On Procrastination

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23 points·raleec··7 comments

Basically, the article says David Allen is right. Getting Things Done is a religion to many, but for me it was a collection of a bunch of little tips that really did help. For $9 its worth a read.

I've also read David Allen's book -- excellent stuff. So far I've found his method of using a Someday/Maybe list to be extremely freeing (though I must admit that the list is growing ridiculously long). I've pretty much got the "get everything out of your head" part down, now I need to work on the actual "getting things done" part. :)

If you use OS X, there is an excellent app built around the GTD methodology called OmniFocus (if you also have an iPhone, there's also an iPhone app that syncs with the desktop app). Both are very well worth the money.

i actually thought about creating a proxy server that monitors access to sites and reduces access to say the top 25 sites, to times during lunchtime etc. i.e parental filters for grown ups.

where the idea falls down is, that for the target audience here, rather than do the work they were supposed to be doing, they would spend the time to get around the proxy server.. :/

This company is obsessed with the topic of procrastination. They devoted a week to it on Slate.

I wish that I can actually read all the stories in HN tomorrow instead of now.

http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

I'm sure this was intended as a joke but it was an actual issue for me, since I sometimes can't read an entire article without looking suspiciously inactive at work. :-)

I use an add-on for Firefox called "Read it Later" (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7661) and sync it with my Firefox at home. Sometimes I build quite a collection.

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