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How to deal with very short tasks with Pomodoro [duplicate]
Pomodoro encourages you to put interruptions into other tasks (more or less) but, sometimes, these new tasks can be very short - literally 5 minutes of work. Or 10.
If I am using a 25-5 work-break ...
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How to use pomodoro in a busy environment
I am a programmer working in an open-space environment. There are basically two types of people which make it difficult to use pomodoro:
Those, who want something completely trivial every 10 minutes ...
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Grasping new things quickly or in less time
I am 4yrs experience software engineer. When a new requirement comes or when I move to another project, I take a long time to understand the process/flow. So become helpless to work on any development ...
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How do I move from collecting ideas to executing projects?
I use Evernote as a way to record ideas and web clippings that interest me. Some are ideas for projects. Some are collections of ideas that relate to prospective projects. There are quotes, metaphors, ...
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Can writing also improve productivity in other non related personal areas apart from the project we are working
Can writing also improve productivity in other personal areas apart from the project we are working on
e.g :
Writing to improve food habits (making a diary of what you ate and corresponding ...
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Writing more in spite of laziness
I am a PhD student, and I have found that writing down my ideas and thoughts helps me discover new ideas which fascinate me. Such ideas would be difficult to generate just by thinking. Unfortunately, ...
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2answers
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Learning new material while being a Junior
I have been asked with a task that is about linux driver development and its so complex actually. I'm in the first two months of work, and I don't want say I do not know about this and my boss expects ...
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1answer
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If I can both sit and stand during an 8-hour day, what is the optimal balance of time sitting/standing?
So I have two desks right next to each other (actually, one is a regular desk and one is a refrigerator, my "standing desk"). I work from home, usually about 8 hours a day.
Is there any research ...
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How can I tell when my body is ready to sleep?
The problem is, due to caffeine usage I often end up going to bed too early and wasting time trying to fall asleep.
Are there any methods to find out whether my body is ready to fall asleep?
I ...
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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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5answers
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Hating sleep at night because of inadequate feeling of no achievement during the day
I've been having a hatred for sleep and when i mean hatred i mean a feeling of not wanting to fall asleep because i feel i've done nothing during the day to achieve my goals.
How can i stop feeling ...
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Should I keep revising?
Scenario:
I read about multithreading (one of the computer programming concept) aroung 10 months ago. I practiced it well, wrote around 5-6 articles with my own examples. It is one of my interesting ...
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How to safely and effectively ignore irrelevant external stimuli?
I have come to realize that a lot of mental energy and focus is wasted on the intake, filtering, and processing of what ends up considered completely useless sensory input. Things like various types ...
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3answers
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Going from idea to execution
I have a problem with not being able to move from idea to execution. By idea, I mean a detailed, specific plan on what to do and how to do it. I make lots of plans, but rarely follow through with ...
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3answers
130 views
How to concentrate again after getting stuck at some point
I'm a self-employed IT guy at the moment. My self discipline is quite decent usually, I plan and think a lot before implementing something. I got stuck at some point now, because I didn't foresee a ...
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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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Can I work more? [closed]
I know this seems more like a "law" question, but it seems they took that down. So I'll lean more on the "I want to be more successful in a work environment" side.
Here's the scenario: I am sixteen ...
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How to be productive in two different but equally demanding tasks
I am the owner of a small software development business, and most of the time I will have two general tasks to perform:
The task of managing my company, usually it has to do with talking to my ...
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5answers
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Problem of falling asleep after intense study
I always find problem in falling asleep after intense brainstorming.
I feel some fuzzy doodle of some irregular thoughts going on in my brain. The thoughts change very quickly from one to another and ...
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39 views
Software to plan lab experiments
I am searching for a (free) software to plan lab experiments. These experiments can stretch over several days but only need attention on some of them. So the feature I am searching for is to define ...
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11answers
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Why do I start wasting time when I am excited about learning some technical stuff?
I make plans, todo lists, etc. about the technical stuff which I have to study.
I am not, but I do wish to become an excellent C++ programmer.
Now, *
(when I am pretty excited about learning the ...
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4answers
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Managing emails
I am an IT professional. I get around 20-30 mails per day related to my work or general company updates/processes. I have always lacked in effectively managing my mails so I can quickly search a mail ...
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What can I do during the breaks between the stressful long study hours that would not be counterproductive?
Playing computer games during the breaks would not certainly be productive to do between the long study hours. Watching TV will also not be a good idea (it will jam the brain further, I guess). ...
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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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Is there such a thing as a package receiving service?
Is there such a thing as a monthly fee/rent-based service that gives you a "virtual" address to which you can ship your packages, and pick them up at your convenience? Something that would eliminate ...
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2answers
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How to solve the dillemma of shorter-time versus deeper-understanding?
When we studied undergraduate, we were always in a dilemma of shorter-time versus deeper-understanding.
For example, to complete the whole study material we always had few hours in our hand. If we ...
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What should be the basic technique to study complex study materials?
What should be the basic technique to approach complex study materials?
Moreover, how to remember study materials which contain lots of mathematical equations or calculations?
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2answers
156 views
How to measure/increase productivity
I am an individual contributor in the team working from off-shore. My manager is onsite and he assigns work to be on calls. The project is in very initial stage so I am mostly doing POC's. However, I ...
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1answer
96 views
Learning methodology for software developer?
I am a beginner in software development. I've started learning algorithms, networking and software development practices from various books. My seniors advised me to read one book and learn one thing ...
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OmniFocus: Automatically make next sibling action/task due-dated after closing previous task
I have a nested action in OmniFocus. The first task in the list has a due date today. I would like the second task obtains due date "tomorrow" automatically after I close the fist task.
I know how to ...
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3answers
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Time management strategies for computer science students
Over the past few months, I've been contributing to both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow, and working on open source software projects. However, I've found that my obsession with software development has ...
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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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9answers
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Trying to achieve inbox zero in Gmail
I have a rather unruly inbox at this point. There's probably at least a thousand messages in there, with 300 or so of them unread. I'm trying to find ways to achieve inbox zero. As part of this I want ...
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How to not be too nice or too harsh?
I have two really disturbing personalities which I need advice on shaking off. When I meet new people which by the way I am really good at. I either come off as being too friendly, in which case they ...
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Would Like To Be A Better Person In Life [closed]
I'am 28 now and i have the tendency to take everything for granted.I have always been extremely ignorant about numerous things that one would encounter in his/her life like studies,taking care of ...
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App that has nice separate lists for tasks and goals?
Is their any app (Web based, Android, iPhone, anything) which enables a person to manage both - his tasks and his goals, without mixing them up.
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How to become a proactive rather than a reactive (lazy) learner?
My whole life I have been a reactive, lazy learner. What that means is that more or less any knowledge I ever acquired came in one of the three possible manners:
Someone madated a task for whose ...
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How to solve my personal issues to be productive and happy person
Until two years ago, I was a positive thinker, easily forgot petty issues, and was productive. After that I started studying for a masters in Computer Science and started a full time job. This means I ...
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Does changing keystone habits really help bring bigger changes? [closed]
Keystone habits were described in The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. The idea is that instead of a changing the big habits in life we should focus on small seemingly inconsequential habits and work ...
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Time-variation in pomodoro technique?
I have just started using the pomodoro technique. However, often after a 30 min work interval (I have changed the 25 minute interval to 30), I often don't feel exhausted and think I could go on ...
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How to control or change habits?
I don't know what I need to write here, but I am explaining everywhere what I feel and think.
Everyone has some habits that may be good or bad. But firstly I want to control or change some of my ...
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3answers
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Tools to represent skills in a graphical way with rating
I have been reading self-assessment articles for few days. I have been thinking to create a nice graphical representation (Venn diagram) of my skill set (input) along with level of expertise for each ...
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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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Improve productivity in a non will job
I need help. I am a software engineer but i didn't opt for this career by will. I did it because of family pressure. I wanted to be a cricketer.
I have got good results in all my exams and also been ...
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How to stop worrying on petty issues?
This has been one of my biggest flaw since my childhood. I usually keep worrying about small issues, which brings me into lots of tension, but actually nothing happens. I keep on worrying about what ...
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How do I get back to doing what I love?
A little background. I started coding in C++ about 5 years ago. Ever since then, I was sure that I wanted a life in code :) In my last 2 semesters, I wrote quite a bit of code for varied purposes.
...
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Keeping track of emails, notes, files, and deliverables for a project
Is there anything better than Basecamp?
Basecamp seems to have all the features I'm looking for in a project manager, but it requires a ton of tedious little interactions with its web GUI: uploading ...
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Where should I take (and store) notes during meetings on different subjects?
I've got various meetings on a variety of subjects. In some I take a lot of notes, in others, not so much.
How should I manage/organize these notes? I don't want to have a separate notebook for each ...
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Do simple diets help our mental productivity?
I am a mathematician and so I am interested in every way possible to increase all my mental powers and abilities (memory, creativity, concentration, etc). I have tried several different diets and life ...
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What are the milestones of an idea from insight to feedback?
I'm trying to build a board of ideas in which any invited participant can pitch in contributions. It should be easy to tell in what level of progress each idea is and that is what I'm naming ...
