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Posted by J.J. on July 8, 2010 under Presentations, Productivity, Time Management | 
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Posted by J.J. on October 24, 2008 under GTD, Productivity, Shortcuts, Time Management | 6 Comments to Read
Who would ever think that a frustrated Italian university student – who was having difficulties in managing his heaps of homework and time for study, that could develop a simple timeboxing technique in which originated from a kitchen timer that resembles the appearance of a tomato.
Therefore, that’s the reason why it is called the Pomodoro Technique in which the word “pomodoro” means “tomato” in Italian. It was firstly discovered by Francesco Cirillo in the 80’s for the means of improving personal time management by eliminating distraction and increase productivity.
It was developed when Francesco wanted to maximize the use of his time (perhaps 10 minutes) on his revision since he had several upcoming exams. It didn’t work that well as he expected in the beginning, but he enduringly putting his time and efforts of improving his timeboxing idea in which is comprehensively discussed in present team productivity workshops.
J.J. Yong is a web publisher, blogger, entrepreneur, and science teacher.
He founded Mindshortcut in 2008 to help others reach their goals for personal improvement so that he can share his productivity ideas to more people and continues to develop personal productivity ideas that eventually work for everyone.