I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
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I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
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Re: I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
#2Calendars can be powerful focusing tools.
Re: I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
#3Hey Joe, I think the solution to your problem is in your post. You said that when you were tracking your time it killed your idea, and that when you stopped tracking your time you became unfocused.
Try letting AI classify your idea into a time-tracking bucket for you, and to generate a beginning of day report describing how you spent your time yesterday.
If you write down your idea, then it'll be harder to forget it. You can let the AI figure out where to put it and fix it the next day if it's wrong.
If you look at where you spent your time yesterday each morning, then hopefully it'll help you figure out a better place to spend your time today.
You can easily set this up with any harness. Just copy and paste my comment and tell the AI to make some skills.
Re: I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
#4Calendars can be powerful focusing tools.
Agreed! But to a point, sometimes time blocks suck away all of my creativity.
Re: I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
#5Hey Joe, I think the solution to your problem is in your post. You said that when you were tracking your time it killed your idea, and that when you stopped tracking your time you became unfocused. Try letting AI classify your idea into a time-tracking bucket for you, and to generate a beginning of day report describing how you spent your time yesterday. If you write down your idea, then it'll be harder to forget it.…
I don't disagree that that might help. But I think this is more of a realization that I want to use AI... less?
Re: I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
#6Hey man, the best way to go about this — is to gamify your schedule and make your self do the items you desire to do. Whatever you plan for your day 8-9am every day, can be “read only” until you journal eod.
Trust me, I’m adhd. Good luck!
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#7i looked at the overall shape of the words and punctuation on this page and thought, oh this looks like adhd, let me scroll down... yup adhd. didnt read any of it though cause it reminds me of something that i need to do that ive never thought of before, so now i have to go do that thing
Re: I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
#8Hey man, the best way to go about this — is to gamify your schedule and make your self do the items you desire to do. Whatever you plan for your day 8-9am every day, can be “read only” until you journal eod. Trust me, I’m adhd. Good luck!
Also, thanks for bringing light to a significant issue / topic— I feel like there’s a lot of ….
solo standing, no corporate or faang job (at the moment, by decision) & “founding status” technical full stack eng.. but “pre-revenue” for whatever projects you passionately pursue regularly.
“If you can’t create the curriculum for the day, how can you expect to succeed eod”
Hence, you gotta make it fun for yourself.. the items you achieve and get done after, will be a piece of cake (8-9 write only, until eod, read only + journal: tom > today).
You got this!
Re: I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
#9Calendars can be powerful focusing tools.
It depends -- if you need something from someone else, setting a meeting and sitting with them until they give it to you can be really powerful.
Re: I stopped tracking my time. Now I can't focus
#10Calendars can be powerful focusing tools.
Indeed. I use mine to help me revisit languishing projects on a regular basis, and 'finish' them eventually! I can ignore anything on my calendar and work on whimsical things, but guilt eventually catches up and I acquiesce to the calendar's demands!