I see a "put back" button. Isn't it a synonym for procrastination? :)
I suggest following for at least taking one step away from procrastination.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_mas...
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#22My issue with this method and most other methods, is that I have no good idea on how much time I need to actually allocate to each project/goal.
I work in research, when I start a project I have no really good idea on how many hours I'll have to put into it in order to complete it.
Same goes for some of my personal projects. Let's say, I want to learn Data Analysis in Python... I can't really come up with a good idea about how much time that will take me.
What I actually feel the need (as a procrastinator, which is the target of this product) is to keep tabs that I'm working on something (productively) every day.
Pomodoro method helps me a bit with this, although just as a metric, not really as a day scheduling tool as it was intended.
I would actually like to hear some thoughts about people that also struggle with this and how do they manage to stay productive (productive on their personal point of view).
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#23Nice webapp and UI. (to the author) To state the obvious.. You'll see a lot more people adopt it and stick with it if you layout your vision in a few page tutorial.
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#24Note that the page is completely blank when Javascript is turned off. The front page doesn't looks like it should need Javascript, it's some text and a few gifs.
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#25I've come to realize that no tool is going to help me solve my procrastination problem.
It has to come from within and if I bring myself to stop procrastinating then the tool doesn't matter.
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#26Spinners look broken and some buttons not working on Firefox (Ubuntu).
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#27I've come to realize that no tool is going to help me solve my procrastination problem. It has to come from within and if I bring myself to stop procrastinating then the tool doesn't matter.
this tool looks like a great way for you to waste time instead of doing what needs to be done :)
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#28It'd be cool if it divided the day into 30 minute blocks and you could just allocate the tasks to the blocks. Like a type of paint interface, where you just color the blocks.
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#29I don't see how this differs from a normal calender in terms of killing procrastination? The problem I have is not that I haven't planned correctly, it's that I do not follow my plan.
> I haven't planned correctly, it's that I do not follow my plan. I use Any.do (which I like the UX off a great deal) with Reminders for this, at first it felt like it was nagging the hell out of me since I was snoozing so much stuff but then a strange thing happened, I stopped snoozing stuff and started doing it so I could kill the task if it was a quick task. On the UX side something like that has to be so effortle…
I think you're talking at cross purposes. I sounds like your main problem is that you knew what to do, but forgot to do it. This is different from knowing what to do, but doing something else instead (an issue I am quite familiar with myself, my sympathies to GP).
Todo list apps work great for remembering what to do, but don't solve GP's problem one bit.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's integrated time tracking. If you don't follow through in a day (say you only did 30 minutes of an hour allocated), you can reschedule very easily and down to the minute.
Procrastination is a psychological problem, not a planning problem. Seems like you solve a problem in a wrong way, or you promote your product in a wrong direction. You can say it is a combination of kanban, time tracker, project management or even habitica...blahblahblah, but it is just combination of functions not solving any procrastination problem at all.
>Procrastination is a psychological problem
Yes it is, but some planning tools can help you to break out of it as long as you don't end up using your planning as procrastination.
I've known a few people that were chronic procrastinators I even had some issues with that myself, I eventually outgrew it by using a bit of additional organization but without "religious" adherence to any method.
For some a more strict method which they follow daily works, for others I've seen it can make things worse they use 2-3 planners/organizers and just spend the time they would normally be wasting on procrastination by procrastinating via planning.