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Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

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Re: Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

#21
Started doing something similar on a private twitter account which follows no one, and no one follows it. Once I do something, I tweet. Benefits: Using twitter as a platform, keep description in 140 chars, search, timestamp etc.

However, I violated the first rule of using the organization tool i.e. Trust your tool. Yet another post on hackernews and I got distracted into trying Trello, and what not for a promise of increased productivity.

Re: Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

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>The more productive you are, the more likely you are to get down on yourself and think at the end of the day, “I wasn’t very productive today.”

Wow, that sounds like an incredibly unjustified relationship, with only the superficial support of its counter-intuitive nature. In my experience, the opposite happens, the more you do in a day, the more you recognize and remember that you accomplished that day, and consequentially, feel that you accomplished. Which by the way, is exactly what the anti-todo list is, except with a mental list of remembered accomplishments, rather than manually recorded ones. The latter act should only be necessary if an individual has a particular problem recognizing what they've accomplished in a day; I don't think this is some deep insight or universal principle.

Re: Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

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Nice product! Just started using it and realized it's far different than my Yammer and/or Wunderlist. This is especially good for writing simple daily recaps which I can then compress into weekly update to my investors.

It would be awesome if you could notice trends in things I write such as People, Companies, etc so I can search by popular tags.

Re: Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

#24

Nice product! Just started using it and realized it's far different than my Yammer and/or Wunderlist. This is especially good for writing simple daily recaps which I can then compress into weekly update to my investors. It would be awesome if you could notice trends in things I write such as People, Companies, etc so I can search by popular tags.

Thanks, Jason! Much appreciated. We do have word clouds that show you your frequency of word use. It's basic now, but we plan on sprucing it up. Tagging is something that's in the plans.

Re: Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

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>The more productive you are, the more likely you are to get down on yourself and think at the end of the day, “I wasn’t very productive today.” Wow, that sounds like an incredibly unjustified relationship, with only the superficial support of its counter-intuitive nature. In my experience, the opposite happens, the more you do in a day, the more you recognize and remember that you accomplished that day, and conseque…

In the context of the article, I think the justification was: assuming you're more productive in quality and not quantity, because you're working towards ambitious goals, then on most days you will not complete a recognized goal. The suggestion is to go out of your way to recognize your smaller day-to-day accomplishments which help you reach the big goal.

Re: Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

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wutdo: http://sprunge.us/OhOS donewut: http://sprunge.us/OiAL

Two little scripts I just whipped up that'll help you record the things you do throughout the day. I'm definitely going to try to use these as much as possible, it's kind of like a personal micro-blog.

Re: Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

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post #27

Anti-Todo List... otherwise known as "Lab Notebook"? This process is commonplace (and often required!) in academic settings. I love looking through mine and reliving the discovery process!

Exactly! Plus it's helpful for remembering the decisions that led you down a particular path, and for coming up with documentation.

I used Yammer for this in the past--just posted quick blurbs about that I did as I did it so that the team stay informed and I could remember what I had done.

Re: Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient

#29
post #14

Shameless plug for a stupid little web-app I wrote for exactly this purpose... years ago. It was my first foray into Django, and it's open-source: http://finisht.com http://github.com/nicksergeant/finisht

This is great. Is the app pronounced "finished", "finish it", or "finish shit!" ? I kind of like the last one, haha. Seriously though I'm curious which one.

haha, it's pronounced "Finished". I also built https://snipt.net so I stuck with a similar theme. "Snipped, Finished", etc.
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