Pomodoro Sucks. Try Flowtime (opens in new tab)

Pomodoro is meant for like, hyper-chunkable tasks where you're battling against boredom to do the work. Manually going through files and aligning things, reformatting doc comments, etc. That's good stuff for a pomo sesh. Most people don't use pomo to paint a painting or compose music or tinker an algorithm. It's designed specifically for rote work.

I didn't watch the full video, this seems sensationalized a fair bit for the sake of YouTube algorithm discovery. He's right though. Could've been right and given his position in about 2min instead of 15....

I made an implementation of Pomodoro on my website here: https://www.locserendipity.com/Pomodoro.html. I think this version works better for me than others. You write in the tasks and then mark off each 25 min chunk with a checkbox. Then, I screengrab the tab to see my productivity during the day. This aspect is missing from most other Pomodoro implementations. Also, you can right click and download the page to use offline. It will still work. Part of the problem is the actual Pomodoro method involves breaking down tasks into discrete chunks and checking off completions and most implementations ignore this crucial aspect.

Do any of these strategies actually work for people?

I mean…isn’t this how people tend to work by default? Just adding the journaling aspect which lets you go back and analyze your “data”.