Time management under your terms.
I found that the Pomodoro technique breaks my flow when I'm successfully immerse in a certain task.
Some people suggest changing the amount of intervals and try out things like 35/5, 50/10 or 45/10, But this hasn't proven to be effective for me either.
Flow is a minimalistic time-management tool that helps you maintaining a good balance among activity and rest. While you are working, you are earning time to rest later. If you start feeling tired, you can take a break and the time counts down. Flow gives you feedback on whether you are working too much, or resting more than enough.
Flow is excellent if you want to be highly productive and in a flow state, while keep a good balance between activity and rest. However, this same flexibility makes Flow not so good as a planning technique, something Pomodoro is good at.
If you are a programmer or a designer, and like me, you perform better when deeply immerse in what you are doing, then Flow is for you!
Here you are:
You can customize the duration of the work phase and the rest factor.
The default one is thought for cycles up to one hour of work and a rest factor of 30%, which is the same as if we customized flow this way:
http://flownow.herokuapp.com/?limit=1hour&factor=0.3
For demoing the UI, the following one is configured with a limit of 30 seconds working and a rest factor of 50% (rest half of the time):
http://flownow.herokuapp.com/?limit=30seconds&factor=0.5
Another cool thing about flow, is that it's really easy to add different ways of interacting with it. The bubble is the default theme, but you can easily create a different one:
http://flownow.herokuapp.com/?theme=chronometer&limit=60seconds&factor=0.2
Any idea or feedback to make Flow better is very welcome.
If you want to play around and customize it, fork this:
$ git clone git://github.com/miguelff/flow.git
Make your changes, and if you are proud of them, open a pull-request.
Copyright (c) 2014, Miguel Fernández, Released under the MIT license.
Flow is that cool because of the work done by its contributors: