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A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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encom wrote: post #25
laurieherault wrote: post #2

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

It's a great and well written article. I read all of it, and as a fellow ADHD sufferer, that's rare. :) My experiences with ADHD align pretty closely with yours. We're of a similar age, but I was only diagnosed recently, and I'm still settling into this, adjusting medication and so on. But just knowing now what's wrong with me, is a game changer. It means I can work with it or around it, instead of being in a state o…

Thanks for your comment!

I totally relate to the way you described it! You can try my solution in a really simple way using post-it notes. Just do a few tests and see if it works for you!

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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graboid wrote: post #24

I like it! For me, I can confirm that the smaller the task, the less likely it is for me to procrastinate on it. I also didn't know that receipt printers don't need ink, that's cool. On a similar note: me and my partner recently also started using an app that divides up the household chores into small tasks and schedules them for us (e.g. "today you have to vacuum the living room"). For us, this prevents conflicts an…

What app are you using?

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by Waterluvian »

This is immediately one of my favourite articles of all-time. It's well-written, visually appealing, and the subject matter is absolutely down my alley. I might actually just buy one and try this out.

I absolutely love how you show and tell, by having an article with an EXP system. But when do I get skill unlocks? I'm really hoping to be able to enjoy your next article with upgrades.

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by laurieherault »

sirwhinesalot wrote: post #21
laurieherault wrote: post #2

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

I'm glad you found a method that works for you, and as a fellow small-time blog author I can say I quite enjoyed reading your post. Sadly, I've tried the task breakdown stuff before and it hasn't helped. It's not even just the fact that I procrastinate doing it, but that even when I manage to do it, it makes no difference. Anything that requires more than a one off "session" of intellectual work is doomed. Even if I…

I totally understand! Just for this article, I restarted it 12 times!

What really made a difference for me was starting very very very very very small, with almost no ambition. That is truly the most important point in my article, but I am not sure if I managed to communicate it clearly.

The idea is really to say something like: my goal is to write for 5 minutes, and if that is too hard, I do 2 minutes. And if I manage that, I consider the task done and I can pick another one, also 5 minutes long.

This gives me a real sense of accomplishment and helps me focus on what I have already done instead of everything that is left to do.

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by laurieherault »

orphea wrote: post #27
laurieherault wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I know that tool, but the user experience really isn’t great. That’s why I made my own. But thanks for the suggestion :)

Oh, I should have read your article further enough!

Oh, did you procrastinate finishing the article? :)

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by fauria »

jw1224 wrote: post #13

Great first article, and very interesting to see someone else using a receipt printer for bite-sized task management! I have a variety of automations running which print actionable tasks to my receipt printer via a Raspberry Pi. It’s nice having a real-life ticket I can take hold of. One thing to be aware of if you’re handling receipts frequently: make sure to buy phenol-free thermal paper. Phenol is toxic and some t…

Is there any way of knowing, just by examining it, whether a given thermal paper is toxic or not?

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by laurieherault »

graboid wrote: post #24

I like it! For me, I can confirm that the smaller the task, the less likely it is for me to procrastinate on it. I also didn't know that receipt printers don't need ink, that's cool. On a similar note: me and my partner recently also started using an app that divides up the household chores into small tasks and schedules them for us (e.g. "today you have to vacuum the living room"). For us, this prevents conflicts an…

Thanks for your comment! I have the same question as hyperific — which app are you using?

Re: A receipt printer cured my procrastination

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Post by hyperific »

laurieherault wrote: post #2

Author here. It’s my first article. I’m a bit nervous but excited to get your feedback. If you deal with procrastination too, I hope this method helps you like it helped me.

I just picked up a used thermal printer to try it out myself and I'm looking forward to the release of the code.

I did notice that on mobile the left edge of text on your website is cut off by about half a character.

Also I liked how reading the article was its own game loop with progress bar, level up notifications and items! I hope you use that on future posts!

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