planning and time management software
Jul. 7th, 2005 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslDoes anyone know of software to keep me focused on my goals, preventing me from wasting time?
This software would make my current goal (or goal-stack) *always* visible, so that it's hard for me to get distracted from my goal. It would keep track of my time spent on each goal (I could type in a sentence every half hour for annotation); to take a break from working towards a goal, I would tell the software that now I'm spending a few minutes "off-task".
The planning part would consist of a set of projects (set of goal trees), with daily and weekly reporting on the goals: whether they were reached, and if not why.
I think such a self-feedback system would make the whole thing more fun, like a videogame: you have a clear challenge.
Ideally, everything I do, every program I open, every browser window and email, would fall under a goal. Each project would be like a Unix Workspace, so when you're working in a certain project, you will *NOT* see any distracting information unrelated to the current project.
I could probably be at least 3 times as productive if I had such a system.
This software would make my current goal (or goal-stack) *always* visible, so that it's hard for me to get distracted from my goal. It would keep track of my time spent on each goal (I could type in a sentence every half hour for annotation); to take a break from working towards a goal, I would tell the software that now I'm spending a few minutes "off-task".
The planning part would consist of a set of projects (set of goal trees), with daily and weekly reporting on the goals: whether they were reached, and if not why.
I think such a self-feedback system would make the whole thing more fun, like a videogame: you have a clear challenge.
Ideally, everything I do, every program I open, every browser window and email, would fall under a goal. Each project would be like a Unix Workspace, so when you're working in a certain project, you will *NOT* see any distracting information unrelated to the current project.
I could probably be at least 3 times as productive if I had such a system.