How a Pomodoro timer app helped me regain my focus
by Victoria Song from The Verge - All Posts on (#661DZ)
Focus To-Do helped rebuild my shattered attention span | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Focusing never used to be a problem for me. I was the annoying kid who could study for eight to 10 hours at a time without complaint. That continued well into adulthood until I experienced my own series of unfortunate events. In the last four years, my parents and our 17-year-old dog all died in rapid succession from incurable neurodegenerative diseases. It didn't help that it happened alongside a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic. And because I'm a genius, I decided to make digital media my bread and butter, an industry held together by fraying duct tape and brain worms.
Needless to say, I started off 2022 as a hot mess. All that time spent doomscrolling and grieving left my focus in shambles. Things spiraled to the point where I'd...