Tomato One (formerly Pomodoro One) For Mac

The Pomodoro technique is designed to help you improve your productivity by alternating work periods with small breaks. This way, you should be able to focus better on the task at hand, and come up with better results.

Customary, the Pomodoro technique recommends working for a 25 minutes interval, then taking a break for 5 minutes. Tomato One (formerly known as Pomodoro One) is a small status bar menu app that will help you put in practice this concept.

Upon installation, Tomato One places a small timer in your status bar that displays either the work timer, or the break one: you can easily differentiate between them thanks to the built-in color code.

To actually use the application, you must start one of the two timers. Tomato One allows you to monitor their progress in the status bar, or you can open the app window and visualize the enlarged version.

If you find that the default timers intervals are too long or too short, via Tomato One's Preferences window you get to quickly change their value. This is extremely useful because you get to adjust the technique to match your own rhythm.

Tomato One keeps track of the completed pomodoros, so you will be able to see how many working sessions you have completed each day. As a result, you can easily monitor your progress without having to interact with the app in any way.

If you are looking for a way to become more productive, Tomato One definitely deserves a try: the app includes all the elements required by the Pomodoro technique, while keeping the necessary user interaction to a minimum.

The Tomato One app will monitor your activity on its own, and you can visualize the statistics it records in no time.