Turn off the clock on your menu bar
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Turn off the clock on your menu bar
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Re: Turn off the clock on your menu bar
#2Sadly enough, I did this when I worked at $BIG_CO, not so much because it improved my productivity, but because the day was excruciatingly long with a clock staring at me in the corner. It helped a lot.
Re: Turn off the clock on your menu bar
#3Something that I would add to that is have someone you trust change your Facebook password (for the day, the week, until the weekends, however long). If you're like me, it's not uncommon to log in ~5-10 times a day just for a quick check. Doing so interrupts your flow the same way diverting your attention to an upcoming event does. However, when you get in the habit of not even being able to check it, that distraction disappears from your life.
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#4I 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).
Re: Turn off the clock on your menu bar
#5Something that I would add to that is have someone you trust change your Facebook password (for the day, the week, until the weekends, however long). If you're like me, it's not uncommon to log in ~5-10 times a day just for a quick check. Doing so interrupts your flow the same way diverting your attention to an upcoming event does. However, when you get in the habit of not even being able to check it, that distractio…
Dude seriously... do you really get someone to change your Facebook password?
Re: Turn off the clock on your menu bar
#6I started heading in this direction a few years ago, and now I'm running dwm (http://dwm.suckless.org), no menu bar, with a couple of scripts that I have to manually run to see things like the time or my unread email count. It did take some getting used to, but I'm definitely more productive this way.
Re: Turn off the clock on your menu bar
#7Something that I would add to that is have someone you trust change your Facebook password (for the day, the week, until the weekends, however long). If you're like me, it's not uncommon to log in ~5-10 times a day just for a quick check. Doing so interrupts your flow the same way diverting your attention to an upcoming event does. However, when you get in the habit of not even being able to check it, that distractio…
...or just delete your account.
Re: Turn off the clock on your menu bar
#8The two things in my mac menubar i definitely know i can do without are the two things i can't remove:
- Searchlight icon
- TimeMachine icon
Everything else in my menubar is either removable myself, or indicate state about my machine that i need to track (input mode, wireless connection, volume level and the like)
Re: Turn off the clock on your menu bar
#9Something that I would add to that is have someone you trust change your Facebook password (for the day, the week, until the weekends, however long). If you're like me, it's not uncommon to log in ~5-10 times a day just for a quick check. Doing so interrupts your flow the same way diverting your attention to an upcoming event does. However, when you get in the habit of not even being able to check it, that distractio…
Dude seriously... do you really get someone to change your Facebook password?
If he does? More power to him. Clearly, he sees that he's more productive when that's taken away from him, and he's not letting it distract him from more important things.
Re: Turn off the clock on your menu bar
#10So, I've now been trying this for I don't know how long (yeah, I mean that literally) with interesting results.
I hid the clock on my taskbar, put masking tape over the clock on my landline phone, and put my mobile phone face down and out of my reach. Then I set up my scheduling program to remind me when it's lunch or home time.
But my mind! That little part of my consciousness where it used to keep the time, it doesn't know what to put there any more. And it's freaking out about it, too.
I never realised before this how much mental effort was dedicated to keeping track of time. Now that I know, I'm definitely not going back. I shouldn't be doing anything my computer can do as well as or better than me. That includes keeping track of time.