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The 50/10 timer for deep work

Fifty minutes on, ten minutes off — a rhythm that fits neatly into the calendar hour. This makes it the favorite of people who work in schedule-driven environments: you can block "one focus hour" in your calendar and the timer maps onto it exactly.

The 50 minute block is long enough for programming, design, analysis, and other deep work where interruptions are expensive. Silence notifications, pick a single task, and treat the block as a meeting with yourself.

Your completed blocks accumulate in your garden and streak, giving you a simple honest record of how much deep work you really did this week.