"productivity systems like The Pomodoro Technique are useful when it comes time to execute tasks"
I highly recommend Pomodoro technique (http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/) for greater productivity with less stress.
I highly recommend Pomodoro technique (http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/) for greater productivity with less stress.
I highly recommend this Pomodoro extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/strict-pomodoro/cg...
You set the minutes per cycle and what sites to block. Once a cycle is started it blocks those sites until the timer is up.
I can't "cache in" what I need to to make progress in 25 minutes, so it just meant that I never made progress.
Here is a TL;DR version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
Don't use it for writing and similar things though, the breaks will be noticeable in your output.