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A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by ayhanfuat »

laurieherault wrote: post #2

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

I loved it. I think it perfectly captures the itch that causes procrastination: you had a working solution but it was not good enough for you. You've perfected it but you still have issues with it. You still managed to live with the imperfect version while working on improving it, though. I think that's the part most of us procrastinators fail.

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by voidUpdate »

I'm going to try and see if this works better for me. The daily printout of "things that need to happen today" is a fun idea, especially if I could keep it by my bed and have it print off when my alarm goes off.

Are there any receipt-style printers that can directly print some kind of sticky note? I feel like that would be even more useful since you don't have to keep pins around, though I can see the running cost getting a lot higher

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by jw1224 »

Great first article, and very interesting to see someone else using a receipt printer for bite-sized task management!

I have a variety of automations running which print actionable tasks to my receipt printer via a Raspberry Pi. It’s nice having a real-life ticket I can take hold of.

One thing to be aware of if you’re handling receipts frequently: make sure to buy phenol-free thermal paper. Phenol is toxic and some types of it are banned in certain countries.

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by jw1224 »

whalee wrote: post #7

Cool idea! I would note there are some known health hazards in handling thermal-paper receipts(BPA/BPS)[1] with your bare hands if you do so often. I don't know much beyond this, I would look into it. [1] https://www.pca.state.mn.us/business-with-us/bpa-and-bps-in-...

You can buy phenol-free thermal paper, it’s about 20% more expensive where I live but much safer for you, and the quality is just as good.

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Post by uxamanda »

voidUpdate wrote: post #12

I'm going to try and see if this works better for me. The daily printout of "things that need to happen today" is a fun idea, especially if I could keep it by my bed and have it print off when my alarm goes off. Are there any receipt-style printers that can directly print some kind of sticky note? I feel like that would be even more useful since you don't have to keep pins around, though I can see the running cost ge…

Yes, you can get one that prints shipping labels

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by laurieherault »

jw1224 wrote: post #13

Great first article, and very interesting to see someone else using a receipt printer for bite-sized task management! I have a variety of automations running which print actionable tasks to my receipt printer via a Raspberry Pi. It’s nice having a real-life ticket I can take hold of. One thing to be aware of if you’re handling receipts frequently: make sure to buy phenol-free thermal paper. Phenol is toxic and some t…

Yes, I think having a tangible task is really important!

Since I’m in Europe, we don’t really have paper with bisphenol anymore, but that’s not the case everywhere.

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by laurieherault »

voidUpdate wrote: post #12

I'm going to try and see if this works better for me. The daily printout of "things that need to happen today" is a fun idea, especially if I could keep it by my bed and have it print off when my alarm goes off. Are there any receipt-style printers that can directly print some kind of sticky note? I feel like that would be even more useful since you don't have to keep pins around, though I can see the running cost ge…

As uxamanda said, you can use shipping label printers.

Personally, with receipt-style tickets, I print them and make a small stack. I usually go through them in the same order.

But I can also use a small clip.

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Post by hgomersall »

laurieherault wrote: post #16
jw1224 wrote: post #13

Great first article, and very interesting to see someone else using a receipt printer for bite-sized task management! I have a variety of automations running which print actionable tasks to my receipt printer via a Raspberry Pi. It’s nice having a real-life ticket I can take hold of. One thing to be aware of if you’re handling receipts frequently: make sure to buy phenol-free thermal paper. Phenol is toxic and some t…

Yes, I think having a tangible task is really important! Since I’m in Europe, we don’t really have paper with bisphenol anymore, but that’s not the case everywhere.

AFAICT, BPS is still widely used in Europe.
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