I'm working my way through the
Pomodoro Technique. I have not gotten far yet, but I'm already impressed:Employing easy-to-use, unobtrusive tools reduces the complexity of applying the Technique while favoring continuity, and allows you to concentrate your efforts on the activities you want to accomplish. Many time management techniques fail because they subject the people who use them to a higher level of added complexity with respect to the intrinsic complexity of the task at hand.
... which more or less describes my general aversion to time management systems.
If the method is what I think it is, then the times when I had unsystematically applied the method works.
Namaste