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Productivity tools: Pomodoro application to increase focus and productivity

POMODORO technique is the most popular way to have discipline and boost productivity. Specially in these days, we have too many distractions on internet, phone and others.

It is really important to have ourselves focused on work,personal improvements .

Without focus and discipline , nothing good can be achieved , be it in any field.

To help us make our life easier there are many amazing tools present that can help us ace our work. Few of such tools I have listed here based on my usage and experience:

  1. Marinara: Pomodoro® Assistant
    Platform:
    Browser extension
    Pros:
    – Simplicity
    – Quick access via browser extension icon
    – History of usage stats ( Nice dashboard)
    – No login required
    – Export stats to json,csv
    Cons:
    – No tracking details as per work/personal task categories
    – No Site blocking feature
  1. Habitica Pomodoro SiteKeeper
    Platform:
    Browser extension

    Pros:
    – RPG game style tracker
    – In build todo, habits, daily tasks scheduler (needs login)
    – Amazing points based profiling
    – Has site blocking feature
    – Many advanced features.

    Cons:
    – Looks little complex and effort needed to maintain tasks
    – no categories to divide time spent task for analysis
  2. Pomowork – Pomodoro® and Todo Assistant
    Platform: Chrome extension
    I personally like this a lot due to its simplistic and powerful features.
    Pros:
    – Simple and powerful
    – Has great UI
    – Special feature : Adds a dashboard in browser when a new tab is added
    – todo feature, note features, bookmark
    – Add todo/note from other websites by right click context menu

    Cons:
    – No statistics or report available
  3. Focus Journal ( Windows app )
    Pros:
    – widget in minimized option
    – auto distraction timer
    – statistics
    – Categorized

Explore more tools here:
https://techwiser.com/pomodoro-timer-for-windows/

https://medevel.com/top-10-free-and-open-source-pomodoro-apps-for-windows-macos-and-linux/

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