Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient
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Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Feeling Marvelously Efficient
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#3I approximately "invented" this after reading tons of productivity blogs and stuff.
I keep an org-mode file with 3 headings:
* week range
** day-in-week
*** major topic
edit: I've done this for about 47 weeks now. I keep a single file, synced out to a backedup location periodically. Anything worth writing about goes in here. My hope is that any professional conversation and act is captured here, ready for later searching and review.
I also keep a high-level TODO list at the top of the file when I'm pondering priorities and direction.
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#4Funny, I sort of did this yesterday and it worked. In the act of planning my current week, I took a look at my log of time spent last week. The log was much more detailed than usual because I was auditing my time pretty carefully. After adding it all up and listing how I spent my time and what I got done, I had quite a list, much to my surprise - and just the neurochemical reward suggested in the post.
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#5We use iDoneThis and really like it. We tend to use it when the team is distributed. When we're all located in the same place, usage wanes (but it's cheap enough not to worry about). But during times that people are working remotely, it's the best way to keep everyone on the same page.
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#6Shameless 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:
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#7I approximately "invented" this after reading tons of productivity blogs and stuff. I keep an org-mode file with 3 headings: * week range ** day-in-week *** major topic And then I log what I did in the day. It is unbelievable how much you actually do some days when you feel like you did nothing but yammer and poke small problems. edit: I've done this for about 47 weeks now. I keep a single file, synced out to a backe…
Do you use much of the other org-mode bells and whistles when you do this?
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#8Like a commit log.
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#9I've started writing myself "work receipts" - slips of paper that are dated and recount what I did for whom. I stick them in my backpack and then transfer them to FreshBooks. I find it very satisfying to have a pile of small squares of paper that represent real progress and are worth real money at the end of the day.
I've considered using a logbook, something bound so that it's neater, but I have to say I just love having a single small slip of paper sitting there beside my computer as I work. It is a testament to focus - it is a physical talisman representative of singular focus.
It works really, really well.
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#10waits for flurry of Anti-todo list mobile apps to appear...