PomoZentraSelling front-loaded, building protected midweek. Plan a normal day, not a heroic one.
Most people who try to track their week honestly build a spreadsheet, fill it in for about nine days, and then quietly stop. The spreadsheet isn't the problem. The timing is.
Logging from memory is guesswork
Filling in a sheet at the end of the day means reconstructing four or five hours of scattered blocks from memory. Everything blurs into round numbers, and the version you write down is the version that felt true, not the one that was.
Two moments you actually know the answer
There are exactly two points in the loop where you have real information: Monday, when you decide what the week is for, and the moment a block ends, when you still remember whether it moved. Everything in between should be free, because the timer was going to run anyway.
That's the whole design decision behind PomoZentra's timing. Planning happens once, briefly, at the start of the week. The honest check happens once, briefly, at the end of every block. Nothing gets reconstructed later from memory.
What this rules out on purpose
It means there's no daily journal to fill in, no end-of-week form to dread, and no feature that asks you to remember what Tuesday afternoon was like. If you didn't answer the question when the block ended, that block just doesn't have an answer, which is more honest than inventing one on Friday.
Key takeaways
- Reconstructing a day from memory produces the version that felt true, not the one that was.
- The two moments with real information are Monday, when you decide, and the end of a block, when you know whether it moved.
- Everything between those two points should stay free, because the timer was going to run anyway.
- A block with no answer is more honest than an answer invented on Friday.
Decide Monday, answer honestly all week
Five minutes of planning is the whole input the rest of the method needs.
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