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Pomodoro

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Pomodoro is a time management technique designed to minimise anxiety and maximise your efficiency. 

Basically it involves 25 minutes working sessions, followed by a 3 to 5 minutes break. After each 4 Pomodoro sessions, take a longer break of about 15 to 30 minutes. This has been scientifically proven to boost work morale/efficiency as it helps to prevent you from getting burnt out on your work and becoming distracted.

It’s a great technique and in a way it rewards you for working, you know that once you’ve done 25 minutes of work you can have a 5 minute break to play on your phone or whatever you want to do. Then once you’ve done a couple of sessions you can have a longer break.

It all started from a Tomato shaped kitchen timer that the creator used when he was in University. There are a few different websites or apps you can use for the Pomodoro Technique, or even a kitchen timer if you have one. Just start by searching ‘pomodoro’ on your device app store.

Hold

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Hold believes in working hard for something should be an awesome experience. The app rewards you when you’re focused and not using your phone.


When you want to focus on something, whether it’s work, exercise, relaxing or even just watching TV, open Hold and press Start.

You can join a leaderboard of your friends and even against other college students.

For each 20 minute period you have the app open and are not using your phone, you get 10 points. Offers and rewards change weekly but when I was writing this article you could get a mens razor for 150 points, a free popcorn at Vue cinemas for 100 points or 50% off a magazine subscription.

Class Timetable

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Use Class Timetable to manage your schedule and organize your tasks. Get notifications for upcoming lessons and tasks you need to complete.


Forest

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Want to stop yourself checking your phone every 5 minutes? You need to try Forest.


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