Questions regarding how to handle the use of time in one's life.
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How to keep up with smaller priorities when there are larger priorities?
I am having trouble balancing "little recurring tasks" with the more pressing, timely tasks.
Examples of little recurring tasks from my last semester:
Every Friday at 5PM I had 10 homework problems ...
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How to pace myself at work?
First of all, a little background:
I'm a programmer, developing web-based applications, working a full-time job for the first time in my life. I've been working in the area for a decade now, but ...
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How to manage undergraduate studies while working full time
I am doing my undergraduate while doing a full time job. My course is Computer science. I am also working as a software developer in a private company. I have big responsibilities at my work because ...
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I find it impossible to wake up early
Yes, I know, this has been asked many times before. So why do I make a new question about it?
Well it's simply because I've tried every technique there is (everything on here for example) and I. ...
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What software for Time Tracking and Billing?
A friend of mine is running a consultancy company and she needs software to manage the people that go to their customers. I've been using Project Management Software before, but this case is slightly ...
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How to utilize a 4 month pregnancy break such that the mind is rejuvenated? [migrated]
We can't plan outdoor trips. I'll be staying at home with only two people around (during day time) - me and the baby.
What and how activities should be planned during this break so that my mind is ...
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Overcome extreme laziness and increase productivity
How do I tackle extreme laziness to increase productivity? For example, here are some problems associated with it:
Writing down tasks to do, but executing none
Getting bored at all times
Feeling ...
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Do it yourself or delegate? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I decide when it's worth it to spend money to save time?
I found out that I'm a person who likes to do many things self but I found out that many people ...
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Single tasking vs Mulitasking
I'm a student and hoping to be an entrepreneur. Besides study I spend most of my time working on software development and recently thinking of organizing a team to work on the field of software and ...
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How do you organize your life in Asana?
I am looking forward to migrate fully to asana from Things because of pricing/costs reasons. What I have right now in Things (for Mac) is :
Today
Next
Scheduled
Someday
Projects
I have never used ...
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How to set/control my hours with a new employer?
When I start a new job I face a difficult time with hours.
I like to work from 7 or 8 (when it is nice and quiet) to 3 or 4 in the office and then do a bunch more at home.
These hours are not usually ...
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A time-management watch with alarms, timers and vibration?
I'm looking for a wrist-watch that can help me in various time-management tasks.
I'd like to
regularly write down what I'm doing (time logging) so I know where my time is going, the watch could ...
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Advantages of disconnected time
It's often recommended to 'unplug' - that is to switch off your emails and mobiles ect for a particular amount of time.
While the benifits of doing this socially are obvious, the benifits of doing ...
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Simple program with subtasks
I need a program (something similar to Google Tasks but with showing/hiding subtasks) with following functionality:
tasks
subtasks (with multiple level, so I can, say, create a task with 3 ...
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Shortcut to open a web Paymo timer
Is there a chrome extension or a bookmarklet to open Paymo timer?
I know a lot of people use this service for time tracking but you always have to go to the website first and click Timer button.
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Time tracking applications [closed]
What do you think about time tracking applications (application that log the activities of a person) ?
Do you think it is useful ?
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How do I use Evernote for college to keep track of homework?
I'm not using EN this quarter because my coursework is just Math and I cannot type math really fast. But all of my homework is done online, and there's a lot of homework. I've made written lists but ...
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Handling multiple projects
At my current company my programming position has recently changed. In the past it has been a technical/functional position where we choose the project to work on and followed it from blank IDE to ...
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Merge daily todo with project todo
I'm on a quest of finding the best tool to manage what I do.
TL;DR: Freelance web developer looking for tool to connect project management and daily tasks.
I like Getting Things Done methodology a ...
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How to spend less time cooking?
What are some good tips to streamline the process of preparing food?
While i enjoy cooking and eating fresh, the whole thing takes up a lot of time.
What do you do to speed that up? Do you prepare ...
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How to track time spent across individual websites?
I've used Rescue Time, but unfortunately, they don't offer the (free) ability to track time across your browsing, only showing that you were using a browser during that time.
I spend a lot of time ...
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How to deal with dreaded tasks?
How do you deal with difficult tasks, which take long to complete?
My problem, for example, are emails which require a lot of writing or research. They are not the main core of my work, and usually ...
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What to do when tired instead of surfing the internet?
After a full day, I am tired, and often end up mindlessly surfing the internet in the evening. It is the easiest thing to do when I've already made a lot of decisions during the day. Unfortunately, ...
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App to track activities and progress on them
I need to find application to track my activities and progress that I did on it (for example number of pages I read or exercises I did). I need to be able to look on what I spent last month for ...
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What does science say about productive learning time?
I wonder what science says about how to set learning time. Specificially I wonder about how to mix learning and free time. This is of course related to the attention span.
My rhythm looks the ...
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Why is my productivity the lowest in afternoon?
Is it just me or is productivity low in the afternoon for general population? I find that I'm unable to do simplest of tasks between 1pm and 5 pm.
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When do you update and study other material?
Considering an 8-9 hours a day in a job, you come home, you are tired, wanna listen to music, don't want to study anything new in CS, weekend comes, you never want to touch anything related to work, ...
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Which way to manage download and put them in workflow to install
i download many apps from links in this stack and then forget to install all of them is there any way to manage it?
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Cloud based Pomodoro client software exist?
is there any a cloud based Pomodoro client software which can Synchronized with all type of devices specially between laptops,mobile phones ,Destop Pc 's?.A software like Dropbox but a personal ...
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How do I become more agile in shifting between activities?
I really like being able to focus on one activity and only that for a prolonged period of time. I could spend days on end doing one type of activity as I feel that the longer I focus on it, the ...
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Looking for printable daily organizer/planner/scheduler for 2013
I am having a hard time searching for an electronic version (any file type that can be printed) of a daily planner. Paper version of these planners look something like this:
Only requirements for ...
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What is the efficient way to remember things we read?
I read variety of things in a day; But I forgot those things in a week or so. I identified that 'spaced repetition' will help me to keep remembering things. To do spaced repetition, i take note of ...
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Measuring Productivity Across Multiple Devices
How can I measure my productivity when using multiple devices? I'm a software developer, and I typically work in several virtual machines during the day. Is there a tool like RescueTime or ...
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How to stop your rss feeds becoming a mess/information overload?
So like probably many i use Google Reader to manage, read, filter my subscribed rss feeds. Subscribing only as much feeds as you can read doesnt really work. From time to time i delete some feeds, but ...
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Flexible time management software
I've been using RescueTime to track my productivity, it's so-so, needs a lots of setup.
What I need is a software which is flexible and web based
I can reach it from my phone and computer.
I can ...
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how to avoid temptations
well I usually do prepare a very good plan, but due to lot of temptations and their consuming nature and few of their execution I find discipline bit very hard in day to day life...
plans are ...
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How to study efficiently few days before the exams [considering that one hasn't throughly studied any subject by now]?
I am having exams in these two weeks. But I still haven't studied thoroughly on each subjects. For physics, I have spent more than a week studying electric charges, yes, only electric charges. I spent ...
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Multiple Projects Gantt Chart application for Mac
Is it there any Gantt Chart application for Mac OS X that allows dealing with Multiple Projects? Up to now I tested Omniplan, which looks very good for a single project, but can not work efficiently ...
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Sales Team Time Management Web Application?
I'm looking for a web app to manage my sales team, that contains functionality to assign appointments witt a customer to a specific seller.
I would prefer an opensource app.
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Windows Freeware/Shareware programs for tracking daily tasks?
I once had a cool little Java program that allowed me to name each task, and toggle back and forth between tasks to track the time spent on each. At the end of the day I could export the data and ...
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What are the techniques to sleep effectively
I often do programming tasks at night. When I'm working on a programming task, times I get Ideas and will implement them at a stretch. Subtle, I don't get Ideas that faster and I pause my task. ...
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How do you fill in the “dead” time when using a computer?
Working with a computer generates periods of "wasted" or "dead" time. I'm talking about the time during which the computer compiles your program, performs a sophisticated computation or downloads an ...
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Time management problem with pomodoro technique
I have used successfully the pomodoro technique for some time. I've found just one big problem that has caused a slight but constant loss of motivation in using it, causing in the end the need to stop ...
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How to manage multiple simultaneous private projects?
I have a number of private web design projects that I work on during my spare time. Non of the projects have any real deadline, other than my own urge to finish them.
As there is no real deadline, I ...
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How to prevent oneself from feeling overwhelmed?
Sometimes, there are a lot of things that you are expected to do and you just don't know where to begin.
You feel like you are being overwhelmed with a lot of tasks and deadlines.
How should one ...
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How to stop obsessing over my to-do list?
The past two years have been crazy. In 2010, I graduated from college and my now-husband and I purchased our home. In 2011, I started a master's degree and we got married. This year, I started a ...
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What is the best way to approach large tasks, such as reading scientific papers, that require intense focus?
I'm in graduate school, and part of my job is to read widely in my field. Scientific papers are very dense and I tend to read slow, so I average around 2-3 pages/hour. Consequently, long papers can ...
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One hour a day or 4 continuous hours a week for an activity?
Should I practice an activity, say drawing, programming, or even sport, in short day-sessions of one hour for example, or do it all at once in a week?
If I choose to do one hour a day, I might waste ...
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How do I gauge the effectiveness of my time management system?
I'm guessing a lot of people here have some sort of time management system. I'm curious what techniques people use to improve that system over time.
For me at work:
Weekly look at where I spent ...
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Are there any tips for studying and working at the same time?
Currently I'm a full time employee with the potential to improve myself. I've enrolled in a Master's degree program that will require me to take classes during working hours. For example, I will ...
