Use reward settings and ambience studio to change your flow, Support the channel and check out the videos by clicking the YT button!
Use reward settings and ambience studio to change your flow, Support the channel and check out the videos by clicking the YT button!
The flowtime technique is Zoë Read-Bivens' creativity-friendly evolution of the Pomodoro method. Instead of slicing your day into rigid 25-minute boxes, you work on one task for as long as you're actually in flow — 15 minutes or two hours — and take breaks sized to how long you worked. There is no countdown bullying you, and no minimum session length: the moment you feel your focus dip, you stop, and your break is already earned. This timer makes the method visible: your duck works while you work, naps while you break, and the break bar charges in real time — so "how much rest have I earned?" is always a glance away.
By default we use the creator's own guideline, applied exactly as she wrote it: stop with under 25 minutes of work and you've earned a 5-minute break; stop between 25–50 minutes and you've earned 8; 50–90 earns 10; beyond 90 earns 15. She calls these suggestions, not rules — the point is that your break is always sized to the work you actually did, never to a fixed clock. Prefer the bar to charge gradually as you work instead of jumping at the brackets? Tick "charge continuously" in Reward Settings (ratio-style interpolation between the same anchors). Prefer one simple ratio instead? Flip the mode (default: 1 break minute per 5 work minutes, Super Productivity's popular choice). End a break early and the leftover rolls into your break bank for next time — stopping on time literally pays.
Use Pomodoro (our main timer) when your day is interruptible and you need structure to start. Use flowtime when tasks are unpredictable or deeply creative and a fixed alarm would break your concentration. Many people run Pomodoro for admin and flowtime for deep work — the shared to-do list above follows you between both.
