If you're not intentional about how you spend your days, it's hard to get anywhere except by accident.

The Intentions Format lets you quickly enter your intentions for the day, indicating which goal each task goes towards by starting that line with the number of the goal.

For miscellaneous tasks, you use some other symbol, conventionally an ampersand (&) or a tilde (~) but you can be creative and use symbols like $ or ♫ or ♥ if those seem more appropriate.

You can also indicate that a task goes towards multiple goals by separating their numbers by commas, e.g. 1,2) hike with Kate might go toward both a fitness and a relationships goal.

Have tasks you want to do every day? Or maybe just habits you want to track, like "get up before noon" or "drink at least 20 cups of water?" You can add these to your list of Daily Defaults by pressing the grey below the intentions box.

In order to not swamp you with these items, they don't automatically get added to your list every day. Instead, during the intentions-setting phase, you get to push a button () to add them, and then you can edit them if certain ones don't make sense that day.

Tips

You can put an extra ( before the number, which is an informal way to make the daily intentions look less punchy and more remindery. It doesn’t get parsed as anything special at the moment, though it might!

Some users also like using ~ for miscellaneous in dailies, instead of &. It’s smaller and seems more like a structure than a specific thing I have to do. See the examples below.

Include something about getting up on time. If you set your intentions the night before, add something like (~) get up without snoozing my alarm. Or, preventatively, (~) turn off my computer at 11pm.

Want to practice a new style of working? Add something like (~) use pomodoros or (~) no email before noon.

Super secret tip: include [__] in your intention and it’ll get highlighted in your outcomes to remind you to specify what you did more precisely. Use this for simple tracking, like (2) email at least 3 leads: [__] or (7) do a workout: [__].

Like the (, nothing special happens with these values, but again, maybe it will soon! (Like they could be graphed or sent to Beeminder or something)

Here's how it works: pick a task to work on.
Work for 25 minutes
If anything tries to interrupt you, don't let it. Write it down if it's a thing you need to do later. If you let something distract you, you have to reset the timer. Focused work is important.

Then...
Take a break for 5 minutes
Actually take a break! Even if you're right in the middle of something! Being in the middle means it's exciting to come back, unlike if you break when you're stuck, and then it's tough to come back.

When the break timer ends, start another 25 minute work timer. Repeat. Every 4 or so, maybe, take a 20 minute break.

Features:

• continuous & one-off mode
• custom work & break lengths (easy to change)
• custom long-break frequency & length
• optional ticking sound while the clock is running
• multiple ending sounds
• desktop notifications
• assign completed pomodoros to tasks
• share your clock with friends so they know when to message you (or can work together)