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- April 19, 2006
“Back in my day, the Internet was hard work”
April 19, 2006Read moreToday’s Diesel Sweeties comic strip reminds me just how far the Internet has evolved. “We had to read our porn and use our imaginations!”
- April 19, 2006
Example of the Emergent Task Timer
April 19, 2006Read more
With regards to the Emerging Task Timer, Friðrik Már Jónsson asked:
Is there any chance you could post an example sheet, possibly showing what to do with the area below or what the three boxes in the beginning of each row are for.
Ask and you shall receive! :o) Click on the image to see a larger instructional GIF. This is referring to the wide version, which I have been continuing to tweak.
On a side note:
I’m finding the number of bubbles tedious to deal with.
Also, still trying to figure out a better way of representing the hour markers (probably should center a small box over the divider). From an information design perspective, these kind of alignment decisions reduce the confusion between “node” and “boundary”, which leads to “off-by-one” type errors.FIXED!!! - April 19, 2006
MacPro XP Adobe Benchmarks
April 19, 2006Read moreThese benchmarks of various Adobe Suite products on a MacBook Pro running Windows XP are very tasty. Running Windows XP, the dual-core MacBook runs pretty much head-to-head with a dual-G5 desktop Mac, which bodes well for universal binary versions of the suite. A MacBook Pro is increasingly looking like my next laptop, even if I end up running XP on it most of the time until I transition out of PC-land. Via Creative Mac.
- April 18, 2006
Emergent Task Tracker: Some Tweaks
April 18, 2006Read moreAfter trying out the original form for a day. Ugh.
- I was a little shocked to see how many side items like email, AIM, website stats checking, etc were pulling me away. It wasn’t a very productive day.
I ran out of slots to track the various items, and had to double them up.
I’m also not restricted to an 8-hour day.
I’m tracking my sleeping cycles, which are really weird right now.
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p>I’ve made a wider version (ETT02) than accomodates 12 hours a day and 12 items. It also reformats the notes area a bit to make it more suitable for taking notes on particular parts of the day.
I also squeezed out some of the extraneous text to maximize the amount of available space. It’s a little more cramped, but I find it also strangely appealing. There’s something about that big grid of bubbles that is triggering something primal :-)
» Download The Emergent Task Timer (12-hour) »
PCEO-ETT02-StandardWide.pdf» Read about the original Emergent Task Timer » More on The Printable CEO Series
- April 17, 2006
The Printable CEO™ III: Emergent Task Timing
April 17, 2006Read more
Last winter, buddy Brad was telling me about the wonders of his egg timer tracking method, which used said timer with a to-do list. This memory came back to me lately, as I’ve been feeling “blah” about doing task management. I know generally what I have to do, but am just not feeling like making a plan. I just want to start working on something and see where the time goes. And this is how the Emergent Task Timer was born: half timesheet, half diagnostic tool.
