9/28/202512 min read

Time Management with Pomodoro: A Practical Playbook

Use Pomodoro to plan your day, batch shallow tasks, protect deep work, and estimate time accurately.

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Time management improves when you constrain work to visible blocks. Pomodoro makes time tangible and tradeoffs explicit.

Daily Blueprint

  • Morning: 2–4 deep-work pomodoros.
  • Midday: 1–2 admin batching pomodoros.
  • Afternoon: 2 deep-work pomodoros + review.

Track how many pomodoros tasks actually take. Your estimates get better quickly.

Weekly Review

  • List wins and bottlenecks; adjust next week’s ratios.
  • Protect 2–3 half-days for deep work in your calendar.
  • Batch meetings to one day where possible.

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