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This reminds me the Pomodoro Technique. http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/

I bought a pomodoro iphone app and tried it for about a week or so, alas 25 mins was just too short for me.

I generally find 45/20 to be about right balance for me. I now use Vitamin-R (Mac App) to track time/goals.

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I made a similar timer for Emacs - (http://github.com/silentbicycle/zwiebel). You can set the minute ratio.

I generally save the Pomodoro technique for when I've got something I really need to do but really don't want to do. The shortness of the 25 minutes can be quite useful in those situations.

Sometimes I find the shortness of 25 minutes blocks of time works well as a kind of challenge - "holy crap, only 2 minutes to go... got to finish..."

I'm currently using Concentrate (http://getconcentrating.com), and I love it. Checking out Vitamin-R tonight! Thanks for the suggestion! :-)

Wow, that looks amazing. Website blocker and everything. Now that I see it, that just seems like such an obvious solution. Why am I not using this already?

Just looked closer at the rocket company and software, and they do awesome work.

Looks great.....but there doesn't seem to be anything similar for windows.

Selective blocking of the web (HN, reddit) would be important.

I've been trying this with http://focusboosterapp.com/ . It's pretty solid.

According the pomodoro technique pdf "we’ve come to consider the ideal Pomodoro as 20 – 35 minutes long, 40 minutes at the most. Experience shows that the Pomodoro Technique works best with 30-minute time periods" I now have leveled up my pomodoro to the half hour mark, it does wonders.

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