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Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by elvis635 » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

learnstats2 wrote: post #8

npsimons wrote: post #5

Nice picture - where's the content? Comes up blank.

Javascript is required to fade the text content in from white to black... Javascript fails = you see white on white.

I also browse with JS disabled and it sucks when people don't properly have a fallback in place, even if it's just one click for me. Even more when those things can be done by css and thus not breaking when JS is not enabled

But the question is: why? Why fade the text content from white to black when the content is below the fold and by the time I see the content it's already black? It seems quite a useless effect to me

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by alphadevx » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 4:38 PM UTC

andygcook wrote: post #7

I developed a similar system to this last year, but instead of defining my tasks for the week, I'd just choose the three most important tasks I wanted to get done for the day at the beginning of each morning. If I got my three tasks done, it was a productive day and anything else I did was gravy. If I didn't, I forced myself to look back at what I spent my time on that day. The three-task system helped me get focused…

I love these light-weight approaches and tools. I do something very similar using a todo.txt file, except I try to do 5 things.

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by tristanho » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 5:16 PM UTC

hacktheplanetx wrote: post #4

I wake up to my hacker alarm clock, quickly hack myself up and go to shower, I hack through it quickly and hack myself dry with a towel. Then I proceed to hack my socks, pants and other hacker essentials before hacking my commute to work. I'm already late, so I need to hack myself and sprint to the trainstation. Hacking away at some wordpress themes and finally a master hack to change the colorscheme of my xterm.

I want you to know that I laughed at your comment (plus your name) probably harder than anything else this week.

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by andygcook » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 5:31 PM UTC

alphadevx wrote: post #22

andygcook wrote: post #7

I developed a similar system to this last year, but instead of defining my tasks for the week, I'd just choose the three most important tasks I wanted to get done for the day at the beginning of each morning. If I got my three tasks done, it was a productive day and anything else I did was gravy. If I didn't, I forced myself to look back at what I spent my time on that day. The three-task system helped me get focused…

I love these light-weight approaches and tools. I do something very similar using a todo.txt file, except I try to do 5 things.

Agreed and thanks for the positive vibes. My MVP for this system was actually a small moleskin notebook and a to-do list stamp with three tasks from Etsy.

I found that without a daily reminder email, I forgot to write out my tasks for the day, so I built out a light-weight web app to scratch my own itch and build the habit.

I've also tried variations around the number of tasks with one thing, five things, ten things, etc. Three primary things a day seems to be best amount for me to compete each day, but I'm sure the number of tasks probably depends on personal preference.

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by howardvk » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 5:52 PM UTC

alphadevx wrote: post #2

I came to conclusion many years ago that in order for a planning routine to have staying power for me it had to be: 1. Real simple 2. Require minimal effort If it fails both of those criteria, chances are you won't stick with it for too long. The planning itself becomes something you have to plan into your schedule, for example from the post: "The bulk of my weekly planning takes place on Sunday evening." Sorry but t…

Good point - I should have mentioned in the article that this whole Sunday process takes me 30 mins - 45 mins. For me that's a great investment of time and I sleep really well looking forward to a week ahead that I'm in control of!

Appreciate what works for me doesn't work for everyone though

Re: Week Hacking: How to plan your week for maximum impact

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Post by howardvk » Thu, Dec 11, 2014, 5:54 PM UTC

andygcook wrote: post #7

I developed a similar system to this last year, but instead of defining my tasks for the week, I'd just choose the three most important tasks I wanted to get done for the day at the beginning of each morning. If I got my three tasks done, it was a productive day and anything else I did was gravy. If I didn't, I forced myself to look back at what I spent my time on that day. The three-task system helped me get focused…

This is great Andy - thanks for sharing that. Three.do is essentially a digital version of the '3 things for an incredible day' that I have as part of my daily ritual.

I image it will do really well :)