Questions regarding how to handle the use of time in one's life.
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How to be productive when relaxing?
Let's say I work at my most productive hours and I do a lot of work. At a certain point, I will become tired. Self-discipline might make me work for another hour or so but after that the quality of ...
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How do you estimate time for a new task?
I have designed a site using WordPress. This was just a test WordPress site.
I am now okay with the coding in PHP, JavaScript, CSS, and WordPress. Now my senior wants me, just by looking at a JPEG ...
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Task timer tool [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows Freeware/Shareware programs for tracking daily tasks?
Is there a simple tool to manage/track individual tasks with start/stop timer? i.e. when I start a task, I ...
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Is it a bad idea to work in the evenings or at night?
Sometimes when I'm bored I work in the evenings and even into the night on work related projects. Is this a bad thing?
Will it harm future productivity during the day? Should you strictly limit ...
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How can I deal with others who have different personal productivity goals?
I have many interests in personal productivity. I don't like to waste time so I sometimes pass up social events (going out or to bars) for 'bettering myself' through some extra work on a weekend ...
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Any calendar app that enforces free time, gaps between meetings?
Does anyone know of a calendar application that will warn me if I have violated the following conditions?
Too many appointments have been scheduled on a given day
Too many appointments have been ...
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Tips to get back a healthy “Early to bed,early to rise regime”
I feel a little bit of a back-story is necessary here:
I was an under-grad student up until last year. I had this habit of sleeping way too late and waking up with time enough to get to classes on ...
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How to code faster?
I am really behind on my schoolwork (a result of both procrastination and my disability) and I need to finish 4 programming assignments in 5 days. Usually each assignment take me two days to do, ...
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how can i design forms like this [closed]
i see such awesome personal productivity forms here.
http://davidseah.com/productivity-tools/
How can i design a form like this?
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Boosting Energy
I have a real bad tendency to take long naps when I am tired. Is there anyway to restore my energy after study for a long period of time without napping or using caffeine?
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Checking your work over and over again
When I was in college writing papers I would literally write one sentence, then go back and re-read the entire paper that I had written up to that point. I would do this over and over again.
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Catching up a whole field in science with textbooks and videos of lectures
For a future research project I need to grasp as all of the information I can and concepts over condensed matter physics (with my current background I am fairly familiar with the mathematics and ...
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Can working less get more work done?
I wonder if it is possible to get more done by working less.
Lets say that on a normal day: I work 8 hours and finish 10 units of work.
If I work less in a day, there are 3 possibilities:
I finish ...
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How can I use the travel time (car driving) efficiently?
My job requires me to drive about 30 minutes to the firm and 30 minutes back to home.
How can I use this otherwise wasted time efficiently?
Do you have special audio CD's or tracks you do listen to in ...
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How often should you take breaks for maximum productivity?
When working on a project, how often should you take breaks and for how long for maximum productivity? Are there any studies or research on optimal use of breaks (universally), or is it more of a ...
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Finding the most efficient way to do something
I have over the last few months noticed that there are many different, more effective and more efficent means of doing things then the way the general population does them.For example, learning the ...
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Balancing time and quality
Are there any proven or benchmarked methodologies that can be leveraged to balance the challenge between maintaining quality in spite of strict timeline through a disciplined and consistent approach? ...
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What's the most effective studying method?
I study at a high school/college and I'll soon have my exams period.
I was wondering what is the best way to study, given that I want to get the most use out of my time.
What should I pay attention ...
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Where can I get a custom designed notebook from?
There are people out there who are just like me. We rarely memorize information just for the purpose of having it. We use Google to know things and we look things up as we need them. We are those ...
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Site with examples of templates for day planner?
I have developed my own template to use each day. It is personalized to account for routine tasks, emergent tasks, a to-do section for ASAP/tomorrow/this week/long term items, along with a section ...
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Dealing with massive amounts of emails
I have two personal email accounts I have somewhat neglected, and they currently have a massive amount of email in them.
I am wanting to implement something like Inbox Zero with these two accounts,as ...
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What do I do with abandoned pomodoros?
This morning I decide to try applying the Pomodoro time boxing technique in my coding, but using it for software development raises some questions I would like to try and resolve before continuing.
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How to organize my gaming time?
I see all kinds of people (including some of my friends) that simply don't know when to stop playing (for instance, wake up, play WoW, eat , play WoW, eat, play WoW , sleep). Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
I ...
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How to schedule your time in a crisis?
You have 4 months until the university admission exam. You forgot most of the stuff you will be tested (from 3 years of not using the concepts) and your only possibility of reviewing the forgotten ...
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Time tracker that notifies you when you spend more than x hours at computer?
Sometimes I spend too much time at the computer and I need something to remind me to do the "other" stuff.
I am looking for some kind of alarm that would work as a Chrome extension or Linux ...
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Dealing with distractions from GMail
GMail is my office mail. A lot of my work has pieces where I need some information from email or replying to email. I go into gmail to search for something or send a reply to an email and then end up ...
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How to manage long term projects?
I do very well in short projects or things that need to be done for a short term. But I procrastinate when I have very large projects or lengthy things to do. I kinda lack persistence. What is the ...
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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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How big is your backlog and how do you manage it?
How big is your backlog and how do you keep it under control? Do you actually keep track and do all of it, or do you have a method of eliminating old but valid tasks such as declaring e-mail ...
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How to efficiently use time during a long bus trip?
I will be going on a bus tour of Europe soon. I'll spend some time looking out the window or chatting with the other people, but we'll be spending a lot of time travelling. I can spend time reading ...
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How can I decide when it's worth it to spend money to save time?
I've recently started thinking that I should spend more money in order to save time. Examples of this include:
paying to get my laundry done instead of doing it myself
sometimes taking a taxi ...
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How do I log and track all my Firefox tabs I want to come back to with out leaving them open or bookmarking them?
I have a tendency to open numerous tabs in Firefox and leave them open , mainly because I've found things interesting or useful and want to be able to refer back to them. However having hundereds open ...
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How do I prevent myself from feeling too relaxed during the uneventful weeks preceding big deadlines?
The situation goes like so: big deadline one month from now. So I make some plan. But it gets too easy to procrastinate early on, to put one thing off, to allow a distraction here & there.
How ...
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Recording personal progress on activities (projects)
A month ago I decided to record my progress on my personal activities (goals, projects). I have many such activities and usually I work on the activity I have taste for, or how things develop during ...
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How to prepare a course or a talk?
In one week from now I am holding a course in computer programming, which takes place twice a week. The course has 30 participants. It is the first time I am holding a course.
Now I have to prepare ...
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Desktop app/group of apps for todo list/time management
I use Listhings in my browser to make sticky notes and remind myself about stuff.
I am looking for an app/group of desktop apps for the same purposes.
What I want the app to be like:
Desktop ...
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Examples of Productive use of TextExpansion software
I've heard from a few sources who wax lyrical about how text expansion software has been for them - but I'm struggling to find good uses for it - the only use I can see is to save me writing out my ...
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Why do we waste time? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make myself stop doing addictive activity?
I know that I should be working now. Yet I watch funny videos, read the news and browse interesting links.
Why is it ...
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Time limit/allocation for chores?
For the sake of a more definitive question, I define chores as domestic tasks that are recurring, generally unenjoyable and have no hard datelines. The conditions are such that available manpower is ...
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Which one you prefer? 2 style of count-down Timer for Pomodoro Technique [closed]
Previously I posted an article to ask for review of my pomodoro app. I'm making a new design as an alternative to taskbar timer.
As pomodoro technique users, which one do you prefer as a timer on ...
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What software helps organize and manage practice routines?
I have a practice routine I would like to manage using software.
I have several sequential daily and weekly tasks that are flexible in there time(for example, it maybe be a 30min task but can be more ...
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Online calendars. How long before the event do you set up the notification? [closed]
For example, if you make an event in Google Calendar or Yahoo Calendar, do you make the notification with 1 hour, 2 hours, a day before or at the same time? I know it depends on the event, but I ask ...
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How to be more productive at my own side project while having a family and a full-time job?
I have a 9-6 full time job and trying to develop a project on my own. I can only work on it during my off hours, meaning after 7pm.
It looks like I have full 5 hours till midnight, but after dinner ...
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What to do while compiling?
Reading about producitivity lately, it seems that multi-tasking is a bad strategy* (and I certainly feel that it contributes to stress), but I'm not sure how to avoid it when working on legacy ...
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How can I make my evening work time more productive?
I have always been at my most productive in the morning. However I have recently had a child which has required that I rearrange my schedule somewhat. I still wake as early as possible and get work ...
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How do other parents find the time?
I've been a father for several years and I find that my most productive personal hours outside of typical work day are between the hours of 9:30-11pm. Everything before that is consumed by work, ...
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What to do when you have a lot things *you* want to do and you want to do it all, without letting nothing left?
I don't have any technique or something that I follow.
I normally jump from one thing to other, sometimes having dozens of tabs opened in my browser (more than 50 some times) and even using different ...
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What is Gathering Point in Time Management?
What is exactly Gathering Point in Time Management?
What is the benefits of Gathering Points?
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How much time is reasonable Internet usage on a daily basis? [closed]
There is a cartoon showing a guy sitting in front of his PC shouting to his wife, "This is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet". This could just as easily be, "I haven't finished reading the ...
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Under the Pomodoro Technique, what should I do if I know something will interrupt a pomodoro?
I looked in The Pomodoro Technique book and didn't see this referenced, but what should you do if you know you can't finish a Pomodoro? Let's just say I'm using 25 minute work blocks and 5 minute rest ...
