Tweet Prof. John Perry (Standford) might be onto something with his Structured Procrastination idea: the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important. Source: Structured Procrastination Now, if only someone came up with a way to use Structured Procrastination to increase productivity, [...]
Archive for September, 2006
September 20, 2006
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Speed-reading with Spreeder
By jose in Computing tips, ReadingTweet Some programs out there offer you the possibility of reading faster by avoiding eye movements and backtracking. The two most popular ones (web-based) are spreeder and ZAP Reader. Some links on the technology: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Serial_Visual_Presentat… http://news.com.com/2100-1046_3-5785579.html http://www.buddybuzz.net/rel/Web/index.html The experience is jarring (as if reading online wasn’t hard enough on the eyes), but it does seem to decrease [...]
September 2, 2006
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Download: toDoList (Windows)
By jose in Software, Time managementTweet This is a review of toDoList, a free, open source program to organize your tasks. It is very flexible and configurable and has replaced my main organized, a program that I believed suited me perfectly.
September 1, 2006
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Productive blogging for a productivity blog
By shane in Announcements, BlogTweet When we first discussed the idea of academic productivity blog, our first thoughts were about the irony of it – how would writing a blog about productivity increase my productivity? And we were blogging about productivity rather than working, surely we wouldn’t be best placed person to give productivity advice? If you really want [...]