A couple of days ago, I made a simple addition to my Pomodoro timer. To better keep track of work done in a given day, I edited my daily notes template of my Obsidian journal to include a table with a row for each pomodoro interval, explaining what I did during that interval:
---type: research journalpomodori: ---# Tasks of the day| Hours | Task || ----- | ----- |# Topics- # Ideas and Insights-I now keep track of when a new interval starts, and write a new row after each interval ends. This row includes:
- The start and end time of the interval
- Space for a one-sentence summary of what I did during that interval
START_TIME=$(date +%H:%M)ENTRY="$JOURNAL/$(date +%Y-%m-%d) Research Journal.md"⋯ NEW_ROW="| $START_TIME — $(date +%H:%M) | ⋯ |"sed -i "s/# Topics/$NEW_ROW\n# Topics/" "$ENTRY"A short and quick addition, but I’ve noticed that it helps me keep focused on one specific task during each 25-minute interval, for now. As an example:
| Hours | Task |
|---|---|
| 09:02 — 09:27 | Literature review on [[Complex Systems|DES]] #phd |
| 09:34 — 09:48 | Reading [[🔴 (Zimmermann, 2008)]] #phd |
| 10:48 — 11:16 | Reading paper draft #paper |
| ⋯ | ⋯ |