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Single-Tasking Starter Kit

Your one-page playbook to break the multitasking habit. Print it, keep it visible, and retrain your attention one block at a time.

How to Use This

1

Calculate your cost

Use the calculator below to see how much time multitasking actually steals from your week. The number is usually higher than you expect.

2

Pick your peak window

Track your energy for 3 days. Find the 90-minute window where your focus is naturally strongest. That's your single-tasking sanctuary — protect it.

3

Run one Pomodoro tomorrow

One task, 25 minutes, no switching. Use the free timer. The goal isn't perfection — it's proving to yourself that single-tasking works.

4

Fill in your planner

Each evening, write tomorrow's one deep-work task in the planner below. When you sit down, you don't decide — you execute.

🧮 Multitasking Cost Calculator

Hours lost/week: 23.0

📋 My Single-Tasking Rules

Print this. Keep it where you work. Read it when you feel the urge to switch.

⚠️ The Switch Triggers
  • Slack/email notification → "Park it, not now"
  • "Quick question" urge → Write on notepad, stay in task
  • Boredom/discomfort in deep work → Breathe, continue 5 more minutes
  • New tab impulse → Ask: "Does this serve the current task?"
  • Phone vibration → Ignore until batch window
🛡️ The 5 Single-Tasking Rules
  • One task per block. The timer defines the boundary.
  • Park, don't switch. Externalise every urge on paper.
  • Batch the shallow. Email/Slack at fixed windows only.
  • Environment wins. Full-screen, phone away, clean browser.
  • Protect the peak. Hardest work goes in your energy window.
📝 My Decision Rules

e.g. "If it's not the current task, it waits." "If I want to check, I write it down instead." "If it's after my peak window, no deep work."

📅 Daily Focus Planner

Fill in each evening for tomorrow. One deep-work task per day.

Peak Window
Batch 1
Batch 2
Parking Lot

Put It Into Practice

The free Pomodoro Timer enforces single-tasking by design — one task, one timer, no switching.

Open the Pomodoro Timer →

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