How Pomo Zentra works — and why every piece exists.
A walk through the whole app, feature by feature. For each one: the problem it solves, the thinking behind it, and exactly how to put it to work in your day.
A flip-clock timer that makes focus physical.
Founders don't lack hours — they lack uninterrupted ones. The timer turns vague intent into a finite, 25-minute ask you can actually start, with a hard stop that actually makes you stop.
A 25-minute commitment is small enough to begin even when you're avoiding the work, and a running clock turns vague dread into a concrete, finite ask. The hard stop protects the break that keeps you fresh.
We kept the proven 25/5 cadence but rebuilt the face as a tactile flip clock, so one glance tells you a block is live. A rotating mantra sits underneath to kill the “what should I even do” stall before it starts.
- Pick a mode — Focus, Short break or Long break.
- Hit Begin and don't touch anything until the bell.
- The line under the clock shows the one task this block is for.
- Use Skip to end early and still log what you got done.
50/10 deep delivery work · tight 15-minute outbound bursts · a single “just start” block when you're stuck.
A queue that forces one decision before the clock starts.
A timer with no plan is just busywork. The queue makes you answer the only question that matters before you press start: what is this block for?
Numbered, single-line tasks keep the day honest and small. Each one carries a category, a target number of rounds, and a note for success criteria — so you commit to the work, not just the time.
An editorial list, not a sprawling board. The active task gets an amber rail and drives the timer. An “Over plan” flag appears the moment a task eats more blocks than you budgeted for it.
- Add a task, tag its category, set target rounds.
- Click a task to make it active — the timer points at it.
- Check it off when done; the header tracks done / total.
- When “Over plan” shows, that's your signal to stop.
A morning planning ritual · capping admin at one round · keeping a sales task pinned as the active block.
When the bell rings, log what the block actually produced.
This is the whole idea. A normal timer rewards sitting still; we ask what those 25 minutes made — emails sent, replies, calls booked. That's what turns time into a score.
Eight tomatoes is eight tomatoes whether you closed a deal or colour-coded a spreadsheet. Logging real units is the one thing a plain Pomodoro timer is missing for founders.
The modal pops the instant a block ends, while the work is fresh. Tracked outputs are one tap each; anything that doesn't fit becomes a free-text remark so real work never goes uncounted. An estimated score previews the reward.
- Tap the outputs you produced this block.
- No match Switch to Note · remark and write what you did.
- Hit Log & break — the block is banked and your score updates.
18 cold emails + 2 replies in one tap · logging a contract review as a remark · recording a call that slipped to Thursday.
Six categories, so the score can tell the truth.
Not all focus is equal, and the most comfortable work is rarely the most valuable. Categories let your score reward what built the business — and refuse to be impressed by a busy-looking calendar.
Inbox feels productive. Tweaking the landing page feels productive. Meanwhile the pipeline quietly empties. Weighting categories is how the number stays honest about where your best hours went.
Revenue scores ++, Delivery +, Admin is capped at 0, Learning and Personal are neutral, and Waste costs you. Honest logging — including the doomscroll — is the point; a fudged number helps no one.
- Every task and block lands in one category.
- Check the weight column to see how each one scores.
- Log waste honestly — it's the only way the score stays real.
Seeing a “productive” day was 50% admin · proving a Friday was genuinely revenue-heavy · catching a post-call doomscroll.
One honest answer: was today actually good?
Hours can't answer that question. Output can. The Today report rolls every block up into stats, a time-allocation bar, a full timeline, and a single biggest-leak diagnosis.
You should be able to stop guessing whether you had a good day and simply look. The recap separates effort from progress so the answer is unambiguous.
Four stats up top, an allocation bar for the day's shape, then a block-by-block timeline showing each output and its score. The Diagnose panel names the single biggest leak so tomorrow has a target.
- Open Report → Today at day's end.
- Scan the allocation bar for the day's shape.
- Read the timeline to see which blocks paid off.
- Act on the biggest-leak callout tomorrow.
End-of-day review · spotting that admin opened your morning · confirming you hit your calls target.
One day is noise. A week is a pattern.
The Week tab shows the shape of your output across seven days and names — in plain language — what worked and what broke, backed by the receipts.
Good and bad days average out; the pattern is what you can actually change. Seeing the week as a whole turns hunches into decisions.
Stacked columns per day with today highlighted, then three wins / three leaks written like a coach would say them, and a receipts table of the numbers that decide whether the week was a hit.
- Open Report → Week every Friday.
- Double down on wins; fix exactly one leak.
- Read the output × day table as your scoreboard.
A weekly review ritual · planning next week's rotation · catching a midweek delivery hole.
Every output, against its target, at a glance.
Sometimes you want the numbers by output type, not by day — how many cold emails, replies, and calls you actually produced, and whether they hit target.
Targets only mean something if you can see the gap. The board makes “did I send enough?” a five-second answer instead of a guess.
Big-number cards grouped into revenue output, conversion signals and delivery, each turning green when it hits target — plus a heatmap table to spot which days you really moved.
- Open Report → Outputs.
- Watch numbers turn green as they cross target.
- Use the heatmap to find your strongest output days.
Holding a 30-cold-email/day goal · watching reply → call conversion · proving a content cadence.
Design the shape of a great week before it starts.
Good weeks aren't accidents. Pre-allocate blocks per category per day and you walk in already knowing the shape of the day — heavy sales Monday, delivery midweek, a hard ceiling on admin.
Deciding what to work on at 9am, every day, burns willpower you need for the work. A rotation makes those choices once, in advance.
A week grid you design, plus a day designer to fine-tune the active day with +/−. The coach surfaces patterns from your own history — front-load revenue, cap admin at two, hard stop at five.
- Set pomos per category for each day.
- Fine-tune with the day designer.
- Apply to schedule, or duplicate a good week.
Front-loading revenue Mon/Fri · protecting a delivery day · building a repeatable founder week.
Bend the system to your workday — then let it nudge you.
The defaults work, but they're a starting point. Tune the intervals to how you actually work, then set rails that catch the day when it drifts off-mix.
A 25-minute block suits outbound; a 50-minute block suits deep delivery. And the moments you drift — a third admin block, work after 5pm — are exactly when a quiet nudge helps most.
Durations, autostart, sound cues and strict mode for the timer; then guardrails — warn when admin exceeds a threshold, daily revenue and score targets, an honesty prompt on admin overflow, and a 6pm recap.
- Set your real intervals — 50/10, 15s, whatever fits.
- Set the admin ceiling and daily targets.
- Leave the honesty prompt and EOD recap on.
Deep-work 50/10 · capping admin at 25% · an automatic end-of-day score message.
Consistency compounds. Don't break the chain.
The profile makes showing up the headline — a streak you don't want to break, lifetime stats for the long view, and a full year of focus at a glance.
A single great day doesn't build a business; a held habit does. Making the streak the emotional centre keeps you returning on the days you'd rather not.
A “don't break the chain” streak hero, a this-week strip, lifetime totals, and a year-long focus heatmap. Identity over vanity — it's about the habit, not the high score.
- Check the streak to protect the chain.
- Read lifetime stats for the long view.
- Use the heatmap to spot gaps and patterns.
Daily motivation · a quarterly reflection · keeping a sales habit alive through weekends.
Small switches that change the feel, not the function.
One founder's workday isn't another's. Light personalization keeps the tool comfortable without turning it into a settings maze.
The number that motivates you might be your streak, your revenue hours, or your points. Letting you choose what's front-and-centre makes the tool feel like yours.
A short, tasteful set: density, hero stat, a heatmap toggle, an avatar ring, and an accent color. Enough to fit your taste; never enough to get lost in.
- Open Tweaks from the toolbar.
- Pick the hero stat that motivates you most.
- Set an accent that fits your brand.
Compact mode on a laptop · revenue-hours as your hero number · matching your studio's color.