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1. David Wilson (daviwil@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 13:39:43 CET David Wilson

   This week I'm embarking on a plan to get my workflow under control.

   I tend to let myself dive too deeply into whatever I'm absorbed in at the moment, letting other responsibilities slide. That's obviously not a good way to operate. It's had a noticeable impact on my health over the last few months.

   The new aim is to introduce more discipline into my process to achieve consistent results with less intensity. I'll write about it more once the details of the plan are clear.

   • David Wilson (daviwil@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 13:39:42 CET David Wilson

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     • Ivan Tomica

     @ivan yep, with time boxing I always end up feeling like I don't accomplish enough, but I know that it helps to load balance things better!

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 13:39:42 CET Sacha Chua

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     • Ivan Tomica

     @daviwil @ivan I also get tempted to hyperfocus and go down rabbit holes. It's efficient, since it's easier to keep going on a task when you have the context in your head. One of the things that helped me stay on track with the prep for EmacsConf was making a good/better/best table ( https://emacsconf.org/2022/organizers-notebook/#overall ). Then I could see that I shouldn't spend a lot of time taking something from "better" to "best" if some other aspect still needed work to get to "good".

   • Ivan Tomica (ivan@tomica.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 13:39:43 CET Ivan Tomica

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     @daviwil I think every geek has this problem. Becomes easier as soon as you time-box yourself to a certain activity. But then this "I have accomplished nothing" feeling starts to creep in. So I still periodically let myself wander and do the things I am most passionate about without limits. Interested to see what your approach will be. I could probably learn a thing or two :-)

   • Sacha Chua (sachac@emacs.ch)'s status on Monday, 05-Dec-2022 13:42:33 CET Sacha Chua

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     • Ivan Tomica

     @daviwil @ivan Org Mode clocking is a great help for timeboxing. I have it set up to prompt me for an Effort property when I clock in, and then Org warns me if the time elapsed is past that effort estimate so that I can check in with myself. It's also easy to jump to recently-clocked tasks and to capture new tasks (including tasks that link to the current one), so that helps me manage my stack of task interruptions.