Musical Kanned Tomatoes – brain.fm

While I haven’t been the best at adhering to it, I’m still a big fan of Kanban and Pomodoro techniques for keeping myself organized and productive. I like it enough to have written about it and even made a tool to help. Another big aspect that helps me with my workflow is music. I tend to bounce around a bit between Electro House, Trance, Ambient, and even Gregorian Chant. However, I’ve found a new resource that is worth adding to the tool belt.

Introducing Trellodoro – Trello + Pomodoro = Personal Kanban Bliss

I’ve been on a quest to make the and the Pomodoro Technique work for my day to day programming needs. I’ve tried not once, but two times to make things work and I think I’m finally making progres..

Both times, I kept coming back to Trello as the place where I like to keep my personal kanban board. However, I didn’t have a way to store my Pomodoro iterations on the cards without modifying descriptions, and losing a bit of time along the way.

However, thanks to the Trello API, this can now be done easily through the use of Trello’s “stickers” feature. One clock sticker indicates one “pomodoro” completed. I can easily update the cards from within my own timer and move on to the next.