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Twenty-five minutes is the pomodoro, and it is the most common focus block in use for a reason that has little to do with the number. It is long enough to reach the part of a task where you stop thinking about the task, and short enough that a person who does not want to start can still be talked into one.
Outside of desk work it turns up everywhere: the second proof on bread, a batch of biscuits at a low temperature, the amount of practice a music teacher will ask a child for without an argument.
The tip that matters most: when something occurs to you mid-block (an email, a search, a thing you forgot), write it on paper and keep going. The value of a fixed block is that it makes interruptions visible instead of invisible, and a list of six things you did not chase is the proof that the twenty-five minutes worked.
Start with the button or the space bar. Nothing is stored on a server, and the site never asks who you are.
Five minutes is the usual pairing, and a longer one of fifteen to thirty after four blocks. The point of the short break is to stand up, not to check anything.
Stop. A block that ends early is a block that worked. Sitting out the remaining minutes to satisfy the clock teaches you to pace yourself to the timer instead of the task.
There is no account and no session history. This site is a timer, not a productivity record, and anything it did remember would sit on this device only.