Why a potato?
Because in Mandarin, "todo" sounds like "土豆" (tǔdòu) — potato. We thought the pun was worth keeping. Your to-do list shouldn't feel like a row of cold checkboxes.
Your tasks are potatoes buried in the field.
Every tomato you focus grows them a little bigger.
🍅 Tomato = a focus block
The Pomodoro Technique was invented by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. One tomato is 25 minutes of focused work. 25 minutes isn't magical — what matters is that a visible endpoint makes procrastination harder.
When the tomato ends, you decide which potato it belongs to. That way the record reflects where time actually went, not where you planned it to go.
🥔 Potato = a task
A potato grows underground. It has its own size, deadline, and subtasks. Each tomato of focus grows it a little; when it's grown enough, it's ready to harvest.
TomTato is a real grafted plant — a tomato shoot on a potato root. Tomatoes above, potatoes below, one plant, two harvests. We borrowed the metaphor: focus and tasks share one field.