Ok m saving this link so i can plan later my schedule to tackle my procrastination just going to keep watching netflix for just a couple of more minutes...
Show HN: Killing Procrastination by Making Everything Fit
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#52I've found that methods like this don't actually help me avoid procrastinating. The key for me is to remove the psychological barriers to starting a particular task.
I think Getting Things Done has a good approach by dedicating time to figuring out what the Next Actions are for any given task / project. The idea is that it is way easier to start on a task if what's listed is a concrete action. For example, you might add an item to your Inbox like:
"Add better search for project X".
You might avoid a task like this indefinitely. With GTD, you take regular time out of your day (it's how I start every morning), and you take your Inbox items like above and figure out what the literal next step should be to achieve the goal. So the above item might become:
"Search google for adding search to a django project"
There is something about taking the mental task of figuring out what the Next Actions are, and putting it into its own process that removes a lot of the hurdles for me.
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#53Also on product hunt, if that's allowed: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/liquidtime
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#54I really love the idea. I use pomodoro timing for my work, but I always have to decide on the spot what I want to do for that 25 minutes. If I'm working on one task, that's easy, but after I'm at a good stopping point with that task it's hard. I like the idea of mindfully making the todo list every day or week. Three pieces of feedback: 1) I have to click "done" after editing anything and if I forget and click on som…
The rationale for the "done" UX is that there's validation too. If you allocate too much time it'll warn ya before saving.
6 hours is a bit much default IMO, not everyone is a freelancer/workaholic.
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#55I like this idea because you can also adapt your schedule to others.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I reschedule all the time, what's the point of having the calendar? =)
Not only that, but I find scheduling too much kills the pleasure of doing things on a whim as well as feeding a growing angst when you keep on postponing stuff. Maybe we should stop trying to live in the future so desperately and just enjoy the present moment. [...] and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather’s and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desi…
I started scheduling "every minute of my life" after reading Deep Work, and I must say it works wonders.
> I find scheduling too much kills the pleasure of doing things on a whim as well as feeding a growing angst when you keep on postponing stuff.
I felt that way too, but then I discovered the problem is in the way I understood calendars. I thought they're meant to be used as commitment devices. I don't think that anymore. Instead, I treat my calendar as an optimistic planning tool. I schedule the way I think it would be best to spend my time, then dynamically adjust it as the day goes. Calendar entries are suggestions, defaults, "do this unless you have a better thing to do". This approach - which is pretty much 100% function of my attitude - gives me benefits of scheduling, while leaving me free to ignore the calendar at any time I like, to do something completely on a whim.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The problem I have is not that I haven't planned correctly, it's that I do not follow my plan. reply if you don't follow the plan, you haven't planned correctly. a good plan has built-in mechanisms to make you follow it. OP's project tries to give you one potential mechanism for that.
Sometimes, not following the plan is exactly the right thing to (not) do. Remember: you always have more information now than when you made those plans.
I like to think of plans as sane defaults - "do this, unless you have a good reason to do something else". Just having a default improves my time management significantly.
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#58A list is made. Some items are starred. Other items might be double starred, or marked in different ways. An estimate is made for the time each item will take. Eventually, items get crossed off, or 'commented out'. I do this all in a text file. It works great. I used to delete completed items, but I found it robbed me of a sense of accomplishment I kinda value. If I don't finish the list (which happens often), at lea…
> I used to delete completed items, but I found it robbed me > of a sense of accomplishment I kinda value. This contains the key to ending procrastination -- crafting one's psychological relationship to the intended task, and also to the pastimes one uses to procrastinate. You can't fit work that in an app, though. It's more like internal marketing, management, or propaganda than scheduling. > There are no perfect an…
I thought that way too about deleting done tasks. I stopped doing it, and soon I've ended up with unmanageable todo lists - just too many done stuff (with notes!) to scroll through.
Now I archive done tasks once a week during weekly review. It gives me the sense of "wow, just look at how much I've done over the past week" without bloating my todo lists.
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#59This is a really interesting time management concept I hadn't seen implemented before- Starting with "# hours needed" and "Deadline" and then working backwards to schedule individual days is a great idea. I always have way too many projects happening simultaneously with no clear conception of how long it'll actually take to accomplish everything and without a decent way to establish reasonable deadlines.
I might give this a shot.
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#60I'm sure it would be helpful for many people, but for me personally once I miss a scheduled event like " At 3PM practice drawing for 2 hours, then do progrmaming from 4-5pm". If I start drawing at 3:15 and finish at 4:15, everything gets messed up. Fixed scheduling just isn't for me. I'd rather have a checklist like "draw for 2 hours" and "program for 1 hour", which I can check off daily and is flexible to my schedul…
I reschedule my "time boxes" during the day, and also keep them flexible. I found having them anchored to a specific time during the day (even if I get to move them around several times) to be very helpful - if I don't do that, I often find myself thinking "oh crap, I don't have 2 hours left today to practice drawing", etc.