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Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day

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Post by davidw »

mattcrail wrote: post #25
davidw wrote: post #20

I get anxious when I have some kind of ... time thing coming up. Meeting, have to go get a kid from school... it just sits there churning up cycles in my brain. It's the enemy of "flow".

It's definitely not for everyone. I actually get motivation from having the deadline coming up to buckle down and try to finish the thing I am doing in the time allotted. So for me it helps with flow, but I understand that isn't universal for.

A deadline like "Friday" can have that effect, but not something like "10:25".

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Post by tomjen3 »

mawise wrote: post #24

I remember trying out Getting Things Done, really liking the idea, and then finding out I had only crappy ways to reference an email from my "todo list". Enough of my "work" is "respond to this email" that I've never been able to escape my inbox as one of my todo lists. Any ideas on how to build task planning that lets me include link directly to an email?

Sell your soul to the ghost of Steve Jobs.

In mail, select some of the text of the email, then share to reminders. This creates a reminder with the selected text and a link to the email. This also works in iOS.

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Post by mcovalt »

tomjen3 wrote: post #33
mawise wrote: post #24

I remember trying out Getting Things Done, really liking the idea, and then finding out I had only crappy ways to reference an email from my "todo list". Enough of my "work" is "respond to this email" that I've never been able to escape my inbox as one of my todo lists. Any ideas on how to build task planning that lets me include link directly to an email?

Sell your soul to the ghost of Steve Jobs. In mail, select some of the text of the email, then share to reminders. This creates a reminder with the selected text and a link to the email. This also works in iOS.

You can also drag an email from Mail to Reminders. I drag email from Mail and links from Safari into Reminders all the time.

Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day

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Post by mattcrail »

nefitty wrote: post #18

I haven't used this app. I had to make my own similar tool. Anyways, timeblocking changed my life. It was a slog at first. I started off by logging what I actually did. "Sit on couch - 12:15 - 4:30" "Walk dog - 4:30 - 4:45" "Sit on couch - 4:45 - 7:00" Seeing the patterns I had fallen into was like looking into some sort of chronographic mirror. My fourth dimensional beer belly had gotten pretty big. Put my ballot in…

Absolutely - it's really interesting to reflect on where your time has gone

Re: Show HN: A better way to timeblock your day

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Post by irrational »

> that way no one can schedule a meeting in your focus time.

LOL. Oh my sweet summer child. I so wish I lived in your fantasy land where this was remotely true. My experience has been that everyone assumes their stuff is more important than your stuff, so you will reschedule your stuff to make way for their stuff. I’ve worked in a number of places professionally for 25 years and I’ve never seen different.

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