My Operating Framework, Draft 1
Most of my productivity forms are based on how I understand the production process. It occurred to me that I should write it down to use as a map. Click to download the PDF.
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Taco: One Productivity App to Rule Them All?
Troy Davis, creator of the cloud-based logging service Papertrail, suggested that I might find his current Kickstarter of interest. Taco is a meta-service that aggregates all your to-dos, tickets, and tasks from other services into one place where you can see everything. There’s a video on their Kickstarter page that gives a murky glimpse at [...]
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I received a comment about the vertical orange bubble columns, which I use to visually split the day into a morning, afternoon, and evening. The comment was that the reader’s day didn’t align with these periods for lunch regularly, and therefore implied a kind of structure. I didn’t want to add vertical alternating background columns [...]
Reader Nancy solved a problem with the hour columns in the revised for 2013 Emergent Task Timer. The hours are now written in directly above each column, instead of over the hour boundaries; the image above shows the difference. It’s subtle, but I think it makes it a lot easier to make the connection between [...]
I’ve been tracking my time to see if my “feeling unproductive” was supported by data; as I wrote in the Assessment section of last week’s Groundhog Day Resolutions Review, it seemed possible that I was over-emphasizing the number of negative moments and creating a false sense of slackness. I’ve been using the Emergent Task Timer [...]
Time Analysis Week
I've been using the Emergent Task Timer this week to see if I am really as unproductive as I think I've been.
CommentYesterday I outlined the observations I’d made over two weeks of a productivity reboot. The nebulous goal: merely to feel more productive, which I thought would come from getting more done. I knew I wasn’t being specific about the details, but I figured that just having a visible commitment of some kind might help. I [...]
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Margo said
on June 17, 2013 The Emergent Task Timer: Revised for 2013 Thank you for creating so many wonderful and very useful products. Too often, what I plan doesn'... -
Troy Davis said
on June 16, 2013 Taco: One Productivity App to Rule Them All? Hi Lynn, Thanks for the comments. I think you're right to start out with a cautious attitude, es... -
Lynn O'Connor said
on June 15, 2013 The Emergent Task Timer: Revised for 2013 Another comment worth mentioning: When one of my clients (and this is not unusual) is having tro... -
on June 15, 2013 The Emergent Task Timer: Revised for 2013 I use the ETT on and off --whenever I'm wondering "Where is my time going?" or when I'm worrying ...
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