Use Desk Flags to protect your Pomodoro
A bunch of the folks I am working with now have started to use the Pomodoro Technique. This is really cool and a great way to boost productivity.
One of the challenges is people interrupting because they don’t know someone’s in a Pomodoro. So, one compensation (not a solution, just a mitigating technique) is to use … Desk Flags.
- Flag up = ”I’m concentrating – do not disturb.”
- Flag down = “It’s cool to talk to me.”
Here you can see two people working, the closer person has a flag up.
The flags were ordered from DeskFlags.com and they sell this cool 360 degree “click-it” (red and white object in the photos below) that allows one to easily swivel the flags around.
This is how they are mounted.
As I mentioned before, this is a compensation for when people are working solo. An even better compensation is pairing, but that another story…
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Gino Marckx Said,
September 20, 2009 @ 12:16 pm
Cool idea! We already used ‘earphones in’ with the same effect, but flags are so much cooler. Actually it’s kind of a ‘checked out’ state you’re showing. You could combine this with different flag designs for the ‘emotional state’ you’re in: e.g. red flag for being mad about something
Michael Sahota Said,
September 20, 2009 @ 8:25 pm
Funny you should mention that. We were actually talking about using different flags for representing different types of states, but then it started getting too complicated, so we decided to go for a busy flag just to get started.
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