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Now that it's September I finally need to get off my butt and start contributing to the world at large again. That means being productive.
I give you: My personal homebrew system, Stone Age Productivity. It has 3 parts:
Todo list
Calendar
Personal journal
I give you: My personal homebrew system, Stone Age Productivity. It has 3 parts:
Todo list Calendar Personal journal
A natural 2x2Â falls out when you organize tasks by how clear you are on their start/end times (or the amount of time they'll actually take), and how clear it is in a non-time sense that you've started or finished it.
I call these two axes time and task delimitation.
I call these two axes time and task delimitation.
To-do lists shine for things with high task delimitation, which is the bulk of the stuff that I do.
You can often increase the taskiness of a thing by breaking it down GTD style into the smallest possible X-minute steps (start with X=10, adjust to experience).
You can often increase the taskiness of a thing by breaking it down GTD style into the smallest possible X-minute steps (start with X=10, adjust to experience).
Calendars shine for things with high time delimitation.
I don't have a lot of those, but there are similar tricks to increase the time-pressure on things. (This is basically my use case for Beeminder.)
I don't have a lot of those, but there are similar tricks to increase the time-pressure on things. (This is basically my use case for Beeminder.)
Things which are _both_ highly task and time delimited are best assigned to whichever you personally like using more.
I like using todo lists more, but there's also something freeing about just boxing our time on a calendar and setting a timer.
I like using todo lists more, but there's also something freeing about just boxing our time on a calendar and setting a timer.
Things which are _neither_ highly task or time delimited are dangerous. In my experience these are often the kinds of background processes that only really begin to add up to something beautiful in the long run.
So they go in the personal journal.
So they go in the personal journal.
The personal journal is a charnel ground for anything which crosses your mind, but which you haven't for whatever reason fleshed out to the point where you are motivated to spend at least X minutes on it yet. (Same X as before, yeah.)
Mine it whenever you feel like for insight.
Mine it whenever you feel like for insight.
This system is app-agnostic.
For me, I use Todoist, Google Calendar, and a Moleskine hard cover notebook. (I like the physical paper notebook because it requires me to slow down and process whatever I'm writing better. Plus it's fun to do things with your hands)
For me, I use Todoist, Google Calendar, and a Moleskine hard cover notebook. (I like the physical paper notebook because it requires me to slow down and process whatever I'm writing better. Plus it's fun to do things with your hands)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Foi6mmbkWj6QBLWsP/productivity-task-vs-time-delimitation
Link to an old article I wrote on task vs time
Link to an old article I wrote on task vs time
âHow I currently use Todoist Premiumâ by Andrew Quinn https://link.medium.com/5loo6dl3r9
Link to an even older article on how I use Todoist Premium, but this is needlessly granular lol. I don't use it like this anymore.
Link to an even older article on how I use Todoist Premium, but this is needlessly granular lol. I don't use it like this anymore.
