Learnt this from a cxo few years ago and this has certainly helped - to be able to make time for yourself, every workspace task should be a calendar entry.
Calendar, Not Todos (2018)
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Re: Calendar, Not Todos (2018)
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#13I don't use either of them and things have worked just fine for me.
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#14I don't use either of them and things have worked just fine for me.
If you have to switch from several contexts, I think it might be helpful. Keeping focus on a single task does not need Todos indeed.
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#15I tried it but went back to todo list. Managing or not managing your calendar has zero affect on the time it takes to complete the task. Managing the calendar actually consumes energy plus time that I could've used for doing the actual work instead. Now I look at my todo list and move some things up, some things down in priority and get back at work. Only the tasks that need to be done at the right time go to my cale…
I want to be able to put a “block” in my calendar and every day it automatically schedules in tasks from my todo list, maybe prioritizing time to “benefit”. It would be smart enough to shuffle in recurring tasks periodically. I love working to a calendar if my full day is blocked in, but it’s too much to manage manually, because nothing ever goes according to plan.
Re: Calendar, Not Todos (2018)
#16This kind of planning may not work because of the difficulty of estimating tasks and the nuances that arise, but what about the similar idea of recording not what to do, but what has been done? For example, a text document where you can enter the date and time by keyboard shortcuts and keep a record of what you have done at regular intervals?
Something like
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Has anyone tried something similar or maybe there's some common name for it?
Re: Calendar, Not Todos (2018)
#17I use org-mode for todos, which is pretty damned nice (after a sharp learning curve).
It lets me link to Jira, email, slack, and files in one place.
I'm planning on adding TODO and BUG entries from my code files into an org-based tracking system as well. I'm going to need to come up with a filter for them, though. I slap TODOs everywhere. org-mode and org-agenda also can't handle thousands of files (I've tried).
I'll need some way to promote TODOs into an active state. Maybe ripgrep all my files for the keywords, add the files to an index, and maybe with Projectile, I can add the TODOs to an active org-agenda state.
Re: Calendar, Not Todos (2018)
#18I dislike the basic premise: that estimates are a good idea.
That's why I like Shape Up in principle over planning poker or other similar things.
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#19Feels like this is a game. The game resembles those wooden puzzle games, with a 8x8 grid of sliding wooden pieces, where one piece is missing. You push a piece around to complete the picture, but when you do, lots of other pieces get moved around and destroy the progress you've made.
I really love this simple breakdown and the assumptions given.
Re: Calendar, Not Todos (2018)
#20Feels very alien to me. I'm a dad. Life is built around the children's calendar