25 Minute Timer

What a 25 minute timer is good for

Pomodoros. Francesco Cirillo was a student in Rome in the late 1980s when he started timing his study with a kitchen timer shaped like a tomato, and pomodoro is Italian for tomato. His rules fit on a sticky note: one task, no email, no phone.

When it rings you stop, even mid-sentence, and rest for 5 minutes. Every fourth break runs longer, 15 to 30 minutes. The break timer is the 5-minute one in the list below, so you can flip between the two.

Good to know

Keep a tally: one mark per pomodoro. After four, take the long break. Within a week the tally shows how many 25-minute blocks a job really takes, which makes planning much easier.

End times

In other units

Other timers

• 1 Minute timer
• 2 Minute timer
• 3 Minute timer
• 5 Minute timer
• 10 Minute timer
• 15 Minute timer
• 20 Minute timer
• 30 Minute timer
• 45 Minute timer
• 1 Hour timer
• 90 Minute timer
• Timer for any length

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