CherryTomato helps you stay productive using the Pomodoro Technique.
Work in 25-minute intervals of full concentration. CherryTomato helps you by setting your Messenger and Skype status to "busy", letting your friends know not to disturb you until you have a break.
Keep track of your productivity by rating each 25-minute interval. CherryTomato shows you a statistics of your application and website usage to remind you what you have been doing.
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Set your Skype and Messenger status while working -
Evaluate when you are done.
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CherryTomato is a productivity tool that helps you focus and avoid procrastination. It relies on the Pomodoro Technique of concentrating for 25 minutes at a time.
Though this doesn't sound like a big deal, it has been very helpful for me personally and the technique is gaining popularity rapidly around the world. This article gives a good feel for why the technique works so well.
CherryTomato runs on Windows. It is free so go ahead and try it out!. Current version is 0.5
CherryTomato is open source. If you want to look at the code and possibly contribute, go to code.google.com/p/cherrytomato/.
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