Keeping focused can be difficult with the constant distraction of emails, notifications, and scrolling social media. In recent years, though, the Pomodoro Technique has proven to be an effective time ...

For those of you who don't know, I wrote an interval timer app for iOS. A feature request is to allow it to run in the background. Apparently people fidget with their Music or Podcast app enough while ...

First created by Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s, the Pomodoro Technique is used all around the world to beat procrastination.

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I'm a big proponent of using focus hacks when you need to buckle down and get work done and most of those rely on some route to going distraction-free and engaging in what's known as deep work. When ...

YouTube is working on implementing a sleep timer for the Android app, according to our teardown. This would allow playback to automatically stop after a specified period of time. The app’s code ...

Apple has frustrated another app developer with arbitrary enforcement of its App Store rules, with Insight Timer CEO Christopher Plowman this week taking to LinkedIn and speaking with TechCrunch to ...

Mary-Elisabeth is an associate writer on CNET's How-To team. She's a recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's English Department, and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the How-To team, she covers a ...

Sitting all day is terrible for your long-term health, so break timer app Moova helps you sneak in exercise breaks. It offers more than 200 targeted exercises for battling stiffness, aches, RSI, bad ...

The CEO of meditation app Insight Timer, Christopher Plowman, is frustrated. He doesn’t think the teachers who leverage his app’s marketplace to reach their students should have to share 30% of their ...

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