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2) No matter what, I always sit down at my desk at 10AM and fire up Emacs first. Even if I don't know what I am doing, as soon as the project builds and I scan the first few lines of code, yesterday's hacking session comes back to me and I resume work.
2. I turn off cell phone when working on something important.
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Just this morning I've set up a wiki for myself to help with this problem. As ideas come in, I'll post them to the front page under "free floaters" (working on quicksilver action for that right now), then as they start to form or as I do research, I'll start fleshing out the pages for each idea. I'm hoping the wiki aspect will also force me to look at how individual ideas might be related. I'm thinking of it conceptu…
very similar idea here. I also run a mediawiki wiki on my laptop, and my pile of ideas is in a template I call the idea garden. The front page of the wiki is a pile of templates: to do list, idea garden, and a subject-matter-specific meta template that has two levels of links into all the other areas. Been using it for over a year now, swear by it. SVN and PHP are not cool, but it works, and that counts. BTW, what pl…
I've installed PHP, MySQL, and MediaWiki from zips/installers on a Windows server I have access to so I could hit it from any of my computers or (eventually) phone.
I guess I could have set it up at home, but I don't like keeping my computers on 24/7. I'm considering getting an Asus EEE box that supposedly only needs 20W, so I may revisit that in the future.