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Third Time

• A more structured way of working

A more structured way of working

Whilst researching for different ways to use pomodoro ¹ on Emacs ², I came across this package titled: pomm.el. In this package it had an interesting feature called pomm-third-time³. The ideology behind is as follows:

• You work as long as you want.
• Your break is calculated using the formula: Time of break = 1/3 x Time of work.
• If you take a shorter break, the remaining break time is accumulated and added to the next break (within the same session).

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¹

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

²

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

³

• https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RWu8eZqbwgB9zaerh/third-time-a-better-way-to-work