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Work in focus blocks with Pomodoro

Pomodoro times focus blocks and breaks for you, chimes between them, can start on a schedule and keeps a tally of your focus time.

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Pomodoro splits your work into focus blocks and short breaks, such as 25 minutes on and 5 off, with a longer break every few rounds. Yardmaster keeps the time and chimes at each change. It is free and runs on your computer only.

Pomodoro lives in the Alarms panel, so turn on Alarms first.

Make a preset and run it#

  1. Click Alarms in the sidebar, then the Pomodoro tab.

  2. Click the settings button in the tab's header, then New preset.

  3. Give it a Name and set the Focus, Short break and Long break minutes and the Cycles until long break (25, 5, 15 and 4 at first). Click Create.

  4. Click the play button next to the preset to start.

While it runs you see the countdown with Pause (or Resume), Skip Phase and Stop.

Start it on a schedule#

Click the schedule button in the tab's header, then New schedule rule. Pick the Day of week, the Start time (local) and the Preset, and click Create. About 30 seconds before that time a notice appears, then the run starts, unless another one is already running.

To pause every schedule for a while, turn off Pomodoro Auto-Start Schedule. Each rule also has its own Enabled switch.

Pomodoro Auto-Start ScheduleSettings, Notifications > Alarms · Default: OnAllow weekday rules to auto-start Pomodoro runs at their scheduled times (turn off to silence the scheduler without deleting rules)Open in YardmasterOpens Yardmaster. Don't have it? Download

Let it quiet your alerts#

With Auto-Enable Focus Mode During Focus Blocks on (it is on at first), Pomodoro turns on Focus Mode for each focus block and turns it off for breaks, so agent alerts wait until your break. Switch Focus Mode yourself during a run and Pomodoro leaves it to you until that run ends.

Auto-Enable Focus Mode During Focus BlocksSettings, Notifications > Alarms · Default: OnWhen on, starting a focus block silences notifications via Focus Mode; breaks release them. Manually toggling the bell icon during a run stops Pomodoro from managing it for the rest of the run. Per-preset overrides still win.Open in YardmasterOpens Yardmaster. Don't have it? Download

See your focus time#

Click the history button in the tab's header for Pomodoro stats: your focus time This week, By project (week), and today's planned time next to what you actually did. Set a preset's Default project to count its runs toward that project.

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