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The guide

Everything PomoZentra does, explained plainly — from your first sprint to how the score is actually calculated.

Getting started

PomoZentra is a focus timer with one extra idea: after each sprint, you record what the block actually produced, and the day rolls up into a single honest score. Open the app, pick a role template, and you'll have categories, a starter task list and a weekly plan ready to go.

The whole loop is three moves, repeated: pick one task, focus for one interval, log what you produced. Everything else — the score, trends, streaks — is built from those logs.

New here? Choose the Founder, Freelancer or Creator template on first run. You can change every category, output and number later in Settings.

The Interval timer

Focus runs as a capsule that fills toward the end of the sprint, rather than an anxious countdown clock. There are three modes:

  • Focus — the default 25-minute work sprint.
  • Short break — 5 minutes between rounds.
  • Long break — 15 minutes, taken automatically after every 4 focus rounds.

Every duration is adjustable in Settings, as is the long-break interval. You can auto-start breaks, auto-start the next round, and auto-select the next task — or keep a hard manual stop so finishing a sprint is a deliberate act. A gentle alarm marks the end of each interval, with a choice of tones, an adjustable volume, optional repeat, and optional desktop notifications.

PomoZentra.
126 ptsAM
Round 13 / 16
2
5
0
0
You don't need motivation. You need a timer.
PROGRESS 0%
The Interval timer. Three modes, the round counter, and the capsule that fills as the sprint runs — the calm surface you'll spend the day on.

Tasks & the queue

Your day is a short queue of tasks. Each task has a title, a category, and a target number of rounds. A task can be a one-off or recurring — daily, weekdays, or weekly on chosen days — and recurring tasks rebuild your queue automatically each day.

Mark one task as your must-win for the day. As you log rounds, a task moves from active to done; close out the day and any unfinished tasks are recorded honestly as partial or skipped, without touching your output score.

The Day Start ritual

The Founder template ships with a guided Day Start: review yesterday, pick today's three outcomes, choose your first priority block, and remove friction. It's a five-minute admin task that sets the shape of the day.

The six categories

Every sprint is tagged to exactly one category. Categories are how the score tells valuable work from comfortable work.

CategoryCoversRole in the score
RevenueSales, outbound, offersPriority — scores high
DeliveryClient work, shipping productPriority — highest base
AdminInbox, ops, billing, planningNecessary — capped
LearningStudy tied to a real goalCounts, modestly
PersonalErrands, family, fitnessLogged, no penalty
WasteScrolling, doomloopsHonest log — costs points

You can rename categories, change colours, add custom buckets, and mark which ones count as priority. Personal and Waste always exist so there's an honest place to put everything.

Output logging

When an interval completes, the round-log opens. Outputs are scoped to the finished task's category, so you only see the units that matter — for a Revenue block that might be cold emails sent, replies received and calls booked.

Each output type carries a score weight. You define the ones that matter to you; a sensible default makes a booked call worth far more than a sent email. You also rate the round — yes, partly or no — which feeds the focus side of the score.

Nothing to count this round? Leave a one-line remark and the focus still counts. Output tracking is opt-in — the score works focus-only until you add outputs.
PomoZentra.
126 ptsAM
Log this roundRevenue · 25 min
Cold emails sent×2
12
Replies received×2
3
Calls booked×8
1
How did it go?YesPartlyNo
The round-log. Outputs are scoped to the block's category, each carries its weight, and a one-tap rating feeds the focus side of the score.

How the score works

The daily score combines two honest signals: results (the weighted output you logged) and focus (showing up for the plan you set). Each completed round earns a base value by category, and logged outputs add on top.

Base value per round

  • Priority categories (e.g. Revenue): +4
  • Delivery: +6 — the highest base, because shipping is the job
  • Learning: +4
  • Personal: +2
  • Other non-priority work (e.g. Admin): +1
  • Waste: −6 — the only thing that pulls the day down

Outputs on top

Logged outputs multiply by their weight and add to the round. A round never scores below its category base, so logging is always safe — it can only help an honest block.

Relative to your plan

Your daily target isn't arbitrary. From a weekly goal and a typical day, PomoZentra derives a target such that completing your own plan lands you exactly on it. Over-deliver and you climb past target; coast and the gap is visible. An admin-overload warning fires when low-value work creeps past your cap.

How this round scored
Category — Revenue (priority)
+4
Calls booked  ×8 × 1
+8
Replies  ×2 × 2
+4
Waste penalty
0
Round score16
A worked example. Base value by category, plus each logged output times its weight. A non-waste round never scores below its base.

Streaks

A streak counts consecutive days where you hit your daily round target — by default 12 focus rounds. Waste rounds don't count toward it. The streak is a quiet nudge, not a guilt machine: miss a day and it simply resets, with no shaming and no lost history.

Weekly rotation

The rotation planner lets you decide the shape of the week in advance: how many sprints each category gets, per day. A founder week front-loads outbound Monday and Tuesday, protects a deep delivery block on Wednesday, and caps admin at one round a day.

Save the plans you like as named templates — up to ten — and switch between them as seasons change (a launch week looks different from a delivery week).

PomoZentra.
126 ptsAM
DayPlanned roundsTotal
Monoutbound push
8
75% rev
Tue Todayoutbound
8
63% rev
Weddeep delivery
8
25% rev
Thubalanced
8
63% rev
Friship + plan
8
75% rev
The weekly rotation. Pre-allocate rounds per category per day. Save the plans you like as named templates and switch them by season.

Role templates

Templates are a fast, sensible starting point. Each one seeds categories, a starter task list and a weekly rotation:

  • Founder — Revenue, Delivery, Admin, plus a Day Start ritual.
  • Freelancer — Sales and Client work as the two priorities.
  • Creator — Content, Audience and Monetization, with Content carrying the highest base.
  • Custom — the core buckets and an empty plan to build from.

Switching templates re-seeds your plan; your logged history is never touched.

Settings

Settings is where the defaults become yours:

  • Timer — focus / short / long durations, long-break interval, auto-start behaviour.
  • Targets — daily round target, daily score target, weekly goal, admin cap.
  • Sound — alarm on/off, tone, volume, repeat, desktop notifications.
  • Display — 12 or 24-hour clock, a custom day-reset hour for night owls, category labels, and optional focus mantras.
  • Categories & outputs — rename, recolour, reweight, add or remove.

Sync & privacy

Sign in with Google to sync your workspace across devices. When you're offline or sync is unavailable, a local fallback keeps the app open and the timer running, then catches up when you reconnect.

Your data is yours: portable by design, exportable any time, and never sold. For the full detail, see the Privacy Policy.

Looking for the short version of the philosophy behind all this? Read Output, not hours.