This is a great idea, which I was just going to suggest myself. You can download this timer that I have been using.... http://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/
One of the great things is that it allows you to set your Pomo length, your break length, and set how often you have short breaks and long breaks.
Here is my idea of implementation. Have a button on the toolbar which allows me to "Work via Pomodoro" Then when I select a task in my list a little "start" timer button appears in the tool bar so that I can start my Pomo. Then when that Pomo finishes the time will be automatically attributed to that task. Sort of an automatic start/stop timer. Then, if you don't change tasks you can "Resume Tracking" and the next Pomo session will go towards it as well. You should also be able to say how you want your breaks tracked. Track them against the task, or not. Some people might consider the 5 minute break time part of the billable hours since you'd be tracking your breaks that way anyway and charging for them. Or, if you choose not to bill that time you can turn it off and it won't be tracked against the timer value that is there.
So if your Pomo is set to 20 minutes then each Pomo will add 20 minutes to the time worked. I agree with #1, that you need a way to estimate your Pomo sessions and report on them to see how you are doing. Or maybe just integrate that will the time estimates based on your Pomo time. Either way would work I think.
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This is a great idea, which I was just going to suggest myself. You can download this timer that I have been using.... http://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/
One of the great things is that it allows you to set your Pomo length, your break length, and set how often you have short breaks and long breaks.
Here is my idea of implementation. Have a button on the toolbar which allows me to "Work via Pomodoro" Then when I select a task in my list a little "start" timer button appears in the tool bar so that I can start my Pomo. Then when that Pomo finishes the time will be automatically attributed to that task. Sort of an automatic start/stop timer. Then, if you don't change tasks you can "Resume Tracking" and the next Pomo session will go towards it as well. You should also be able to say how you want your breaks tracked. Track them against the task, or not. Some people might consider the 5 minute break time part of the billable hours since you'd be tracking your breaks that way anyway and charging for them. Or, if you choose not to bill that time you can turn it off and it won't be tracked against the timer value that is there.
So if your Pomo is set to 20 minutes then each Pomo will add 20 minutes to the time worked. I agree with #1, that you need a way to estimate your Pomo sessions and report on them to see how you are doing. Or maybe just integrate that will the time estimates based on your Pomo time. Either way would work I think.