Posts Tagged ‘task’

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

September 11 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, breakthrough, checklists, firstthingsfirst, focus, gtd, Lifehack, objective, procrastinating, procrastination, task, timemanagement, todo, vision | 12 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

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

December 6 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: article, motivation, procrastination, task | 28 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

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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

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

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:

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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

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

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

Intrusive Alarms and GTD

Martin at TipMonkies has looked into the aspect of how to manage time-specific events in our lives in term of GTD. He talked about it is flawed if one does not have alarm facility in their GTD system:

… I record the information into a device and set an alarm so that it goes off at the point when I must take action (leave for the appointment), maybe even 15 minutes… » Continue

September 9 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: alarm, gtd, Management, task, time | 2 comments»

Multitasking or Chunking

Lisa over Management Craft has written an experience from her on comparing multi-tasking vs focusing. Should you be doing tasks or projects concurrently, or you should leave a bigger chunk of time for you to do one project only (focusing). She found out focusing (she calls it chunking) is more effective:

… I am straddling several large projects right now. All of them important and all of them clamoring for… » Continue

September 8 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: Management, task, time | 1 comment»

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