Focus Session & Pomodoro Planner
Set your focus length, breaks, and cadence, and get a clear plan for the day — total focus time, break time, the split between short and long breaks, and when you’ll finish.
Your focus plan
The long break lands after each completed cycle, so a single cycle has none. There is no break after the final session — you’re done.
How the plan is built
Each focus session is followed by a break, except the last one. Every cadence-th break — the fourth, by default — is a long break instead of a short one, because that is roughly how long sustained attention lasts before it needs a proper reset. The planner counts the breaks that fall between your sessions, adds up the focus and break minutes, and gives you the elapsed time from start to finish.
The focus ratio tells you how much of that elapsed time is actual focus rather than breaks. A higher ratio is not automatically better — skimping on breaks is the fastest way to make the later sessions worthless.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Pomodoro Technique?
It is a time-boxing method: you work in short, undistracted sessions — classically 25 minutes — separated by short breaks, with a longer break after every fourth session. The fixed length turns a vague 'I'll work on this' into a concrete, finishable block, and the breaks keep attention from degrading. This planner lays out any cadence you like, not just 25/5.
Why is there no break after the last session?
A break exists to let you recover before the next block of focus. After the final session there is no next block, so the planner stops the clock at the end of your last focus period. That is also why a single cycle of four sessions shows no long break — the long break would have fallen after the fourth session, which is the last one.
How long should a focus session be?
Twenty-five minutes is a good default because it is short enough to start without dread and long enough to make progress. If you routinely hit flow and resent stopping, try 50-minute sessions with 10-minute breaks. If you struggle to start at all, shorten them to 15 minutes. The best length is the one you actually keep to.
What counts as a real break?
Something that rests the part of you that was working. If you were reading or writing, a break is standing up, looking out of a window, or walking — not switching to email or a feed, which keeps the same attention system firing. The point is to arrive at the next session with fresh focus, and a scrolling break rarely does that.
Educational planning aid only — not medical, psychological, or performance advice. Attention and the right session length vary from person to person; adjust the numbers to what works for you.