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Vibram fivefingers comments on Image Chef

Vibram fivefingers — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:05:56 +0000

Jim R comments on Time management when retired - update

Jim R — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:28:12 +0000

Mark Forster,

Hope things are going well with your new system. Enjoying the retired life I hope ;)

Caneel Joyce comments on Qlockwork v. 2

Caneel Joyce — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:40:03 +0000

I swear by RescueTime (http://rescuetime.com). It's web-based, but collects data about apps, websites, and file names you work on, and can sync across multiple computers. Tracking file names only works with the paid version, but the features, graphs and analytics on the free version are sa-weet! Helped me a lot in fighting procrastination when I was writing my dissertation.

Allows you to set goals about how much to use (or not use) specific programs and when, lets you say how valuable specific activities are (or use their auto-generated best guesses, which are pretty spot-on), and lets you compare your own efficiency (value of activities/time spent) to others. The little app that sits on your desktop also has a "focus" feature that blocks web access for a certain amount of time,

fotografvmj comments on Blog Posting by Email

fotografvmj — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:38:11 +0000

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Michiko comments on Italian version of "Do It Tomorrow" now on sale

Michiko — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:22:06 +0000

Thanks Marc, I've learnt a lot from your suggestions - and many thanks to the italian translator too!
Looking forward to see you in Italy, will you?

Roger J comments on The List for Tomorrow

Roger J — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:41:50 +0000

Nelda:
My system is more a case of appointments and reminders ONLY go into a diary/schedule (I'm using Office/Outlook 2010).

Of course, I may put a task into my DWM/AF list, 'Reminder: draft report ready by 31 July 2010', then use Outlook Task reminder to bring it up on a date before that.

I'm also setting aside some blocks of time in the schedule to focus on certain tasks or groups of tasks.

A recent addition to my system (DWM) is to create a Daily Closed List of tasks that I feel MUST be done on the day, work tasks list from the top down, personal tasks from the bottom up, both on the same page in a Moleskine pocket notebook. Such target tasks are culled from my main DWM (or AF if you use that) list.

For the main DWM/AF list, I have moved since the very beginning of AF from A4 to A5, to Moleskine Large (about A5), and now to Moleskine pocket book; both the DWM and Daily Closed List notebooks are in my shirt pocket.

Nelda comments on The List for Tomorrow

Nelda — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:42:03 +0000

I can't recall if you've spoken about this sometime before. Do you also use a Planner or Calendar ONLY for appointments or things to be done at a specific day or hour? And, of course, use the AF4 for everything else? Thanks.

Jupiter comments on The Four Quadrants (A Different Version)

Jupiter — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:57:43 +0000

The method doesnt belong to covey.
IT comes from eisenhower.
The legend says that he prepared the french liberation with it. I used it years ago i found it nice for big rocks but difficult with tasks. The difficulty is to choose betwwen tasks a,b,c a(urgent and important) is ok urgent but not important is ok too important things are difficult because the help to succed tasks a and they must be done on time blocked.

tony comments on Qlockwork v. 2

tony — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:59:28 +0000

Re Erin Ferree's request for a similar program for the Mac:

I know of nothing exactly the same, but VITAMIN-R runs as a timer (you set the length of the time slots) and a record of your motivation on particular tasks.

Seraphim comments on The Four Quadrants (A Different Version)

Seraphim — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:09:07 +0000

Mark already described all this above. Here's a semi-graphical attempt to do the same.

1 | 2
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3 | 4

Important
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Not important

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Urgent | Not Urgent
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Q1: Important and Urgent

Q2: Important but Not Urgent -- for most people, their "real work" is here but you have to be pro-active to deal with it

Q3: Urgent but not important -- the urgency draws our attention but we need to resist it

Q4: Not urgent and not important