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.
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Date: 2005-07-08 07:45 am (UTC)This is optional, of course... and it would happen the other way around: you call the window from within each goal. If you open the window from the context of the project, it's automatically classified as a subgoal of the project (although it is possibly a sub...subgoal). Windows in "off time" (i.e. outside of any project) are not classified.
On the other hand, if you allow something innocent like following a link to be OK, it's easy enough to wander off.
There are ways to tell you've wandered off, and the machine can warn you if you've spent too much time in "off time".