25 minutes duration (Pomodoro length)

SelfControlApp / selfcontrol

:skull: Mac app to block your own access to distracting websites etc for a predetermined period of time. It can not be undone by the app or by a restart – you must wait for the timer to run out.

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25 minutes duration (Pomodoro length) #122

Closed komputist closed 11 years ago

komputist commented 11 years ago

I am a follower of the pomodoro technique. (http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/) In this technique, each pomodoro (aka 'work session') lasts 25 minutes. (For each 25 minute, there is a break for 5 minutes. And for each fourth pomodoro in a row, there is longer break.)

Thus it would be nice to be able to set the selfcontrol blocking to 25 minutes.
Even nicer would it be if it would be possible to set up 4 pomdoros in a row, with 5 minutes breaks between the pomodoros. (That is a 2 hour session with 5 minute breaks each 25 minute.)

BlueMona commented 11 years ago

Once again, seconded.

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:48 AM, komputist notifications@github.com wrote:

I am a follower of the pomodoro technique. ( http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/) In this technique, each pomodoro (aka 'work session') lasts 25 minutes. (For each 25 minute, there is a break for 5 minutes. And for each fourth pomodoro in a row, there is longer break.)

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Thus it would be nice to be able to set the selfcontrol blocking to 25 minutes.

Even nicer would it be if it would be possible to set up 4 pomdoros in a row, with 5 minutes breaks between the pomodoros. (That is a 2 hour session with 5 minute breaks each 25 minute.)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/slambert/selfcontrol/issues/122 .

Mona

slambert commented 11 years ago

Read the FAQ - you can change the duration to whatever you like.

Read the other issues and you'll see this has been requested before.

If you really want it done, you could commission it (hire someone), or code it yourself, or ask and wait for someone else to code your feature. Those are in order of fastest to slowest. :-)

slambert commented 11 years ago

Duplicate: https://github.com/slambert/selfcontrol/issues/25

komputist commented 11 years ago

Thanks for the reply. Sorry for the duplicate. And thanks for the suggestions and tips.

At the FAQ page, I found «Tweaking Max Block Length and Block Length Interval».

On my computer, from the Terminal.app, I ran these commands:

defaults write org.eyebeam.SelfControl BlockLengthInterval 25 defaults write org.eyebeam.SelfControl MaxBlockLength 25

I will check it out, but so far it seems to work.

slambert commented 11 years ago

Saw the other issue – thanks for being thorough…