What is a Pomodoro Timer?

A Pomodoro Timer is a technique used to increase productivity and decrease distractions. The technique uses a timer to break down work into intervals, traditionally 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. After four working sessions, there is a reward of a long break. Each working interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for 'tomato', coined after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer that the inventor of the technique used as a university student. - Wikipedia

How do I use the PomoXV Timer?

1. Enter your tasks in the task list, including how many work sessions you need to complete it
2. Adjust your settings to maximize productivity for this work period
3. Start working by pressing start
4. Check off completed tasks using the finish task button
5. If you get distracted during a work session, report it using the distraction button and restart your work session
6. During break time, it is recommended to walk around, drink water, and not work to avoid burnout
7. After you finish your work day, check out your stats for the day using the statistics button

What is PomoXV?

PomoXV is a team of driven UCSD students in the Advanced Software Engineering class, CSE 112, taught by Thomas Powell. For this class we were tasked to choose an old project from the CSE 110 Software Engineering class and revamp it, in order to practice practical software engineering in an established code base. The current code base for this project is located here. The previous code base is located here. And finally the previous application is located here.

Notifications - Why and How?

This website uses notifications to alert you when a work session, break session, or long break session is over. This is to ensure you follow the pomodoro technique as closely as possible. If you would like to change your notifications settings and are not sure how, go to this website for Windows, and this website for Mac.

What do the work settings mean?

• Auto-Start Next Timer: Having this setting enabled means that once a work or break session is comlpete, the timer for the next session will automatically start. Having this enabled is recommended for following the pomodoro technique.
• Device Required: This setting is the ultimate distraction avoider. Having this setting activated means once you start a work session, you cannot go back to this application until your work session is complete and you are on break. Moving your cursor during a work session will automatically reset your work session.