In addition, the user can temporarily stop or re-allow warnings via the sub menu item Stop step warnings and Allow step warnings, under the Warnings menu item in the Control menu. The user can choose to be warned if he has walked too much during a sprint or hasn’t walked enough during a break. Too many steps during sprints or too few steps during breaks says something about the quality of both the sprints and the breaks. Correspondingly, the app records the number of steps taken during sprints and breaks, separately. The app assumes that it’s a good idea to do some walking during the break. Breaks then would involve standing up and doing something else, e.g. The app is best suited for work done while sitting – studying, clerical work, computer programming, reading, etc. In both cases, we store the sprint minutes spent working on projects for each project separately, just as the number of steps (see below).
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In contrast, switching to another project when using the project-specific time line first results in a synchronization with the app’s time display, and thus there is a waiting time until the beginning of the next full minute. When using the common time line, switching to another project happens immediately – we simply continue with that other project. In the above example, when the user switches to Project 2, the sprint number will change to the current sprint number stored for Project 2. The time line can also be project-specific: each project has its own time line. The only change is that now the sprint minutes are counted for Project 2 and not for Project 1. Thus, for example, if the user starts with Project 1, and during the third sprint switches over to Project 2, the sprint number remains the same. The time line can be common to all projects. The time line is the sequence of sprints and breaks in time. The app allows to define a number of projects in the Settings, and to move freely from one project to another while the app is running. ProjectsĪnother idea is that the user might want to work on a number of different projects every day – for example computer programming for a few hours, then studying for another few hours and then working on a video for some time.
Thus, when the user starts a project sprint, first there is a wait period until the beginning of the next full minute of the time display, at which point the count down of the sprint minutes starts. The count and display of sprint and break minutes is synchronized with the time display.
The display is updated once every minute.
The app displays a count down of sprint and break minutes, and the number of sprints done on the current day. They should be followed by breaks which should involve a break away from the work and doing some other activity. Work periods or pomodoros (called “sprints” in this app) should be focused and continuous, without unnecessary breaks. In this sense there is also a resemblance to the sprint iteration cycles of Agile development – which is where the name of the Pomodoro Sprints app originates from.
The idea behind the app is to help the user break work down into consecutive work and break periods. Pomodoro Sprintsis a Pomodoro-style work management app for Garmin watches, with a number of additional features not usually found in Pomodoro applications.
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