To-do waves
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To-do waves
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#2Nice article, really clean and hits my taste just right. The content was not too profound or wise or anything I usually look for, but I just wanted to say the layout and flow of the page was a good read.
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#3It's a cool metaphor. I think the examples are a bit more of things that you just do though. I don't normally think about having to pee, it just hits me. I don't normally consider going out for ice cream a "to do", I see it as a reward for doing things on my todos.
I can't tell the authors perspective on breaks though. They mention scheduling them are counterintuitive but believe they are needed for diffuse-mode thinking. The reason why the pomodoro technique is so effective and widely used is that we have a natural time limit to our "waves" in term of our active focus before we need a wind-down.
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#4It's a cool metaphor. I think the examples are a bit more of things that you just do though. I don't normally think about having to pee, it just hits me. I don't normally consider going out for ice cream a "to do", I see it as a reward for doing things on my todos. I can't tell the authors perspective on breaks though. They mention scheduling them are counterintuitive but believe they are needed for diffuse-mode thin…
Yeah, some better examples that I use on a regular basis:
1. Take out the trash on Mondays
2. Pay the credit card bill on the 5th of every month
3. Get a haircut every 5 weeks
4. Pay the water bill every 3 months, etc
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#5It's a cool metaphor. I think the examples are a bit more of things that you just do though. I don't normally think about having to pee, it just hits me. I don't normally consider going out for ice cream a "to do", I see it as a reward for doing things on my todos. I can't tell the authors perspective on breaks though. They mention scheduling them are counterintuitive but believe they are needed for diffuse-mode thin…
Yeah, some better examples that I use on a regular basis: 1. Take out the trash on Mondays 2. Pay the credit card bill on the 5th of every month 3. Get a haircut every 5 weeks 4. Pay the water bill every 3 months, etc Having those sorts of things in my recurring To Do list are very helpful to ensure they don't get forgotten.
I made a little email/web app that makes it easy to have a shared list like this for my wife and I, it’s very barebones but I use it every day: https://www.onit.today/
I found the alternatives to be either: designed to build your life around them and therefore too complex, or simple but lacking a good mechanism to have a shared list with others.
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#6This sentence “ And a week, year or longer waves like cutting nails, tanking a car, renewing a passport”
I initially read that the author only cuts his nails once per year. Yuck…
Then I realized he was more likely giving an example of weekly.
Anyone else read it that way?
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, some better examples that I use on a regular basis: 1. Take out the trash on Mondays 2. Pay the credit card bill on the 5th of every month 3. Get a haircut every 5 weeks 4. Pay the water bill every 3 months, etc Having those sorts of things in my recurring To Do list are very helpful to ensure they don't get forgotten.
I made a little email/web app that makes it easy to have a shared list like this for my wife and I, it’s very barebones but I use it every day: https://www.onit.today/ I found the alternatives to be either: designed to build your life around them and therefore too complex, or simple but lacking a good mechanism to have a shared list with others.
Love the name. It’s great!
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#8Presumably, that header graphic is not to scale.
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#9My first thought here is that the composition of todo waves allows the opportunity for a human to become arbitrarily busy on a given day when the waves positively interfere. Thankfully many of these items phase lock to the circadian rhythm or enjoy some scheduling flexibility.
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#10Nice article, really clean and hits my taste just right. The content was not too profound or wise or anything I usually look for, but I just wanted to say the layout and flow of the page was a good read.
Agreed, I liked the graphics especially.
The concept of waves is really nice. It supplant my previous visualization of these kind of tasks, which was more "spiky".