Choose a task to be completed, set a tomato time (25 minutes), concentrate on your work during the tomato time until the tomato bell rings, end all things unrelated to the task, then mark the corresponding position in the table, take a short rest (3-5 minutes), then enter the next tomato time, and so on until the task is completed. Every to-do item in a day can be done in this way. After a day's work, according to the records, repeat one day's work and study and plan the next day's time.
Everyone who wants to improve work efficiency
I've heard the saying of tomato timing before, but I haven't studied it carefully. Seeing this book now, intuition is especially suitable for writing articles and correcting papers, which are big tasks without quantitative indicators. Of course, the best way can only be empty talk. So starting from tomorrow, we will try to use it in combination with tomato-related apps, and then feedback the use effect later.
(1) a tomato timer (the author suggests using a timer with ticking sound, which may make people fidgety and anxious in the early stage, but with the increase of execution times, the ticking sound just proves their concentration)
② A notebook (more convenient to collect and organize than a single page): Draw three simple tables every day, namely "Today's Work Schedule", "Activity List" and "Record Document Table".
③ A pencil
(4) an eraser.
(1) Open a tomato time
The smallest time unit is a tomato time, that is, 30 minutes, including 25 minutes of study/work and 5 minutes of rest.
The tomato time of 25 minutes cannot be interrupted or cut. If interrupted by someone or something, this tomato timer will be eliminated and needs to be re-timed.
When the timer rings, it means that a tomato time is finished. You can stop here, put an "X" on today's work schedule and have a rest.
Please relax during the break, don't think about the unfinished work or do something like "call back and send an email sometime"! ! ! You can clean your desk, have a cup of tea and walk around. In short, you need to give your brain some time to digest the information it automatically receives in order to make room for the next tomato time. (key)
(2) once every four tomatoes
Take a rest every four tomato hours, about 15-30 minutes.
(3) Complete a task
Tomato time is followed by tomato time until the task is completed, and then the task is crossed out in the schedule.
For example, the article "If the weather is fine, let's go running" was written in five tomato hours:
Precautions:
When this work is finished, but the tomato bell hasn't rung yet, please continue and then you can resume your previous work.
However, when the work ends 5 minutes before a tomato time, and you don't think it is necessary to check or review the work that has just ended, please void this tomato time at any time, and of course, there is no need to mark it on today's work schedule.
(4) Record files
Beginners: You can just record the time required to complete each job.
The focus of tomato time is not when to finish, but the specific time to finish the work, which is a real effort process.
(5) improvement
The process of archival recording is to help us better examine the efficiency of completing a job.
For example, if I write an article "Let's go running in sunny weather", I need seven tomatoes, which is a bit long. When I write the next article, I will try to get the same quality in a shorter time. So, what should we do? Which stages are missing, which projects are really useful, and how do I know that these projects are effective? ... in short, these problems will promote progress!
The author mentioned that although 25 minutes seems to be a short period of time, it is inevitable to be interrupted when you really start to finish a job with it.
So how to minimize unexpected interruptions and maximize work?
First of all, we need to know what the so-called interruption is.
(1) Internal cause-interrupt yourself.
I want to stand for a while after sitting for a long time, I want to drink water when I am thirsty, and I suddenly remember that I have an emergency call to make ... These are all ways to interrupt myself, which are usually related to inattention.
(2) External factors-others interrupt themselves.
Classmate phone, teacher WeChat ...
(3) So, how to avoid interruption?
Learn to protect your tomato population.
When the arrival is interrupted, for example, if you are hungry and want to eat or a classmate calls, please mark the place where the number of tomatoes is recorded in the worksheet and use "?" As an internal cause. Use "_" to indicate external factors.
(2) At the same time, write it down on the activity list and mark it as "unplanned event". If there is a deadline, please mark it.
For example, when I was at the 1 tomato, it suddenly occurred to me that I had read a similar article on an official WeChat account, but it took me some time to find it and take notes. On the fifth tomato time, I received a phone call from a friend, checked a document and the teacher's WeChat, and filled out a form. The deadline given by the two of them is afternoon. Note: In these events, tomato time has been included. What I need to do is to minimize the interruption time and continue writing until the alarm clock rings.
According to the workload of unplanned work, I spent 1 tomato time reading the official account of WeChat and 1 tomato time dealing with friends and teachers.
note:
Successfully delay the interruption, the later the better, minimize the urgency of the interruption and increase the controllability;
Try to combine the interruption and reduce the number of tomatoes spent on it.
After using pomodoro technique for a period of time, I can try to estimate the number of tomatoes in the to-do list. A task may take 8 tomato hours.
What if there are too many?
If it takes more than 8 hours to complete a task, it means that it is a complex task. What you need to do is to further refine the work content. The smaller the task, the easier it is to understand and arrange.
I suggest using the first tomato time every day to arrange the whole day's tasks. The slightly complicated part can be overestimated and the simple work can be underestimated. In short, as long as the balance between overestimation and underestimation is achieved, the overall process will not be affected.
The first 25 minutes are difficult, and you will gradually become sensitive to them. The last 5 minutes of tomato time will make you feel tired.
In addition to improving work efficiency, the most important thing in pomodoro technique is to make people more motivated.
(1) can complete several tasks that are not too complicated or too simple every day;
(2) make progress every day and feel fresh;
(3) Through constant observation, you can clearly know how you work and how efficient you are.
All you have to do is stick to it and follow the rules of pomodoro technique.
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