Keep Focused - easy and convenient Pomodoro-timer
Productivity Vindovs / / December 19, 2019
Meet, Keep Focused - a wonderful medicine that will force you to work without being distracted by the social sphere and seals. Apply every hour during the day. It has no contraindications and side effects for your computer.
The main cause of procrastination at work at the computer that is the incredible ease with which the transition from work to entertainment. The distance from the boring spreadsheet to a site with funny pictures of exactly one mouse click, and the transition from the "work" to "freeze" in less than a second.
In these difficult conditions, nothing else to do but how to build artificial barriers a little delimiting our productive activity and entertainment passivity. Pomodoro technique solves this problem and proposes to focus on the job for 25 minutes, and then allow yourself to relax by as much as 5 minutes. We have many times wrote about this wonderful technique and about handy tools (1, 2) For its implementation.
Keep Focused tiny utility is a simple timer for Pomodoro on schedule. This program requires no installation and is distributed as a single executable file. After its launch in front of you will appear, prompting you to enter the name of the task dialog box. All data on labor activity during the day will be saved to a log file, which is stored by default in the directory of your documents.
Self timer is presented in the form of a miniature black panel with digital display of time, the pause button and closing. You can place it anywhere on the screen so that it would not hurt you, but obviously his presence reminded of the need to focus on the implementation of the current task.
After the end of 25 minutes of productivity segment pop-up window, and then immediately begins the countdown for the rest. Note that, as recommended by the classical method of the Pomodoro, working distance can not be interrupted (the principle of the indivisibility of tomatoes), so that willy-nilly will have to work without distraction.
Keep Focused program is useful to all users who need a simple and easy timer to work on Pomodoro technique. Unlike many competitors who work only in a browser, or represent a bulky time and attendance system, it is compact, simple and hardly consumes system resources.
Keep Focused