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I read recently that stop bad habits, eliminate the triggers for the habits. These are the things in your brain strongly associated with the undesirable behavior. Seeing that clock could be one such trigger for many people.
Got rid of gmail notifier and also removed my last name from my user name for a little less clutter on the toolbar. Turns out I knew what it was anyway.
I went half-way with this and went to the analog clock. It's so ridiculously tiny and hard to read that it takes effort.. so I usually don't bother. But it's still there to click on and see the time if I need to check (the time is added to the usual date item in the drop down if you go to analog).
The top portion is 309 words. The portion after the tl;dr heading is 386 words. (used cat | wc to do the word count).
TL;DR It was an interesting exposition on the modern Man's relationship to time an the surprising effect of detachment that results a Vegas-like visual detemporalization of the visual environment, followed by further clarification that exhibited a clear lack of understanding of proper summarization techniques appropriate for an Internet audience.
I'm sure this idea will help some people become more productive. Not people like me, though. Maybe I just get easily distracted, but I make small deals with myself when working through a mundane (but important) task. Deals like: - "15 more minutes and you can get a coffee". - "You can't look at HN until 4pm". - You get the picture. A clock helps immensely with this. Sometimes a task feels like it's taking forever, bu…
StayFocusd for Chrome is incredible.
It has boosted my productivity tenfold.
The top portion is 309 words. The portion after the tl;dr heading is 386 words. (used cat | wc to do the word count).
Think of it as "this is what you'll say when you see what's below this mark."
- replace all desktop icons and docks with Launchy
- remove all system taskbar icons
- activate the GMail labs "unread counter on favicon"
- trim down the browser to its bare basics
I'm quite pleased with the results: http://oi53.tinypic.com/nmc4nr.jpg
It makes my brain happy.
I find that tucking the clock away in this place where my eyes scan to last causes me to look at it very little except when I want to.
