Ten minutes, one click: the countdown starts and an alarm rings at the end. It is long enough for a proper break after a long focus block, a quick review before an exam, or one small task you keep putting off.
If you work in blocks longer than 25 minutes, five minutes of rest starts to feel short. The 50/10 rhythm, fifty minutes of work and ten of rest, is one of the most common Pomodoro variations for that reason: it keeps the same ratio of about five to one while giving your mind more room to recover.
Some tasks are too small to deserve a full session but too many to ignore: replying to three messages, booking an appointment, filing two documents. Grouping them into one ten-minute batch keeps them from interrupting your real work all day. When the alarm rings, stop, even if one is left: it goes into the next batch.
Ten minutes is a comfortable length for a beginner meditation or a body scan. Put on the rain or forest sound, start the timer, close your eyes, and let the alarm tell you when you are done, so you never have to check the clock. Pomodorian's article on meditation during breaks has a simple protocol if you want guidance.
Yes, completely. There is no account, no ad and no paid version.
Yes, where the browser allows it: the full screen button enlarges the countdown so it reads from across a room, and Escape brings you back. iPhone browsers do not offer full screen for web pages, so the button does not appear there.
An alarm plays, the one you chose in Pomodorian if you have used the app before, any background sound stops, and the timer rewinds to 10:00, ready for the next round.
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