Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
Q: What is an auto-scheduler? A: It’s a kind of advanced calendar which has the power to schedule itself. Slowly but surely, these AI-powered calendar apps are making their way into the lives of early adopters. They are looking for a way to boost the number of tasks they can manage effectively. Taking over the …
Continue reading “The Games Users Play Using Auto-Schedulers for Their Calendars”
Many software and hardware designers are hoping to hit it rich by replacing the top time management apps: Outlook, Google and Lotus. These global products account for billions of users which means that replacing them isn’t easy. Much of the challenge boils down to replacing habits users employ every day in their struggle to be …
Continue reading “The Science of Designing Hot, New Products for Better Time Management”
Recently I submitted an article I hope will be published by the Harvard Business Review blog having to do with performing an analysis of your productivity system before buying and trying to implement a new gadget. I know… it sounds so blindingly obvious when I put it this way… analysis before purhase… except that most …
Continue reading “How to Decide – Will a Tablet Help or Hurt My Productivity?”
A recent series of 2 articles by Peter Denning in the Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery included many ideas covered by us here at 2Time Labs. He starts off in Part 1 by saying that many computing professionals have a great challenge with time management and shares their “laments about information overload, about …
Continue reading “Why IT Professionals Need to Pay Attention to Time Management”
One of the ideas that we promote here at 2Time Labs is that each person needs a time management system that effectively allows them to handle the number of time demands that show up in their life on a daily basis. The corollary to this statement is the idea that each person doesn’t necessarily need …
I took the following notes from a source that I seem to have lost: Professionals over-estimate what they can get done in a day, but under-estimate what they can get done in a week. Has anyone ever heard this quote before? Does it ring true from your experience? Any evidence to back it up? As …
A major focus of Wu’s research as outlined in Temporal Structures in Individual Time Management: practices to enhance calendar tool design, is on the paucity of tools that exist to manage our schedules. She decries the fact that electronic calendars do little more than mimic paper calendars, and offer little functionality in important areas. She …
Continue reading “Dezhi Wu on the Calendar Tools We Really Need #4”
Once again, I am tinkering with my time management system. A little background… the belt system set up here at 2Time Labs describes skills ranging from White, Yellow, Orange and Green belts. It goes no further than these 4 skill levels because I wanted to be able to set higher belts, as they are discovered …
Continue reading “What I’m Learning from Doing Better Reviews”
Background: As you may know, I spent months describing all the ways in which I observed a relatively new phenomena – smartphone abuse. I then embarked on a process to choose one for myself in a way that I hoped would enhance my productivity, rather than turn me into an habitual drive-and-text offender. I have …
As I dug through academic papers on the topic of time management over the past few days, I came across a journal article that was simply amazing in its prescience. It was written by Steve Whittaker and Candace Sidner of Lotus Development Corp (now part of IBM.) It was published in 1996, and they also …
Continue reading “1999 Email Research is Still Timely and Relevant”