Keep Focused - Lightweight and Convenient Pomodoro Timer

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Meet Keep Focused is a wonderful medicine that will make you work without being distracted by social networks and cats. Apply every hour throughout the working day. Has no contraindications and side effects for your computer.

The main reason for procrastination when working at a computer is the incredible ease with which there is a transition from work to play. The distance from a boring spreadsheet to a site with funny pictures is exactly one mouse click, and the time to move from “work” to “hover” takes no more than a second.

In these difficult conditions, there is nothing else to do but to build artificial barriers that at least slightly differentiate our productive activity and entertaining passivity. The Pomodoro technique solves this problem and suggests focusing on work for 25 minutes, and then allowing yourself to relax for as much as 5 minutes. We have already many times about this wonderful method and about convenient tools (1, 2) for its implementation.

The tiny utility Keep Focused is a simple timer for Pomodoro's schedule. This program does not require installation and is distributed as a single executable file. After launching it, a dialog box will appear in front of you, prompting you to enter the name of the task being performed. All data on labor activity during the day will be saved in a log file, which is stored in the directory of your documents by default.

The timer itself is presented in the form of a miniature black panel with a digital time indicator, pause and close buttons. You can position it anywhere on the screen so that it does not interfere with you, but clearly reminds you of the need to focus on the current task.

After the end of the 25-minute interval of productivity, a pop-up window appears, and then immediately the countdown of the time for rest begins. Please note that, as recommended by the classic Pomodoro technique, the flange segment cannot be interrupted (the principle of the indivisibility of tomatoes), so you have to work, willy-nilly, without distraction.

Keep Focused comes in handy for all users who need a simple and lightweight timer to work with the Pomodoro technique. Unlike many competitors that run only in a browser or are bulky time tracking systems, it is compact, simple and consumes almost no system resources.