The problem with the last one is that one needs to remember to enable it, and every now and then in the middle of such a Lockdown I want to check StackOverflow or something.Īn odd technique, which I'll rate at +5: whilst already locked into some mundane but necessary task (e.g. I have several sets of URL patterns: a work-related whitelist that's never blocked, a list of known timesinks that's always blocked and a general '*' glob to for a total Lockdown. LeechBlock helps in general, but has some drawbacks. Wasting time on-line is a problem for me. After a few weeks of feeling slightly incentivised by it I absentmindedly ate the whole bowl. I've tried to use almonds as dog treats at work: 1 almond for each Git commit and such. Resolving to Do Better in The Future: -3. BTW, I use Remember The Milk as my GTD database. I've found the down-to-earth pragmatism of the GTD method helpful when attacking some Ugh fields.
The main benefits of GTD to me is the focus on decomposing projects into actionable chunks, offloading stuff into "a trusted system" to free up cognitive resources, and the notion of thinking at different "horizons of focus".
We still don't have enough people there to guarantee 24/7 coverage. It suffers from frequent disconnects and has no form of keep-alive for quiet periods. Tinychat IMO is not a good piece of software. In terms of the procrastination equation the pomodoro rhythm decreases delay, peer pressure decreases impulsiveness, and social chat during pomodoros increases value. I've found that the easiest formula to follow is to beemind doing at least a little bit of the thing you want to do every day, without quantifying how much you've actually done. These days I'm usually doing 1 month long goals. I've found that the default 1 year goal length is too long for me. Unaided self-reinforcement: +0.7 (SD 0.9)īeeminding +4. Frequently mentioned in conjunction with GTD. A very broad and modular system, with opinions differing on different parts. Getting Things Done (GTD): +2.8 (SD 4.0). Organizing these turned out to be a lot harder than I expected and involved a lot of subjective categorization, so consult the primary sources.īeeminder: +5.3 (SD 1.8).
If you have any suggestions for how to organize this (that wouldn't require huge amounts of extra effort on my part), I'm open to hearing them. I'm not going to provide an initial list due to the massive number of possible techniques and fear of prejudicing answers, but you can look back on the list in the last post if you want. I'll do my best to combine similar techniques appropriately, but it'd be appreciated if you could try to organize it a bit by replying to people doing similar things and/or saying if you feel your technique is (dis)similar to another. Please also say approximately how long you've been using it, or if you don't use it anymore how long you used it before giving up.Įvery so often, I'll combine all the data back into the main post, listing every technique that's been reviewed at least twice with the number of reviews, average score, standard deviation and common effects, as well as links to the relevant reviews.