The tomato timer (photo below) is how Francesco Cirillo got inspired to invent the time management system known as the Pomodoro Technique. Tomato-shaped kitchen timer set at 25 minutes to fight ...

If you’re a fan of the Pomodoro Technique, you’ll be interested in Tomates Time Manager. Version 4 is a great-looking menu bar app with detailed reporting, Touch Bar support, and a handy Today ...

My problem was I didn’t know how. Surprisingly, my answer was a tomato timer. Pomodoro timers are a tool used with the Pomodoro Technique. Developed in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo ...

He took a tomato-shaped kitchen timer (hence the name Pomodoro) and found that if he broke tasks into 25-minute sessions, now known as Pomodoros, followed by a 5-minute break, and then took a ...

Every 4 Pomodoros take a longer break Chromodoro is a small Google Chrome extension that puts a little Pomodoro tomato in the toolbar. Clicking the icon starts the timer and when the time is up a ...

But when I returned to the States to try to recreate the pomodoro I had in Como, I found that I preferred a longer cook time when working with fresh tomatoes (and all their liquid), around 40 to ...