Increase Your Working Time Productivity Using the GNOME Pomodoro App
What is Pomodoro?
Pomodoro is a time management technique invented by Francesco Corillo in 1992. The Pomodoro technique breaks down working time into several sessions that are 25 minutes long. With this technique, you can work more effectively.
You will work within 25 minutes in each session, in those 25 minutes you have to work with focus without needing to think about other things. After the 25 minutes are up, you have 5 minutes to take a break to refresh your mind and then resume work after the break is over. Every 4×25 minutes, you will have a longer break, which is 15 minutes.
Actually you can adjust these times according to the time you need and you think are effective. It’s just that these times are standard times, 25 minutes for work is considered the most ideal time because it’s not too long and not too short, as well as 5 minutes of rest time and 15 minutes of long rest time.
This technique is widely used by people to manage their work time more effectively. To help you use this technique of managing time, you can use the applications available for Smartphone or Desktops.
On Linux itself, you can use an application from GNOME called GNOME Pomodoro.
What is GNOME Pomodoro?
GNOME Pomodoro has many features that help manage your work time using the Pomodoro technique. You can set the time for work, rest and long breaks from the Pomodoro Technique in this application according to the time you need.
When your work time is over, GNOME Pomodoro will display a notification that appears in full screen display along with a notification sound to notify you to take a break so that you are refreshed.
GNOME Pomodoro also has an indicator on menu bar Your desktop, which will display a countdown when you activate Pomodoro, so you can see how much time has passed. From these indicators, you can also do pause, stopperform settings and other things from the GNOME Pomodoro application.
In addition, there are many other features such as turning on the sound of the clock when you are working so you realize you are in time to focus on work, as well as other features.
How to Install GNOME Pomodoro on Ubuntu and Debian
If you are using a Debian and Ubuntu distribution, you can install GNOME Pomodoro via the “.deb” installation package. You can download the installation package from the following GNOME Pomodoro website.
Select and download the installation package of GNOME Pomodoro according to the system you are using. For Ubuntu distributions, file package installation is only available for versions of Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, and Ubuntu 17.04. If you’re using an earlier version of Ubuntu, you’ll need to install it from source code. As for the Debian distribution, the file package the current installation is only available for Debian 8.
Wait for the download process to complete, file package The results of the download will be in the Downloads folder. Then open Terminal by pressing the keyboard combination CTRL + ALT + T on your keyboard or open Terminal via the application menu.
Go to the Downloads folder by typing the following command in Terminal:
cd Downloads
After successfully entering the Downloads folder, you can then install GNOME Pomodoro on your Ubuntu or Debian by entering the following command in Terminal:
sudo dpkg -i gnome-pomodoro_0.12.2-1_amd64.deb
Replace the word “gnome-pomodoro_0.12.2-1_amd64.deb” in the command according to the file name package the GNOME Pomodoro download that you downloaded. Because if you download a different version, the file will also have a different name.
Wait for the installation process to complete and make sure the installation is successful without any notification error. When you’re done, you can start using GNOME Pomodoro to manage your time.
