Pomodoro Focus Sessions

Pomodoro in TimeCampus makes focused work a deliberate, measured ritual: timed focus blocks, prescribed breaks, interruption tracking, and goals with streaks — so deep work gets protected and counted.

Open Pomodoro in the TimeCampus navigation to run sessions.

What you'll learn

• Start focus and break sessions
• Tune durations and behaviour in settings
• Set daily, weekly, or monthly goals
• Read your Pomodoro analytics
• Where sessions show up on your timeline

Session types

Type	What it is
FOCUS	A timed deep-work block — the session that counts toward goals and streaks
SHORT_BREAK	The brief pause between focus sessions
LONG_BREAK	The bigger pause after a set number of focus sessions

Run a session

1. Open Pomodoro.
2. Optionally pick a project or task — the focus block then counts toward that work (see Projects and Tasks).
3. Start the focus session. The page shows the active session and its countdown; only one session is active at a time.
4. When the timer ends, take the break the method prescribes — TimeCampus cycles focus → short break, with a long break after your configured number of focus sessions.

Interruptions

If something breaks your focus mid-session, mark the session interrupted (with a reason if you want). Interruptions are counted per session — honestly. An interrupted session isn't erased; it's recorded as what it was, so your completion rate reflects reality rather than only the good days.

Settings

Go to Pomodoro → Settings to tune the cadence to how you actually work. Settings are per-user:

Setting	What it controls
Focus duration	Length of a focus session (the classic is 25 minutes)
Short break duration	Length of the pause between focus sessions
Long break duration	Length of the bigger recovery pause
Sessions before long break	How many focus sessions before a long break
Auto-start breaks	Start the break automatically when focus ends
Auto-start focus	Start the next focus session automatically after a break
Notifications	Notify when a session starts or ends
Sound	Audible cue at session boundaries

New users get sensible defaults — you can run your first session without touching settings.

Goals and streaks

Set targets to keep the habit alive:

• Goals run on a period: DAILY, WEEKLY, or MONTHLY.
• Each goal tracks current against target — e.g. 20 completed focus sessions this week.
• Goals must have a positive target; edit or delete them as your routine changes.

Analytics

Pomodoro → Analytics rolls your sessions up into the numbers that matter:

Metric	What it tells you
Completed sessions	How many focus blocks you finished
Total focus minutes	The actual deep-work time banked
Completion rate	Started vs finished — how often focus survives
Streak days	Consecutive days with completed focus sessions

Pick a date range to compare periods — a falling completion rate usually points at interruptions, and the per-session interruption counts tell you where.

Sessions on your timeline

Completed sessions take their place in the bigger picture of your day: focus blocks sit alongside meetings, communication, and breaks on your Timeline, and deliberate deep-work blocks are part of what your Focus Score reads.

Roadmap

Adaptive focus protection — TimeCampus learning your rhythms, auto-suggesting focus blocks in your best hours, and easing distractions during them — is on the roadmap. Today's Pomodoro is the deliberate, manual ritual that adaptive protection will build on. See Work Patterns for the rhythm data it will draw from.

Tips

• Attach sessions to a task — the same block then protects your focus and advances your tracked hours.
• Don't chase a 100% completion rate; chase an honest one. Marking interruptions is what makes the metric worth reading.
• Start with a small daily goal (3–4 sessions) and let the streak build the habit before raising the target.

Next steps

• Focus Score — the daily number your focus work feeds
• Work Patterns — see the rhythm your sessions fit into
• Timeline — sessions in the context of your whole day