Posts Tagged ‘task’

Are You Building It Up Or Breaking It Down?

When it comes to thinking about projects - do you spend more time building them up in your mind or breaking them down? When you put up a rig for a show - props, a speaker rack, or a large projection screen for example - thinking ahead about the strike can impact how you put it up. If you're spending a lot of energy building up a project… Continue reading

January 17 2007 | By Tony | Tagged: action, breaking-down, chunking, project, task, thinking | 1 comment»

ToDoList 5 Offers Powerful Task Management

ToDoList 5 for Windows offers powerful task management for users. ToDoList is a "tree-based task manager with native XML support for custom reporting." ToDoList is a rare form of task management tool, one that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean and intuitive user experience. ToDoList has been in continuous development for the last 3 years and is an ongoing project. Your tasklists are… Continue reading

January 17 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: lists, Productivity, software, task, todo, windows | 4 comments»

Template: Emergent Task Planner 2007

David Seah has released an update on his Emergent Task Planner, which is a form to plan and track your time using time boxing technique. Break down your day into separate time periods, and deliver and perform the work by the deadline:So what is Emergent Task Planning? It’s a more directed version of Emergent Task Tracking, which is the form that helps you figure out where your time… Continue reading

January 5 2007 | By Leon | Tagged: planner, task, template | 2 comments»

Granularity for students

People who think about hacking their lives and their work often speak of "granularity." It's a curious word. The online Oxford English Dictionary offers only "granular condition or quality" as a definition. A more helpful definition comes from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications: "The extent to which a larger entity is subdivided. For example, a yard broken into inches has finer granularity than a yard broken… Continue reading

November 29 2006 | By Michael | Tagged: Productivity, strategy, task | 26 comments»

Course of Actions – Task Flow Mapping Your Day

One of the things I've found when listing out tasks and actions, is the difficulty of organizing a list into a logical flow. Most of my day is filled with tasks that I need or want to complete in a specific order, and I wanted a simple way to map out the flow of my day. When I set out to find a way to do this, I had several… Continue reading

October 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: flow, Productivity, task | 42 comments»

Keep Your Feet on The Ground While Deciding Time-Frame For Your Goals

Any task that you take on needs a deadline and so do the tasks that you need to accomplish to reach your goal. Deadlines allow you to concentrate on the job at hand and not let time just drift by. If you don’t set timelines you are likely to realize that many weeks have passed by and you don’t really have any work to show for them.However, there are… Continue reading

October 3 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: deadline, goal, task | 2 comments»

GTD? Try WNTGD Instead

I'm amazed at the number of postings and advice articles, let alone pieces of software, that are spawned by the GTD phenomenon. To me, it's yet another symptom of today's short-term mentality and our obsession with activity. Getting Things Done is useful, of course. I'm not without sympathy for people with bulging schedules and huge to-do lists, who seek a better way to organize themselves. But I think they would… Continue reading

September 11 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, breakthrough, checklists, firstthingsfirst, focus, gtd, Lifehack, objective, procrastinating, procrastination, task, timemanagement, todo, vision | 14 comments»

Simple Steps on Handling Tasks

Fast handling of things has been the talk of the various categories of the work force for years and years. The basis of fast handling of tasks is time and mind management. It really boils down to these 2 major resources that we all have but tend to over (or under) use. The technique we will discuss here is how manage your time against your mind’s concentration in 5 simple… Continue reading

December 7 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: Management, Productivity, task, todo | 5 comments»

6 Reasons on Why are You Procrastinating

Everyone procrastinates at some time in their life. As a self employed writer, I am certainly guilty as charged. I have spent many evenings cleaning the kitchen or folding the laundry instead of working on projects with looming deadlines. Through experience I have learned that there are many reason why I, and others, procrastinate and understanding these reasons has given me a new perspective on how to… Continue reading

December 6 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: article, motivation, procrastination, task | 31 comments»

What’s your next action?

We are now living in the hard-to-focus world. Everybody and everything wants our attention.Therefore our attention span is getting shorter and shorter (9 seconds according to research at MIT). This is much shorter than 8 uninterrupted minutes for our brains to be creative.As a result, we tend to forget our next actions ("WHAT was I doing?"). To avoid this, I used to use "Get back

November 2 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: task, tracking | 4 comments»

Sample Implementation of Bubble Map

ASurroca has a sample implementation on bubble map (idea was which invented by Taguchi-san at IDEA*IDEA.). ASurroca has expanded the idea to have some smaller bubbles sticking with bigger bubble to represent the smaller tasks or milestones within the project and the project respectively. He also has some line connectors to represent the relationship between different task: My Bubble Map - [ASurroca @ Flickr]… Continue reading

October 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, Productivity, task, track | 2 comments»

Ask Readers: How Can I remove a microblock?

Lifehack.org reader, Mark Roggenkamp asks this question through email:Ever been doing something and have very tiny mental block that either sends you down a different path or causes you to put the primary task off to a later time?I’ve come across this now and again. For example, I was updating my list of projects earlier today and I came across a project that I needed to split into multiple projects… Continue reading

October 18 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: procrastination, reader, task | 3 comments»

Follow up on Bubble Map Todo List Method

On Monday, we have introduced Taguchi-san's idea on his bubble map todo list. He told me today on his further thoughts on his bubble map idea. He slices off the area in the bubble based on the stress you have eased on the task. Psychologically, this give you peace in mind and you will feel more positive as you cross off more area of the task bubble:

October 12 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: list, task | no comments»

How to Bubble Map – drawing your ToDo stress-free way

Taguchi-san has invented with an alternative way on representing a todo list. It is called Bubble Map. He uses a bubble (a circle) to represent an instance of task. He draws the bigger bubble if the task is a higher priority, respectively smaller bubble if the task is less important:

... This often happens to me (and you?), so I looked into the problem deeply. Then I realized… Continue reading

October 10 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: graphical, gtd, task, todo | 9 comments»

GTD + Tracks + Moleskine = a Hipskine

Minezamac has a very detailed tutorial on combining GTD methodology with Tracks and Moleskine. What Minezamac has suggested is to use Tracks to keep track of all of your tasks, and use moleskine planner to keep track of your appointments. You can then print out your tasks from Tracks' TXT export and slip it into moleskine's back pocket. Very portable and elegant:

... For me, GTD… Continue reading

September 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, hipster, moleksine, Productivity, software, task, track | 3 comments»