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• Veen 8y ago
  When I've tracked pomodoros, the average came to around three hours of productive time. Anecdotal, I know, but I've often thought that it would be nice to squeeze that three hours of work into three hours of clock time. Life would be considerably more pleasant.
  • TeMPOraL 8y ago
    Huh. This is my self-evaluation trick I've been employing for a year or two now. I run pomodoros (standard, 25-min) whenever I'm trying to focus on work, and aim to have as much of them as hours at work. I have three marks here: the bronze standard = 100% ratio, i.e. 8 pomodoros for 8 hours of work. The silver standard is 150% ratio, i.e. 12 pomodoros for 8 hours of work. The gold standard is 200%, i.e. 16 pomodoros for 8 hours of work. Note that even the gold standard is only about 6 hours and 40 minutes, because a pomodoro has 25 minutes. I consider a day in which I hit the bronze standard to be a good day. That adds up to about 3 hours 20 minutes of focused work time, so it's consistent with your result, with the article, and with what I've seen reported around HN. It's surprising how much you actually can accomplish in that time, but I find it frustrating that it can be difficult to get to even that on a regular work day.