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No long breaks for 50/10 timebox

Open DonaldTsang opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

The app does not have an option to switch off the long breaks when I need to. See:

  • https://www.softwaremeadows.com/posts/the_50-10_time_box_revising_pomodoro_for_software_development/
  • https://programmingzen.com/getting-stuff-done-with-the-pomodoro-technique/
  • https://boomtownaccelerators.com/timeboxing-the-most-amazing-tool-ever/
  • https://litemind.com/time-boxing/
  • http://johnwrichardson.com/50-minute-solution-live-longer-get-done/
  • https://github.com/rkulla/unitaskr

DonaldTsang avatar Dec 25 '19 19:12 DonaldTsang

I went through the links you shared. What I understand is that you don't want the long breaks at all, and all pomodoros should be 50/10.

Two thoughts on how you could work around this for now, please correct me if I'm wrong though,

  • Set the long break duration in settings to 10 mins, or
  • Set the rounds value in settings to a high number so that the long breaks won't be triggered

In terms of an enhancement on the app side, @Splode do you think it would make sense to allow users to set the rounds to 0 (or infinity?) which would disable the long break entirely?

johnjacobkenny avatar Sep 23 '20 12:09 johnjacobkenny

@johnjacobkenny,

do you think it would make sense to allow users to set the rounds to 0 (or infinity?) which would disable the long break entirely?

I think this could be a decent short-term solution.

Splode avatar Sep 24 '20 21:09 Splode

I have been using Pomotroid this way but configured it the other way round:

  • set the long break duration to 10min
  • set the rounds to 1

This means that the short breaks will never be triggered and you only switch between focus and long break.

fmeyertoens avatar Mar 10 '21 10:03 fmeyertoens