It didn’t keep my coworkers at bay, but Flipper’s expensive productivity tool did help me focus on the task at hand.

This is the second installment in a series of Science & Research articles addressing widely held beliefs and myths. On any given day at the Sciences Library, a variety of study techniques are on ...

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The Pomodoro method for time management was developed back in the 1980s; the idea behind it is to divide your time into short 25-minute intervals for work and breaks. This is supposed to increase your ...

If you ever find a personal or work task daunting, you might just need to rethink how you approach it. Pomodoro apps and browser extensions can put you back on a productive path. I'm a content ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

This Monday morning, June 23, I received the news of the death of my friend Arnaldo Pomodoro the night before, only a few hours before his 99th birthday. I had known him for almost 20 years and had ...

Ever planned to finish a report or clear a backlog of activities, only to be disrupted by a sudden power cut or end up doom-scrolling on social media? Then you need productivity tools. You need ...