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The great feeling you get when the task completed is strikethrough when you press the tickmark.
The point of it is more to encourage habit formation; I don't microplan my day, I try to do the same things every day. Wake up, meditate, exercise, code for several hours. When you have a strong routine established, deviating from it feels strange.
I have found limiting recreational internet use to be as important or moreso than any kind of planning for being productive.
nb. I just rewrote the whole frontend so apologies if anything is broken.
Pile of Index Cards, and a very loose set of goals / tasks. https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/u4dgr0tkxk4tk9npuvex5a I find the physicality of cards is highly useful. I could use a better set of categories for specific activities, but that requires some changes to working space and desk. I'm coming to rebel against a tremendous amount of electronic and online tools, as well as find the merits of not only pen-and-paper…
Perhaps once or twice a month, I can actually execute a day planned the afternoon before, so I have largely given up and reverted to a slightly demoralizing reactive mode.
For the last 3 years I've been trying to find a way to organize my life. Before that I was in a rebellious phase, I didn't believe in time management and plans. I thought they caused stress and inefficiency. I thought there was enough time for everything. However, then I crashed and realized that professionalism and proper planning have their place. But I could not and cannot manage to adopt a system. I tried org-mod…
As far as work, I make sure to always finish my day with a thing or two half-started. I find the itch to finish these is far more powerful as a progress driver than a completed checklist that gives me mental permission to relax. Granted, this is definitely not the ticket to work-life balance if that's what you're looking for.
I can't find a source, but I can paraphrase a quote I like: "Never quit for a day when all the tests are passing, always leave yourself something obvious to start with the next day"
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/long-day-day-planner/id10626...
I tried this when I was in uni and it didn't work at all --too many different assignments and I was trying to schedule out my whole day rather than 9:30am-6:30pm.