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Yeah and I can delete my post later when I get to a place where I can do that, but thanks.
If you're on a mobile device, do what I do: "share" or "send" the url to your email app and then mail it to yourself. It goes directly to my inbox, and I don't mark it as "read" until I've "actioned" it.
Start spending some time reading Cal Newport's blog. You still have the problem of deciding which things are important to you, but just immersing yourself in how he approaches focus and deep habits, about how he prioritizes his work, will send you in the right direction. If you time block your available time as he does, you're forced to make choices--there is only so much time available, obviously--and the discipline…
I use the iOS app Kan-Do to budget my time to different projects/activities and work on them pomodoro-style (i.e. in timed chunks). Lets me set goals of time spent for the week and track where I've spent my time and how much. (You don't have to do everything in 30 min chunks as you go, you can also manually record other blocks of time spent.)
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If you're on a mobile device, do what I do: "share" or "send" the url to your email app and then mail it to yourself. It goes directly to my inbox, and I don't mark it as "read" until I've "actioned" it.
I use this approach as well, but I also have a filter in my mailbox that sends those mails to a folder 'notes to self', to avoid excessive notifications and inbox clutter.
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It'd be great if HN added a way to view comments I've upvoted.
We thought that was a good idea so we did it. You should now see "saved comments" in your profile. Thanks for the suggestion! We also changed it so "saved stories" and "saved comments" don't include your own submissions, given that those already have their own pages.
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I use the iOS app Kan-Do to budget my time to different projects/activities and work on them pomodoro-style (i.e. in timed chunks). Lets me set goals of time spent for the week and track where I've spent my time and how much. (You don't have to do everything in 30 min chunks as you go, you can also manually record other blocks of time spent.)
how long have you been using it? what are the pros/cons?
It's good if you want to set goals for N pomodoros on task area A, M pomos on project B, etc. and then work predominantly in pomo-mode and track your progress on your goals. If you don't use the timer mode, hand-entering time spent probably will get tedious quickly. It's designed to help particularly with time-boxing (i.e. when you're budgeting out a limited amount of time across projects), though I don't use it that way.
I think it's pleasant to use in day-to-day use, decent UI.
Cons: I find that I have a hard time doing my planning (time allocation) on a mobile device screen. I want to do it on a big screen where I can see everything, or on paper. I'm not good at regularly triaging the list and adjusting it, so the goals tend to grow stale and I start ignoring them a bit.
Logging problem solving research and development for yourself through a shared Gist (http://gist.github.com) might be useful to show your work, and own changes by audit trailing yourself.
While diary blogging is normal, I find real difficulty reading deeper meaning writing from a lack of change history detail that could go deeper to task of showing your work and how you got there.
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It'd be great if HN added a way to view comments I've upvoted.
We thought that was a good idea so we did it. You should now see "saved comments" in your profile. Thanks for the suggestion! We also changed it so "saved stories" and "saved comments" don't include your own submissions, given that those already have their own pages.
Let me put on my Project Management hat for a moment. I think you first need to enumerate, at the highest level what you want to achieve, should be one sentence or less. Maybe its "Become a world class python oriented Data Scientist". Under that you can break that down into four-ish domains you need to learn, in this case, Statistics, Python, Data Science, Data Visualization. From there break it down into subjects un…
Been there, done that (over and over again). You don't have time for everything. Therefore, you must choose what to do, but also you must choose what not to do. That is the hard part - choosing what to let go. Once you did that, the rest is (comparatively) easy. Ideally, devote yourself to one subject and immerse yourself in it. Stay focused, refuse to do anything else. You'll have distractions, you'll doubt your cho…