Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
In prior posts I have made the point that Outlook and Gmail have become much more than email programs. While they both started out as email managers, they have become the primary portals that people use to manage time demands of all kinds. I have argued that they do a poor job for the majority …
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Others say: “Don’t worry about why this system works, just follow/use it” Time Management 2.0 says: “Find out the design principles behind all useful systems so that you can craft your own” People who come across a time management book or class are generally told to “follow the instructions,” and to adopt the new practices …
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Here is my ongoing analysis of the changes that would occur with the purchase of a smartphone. Both tables are works in progress that I intend to update through the end of the year. This table is an estimate of the impact that new smartphone features would have on my productivity, convenience and and efficiency. …
This must be the week for research and reflection, because I am once again writing about a piece of research that I have found that has some interesting findings. This article is entitled “Supporting Email Flow“and it’s authored by Gina Danielle Venolia, Laura Dabbish, JJ Cadiz and Anoop Gupta. It’s a little dated, as it …
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There are some time management issues that I have raised in my blog, and in my videos, that I believe can be answered using a digital simulation. This diagnostic tool, which is taught in schools of operations research, is one that can be used to answer some of the specific conclusions I have drawn about …
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Recently on Facebook, I had the chance to answer a question about my motivations for creating my recent video: Permanently Fixing the Weekly Review. Here was my original post: I just finished a video that focuses of fixing the problems many of us have been having with the weekly review. It calls for a major …
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I wrote an article for the StepCase LifeHack website on the topic of procrastination after getting a bit pissed that the word was getting a bad name! (If you read the article by clicking at the link below you’ll get the lame joke that I just made.) It’s a serious article, however, on a problem …
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I came across an article on the Harvard Business Review website entitled “An 18-Minute Plan for starting Your Day.” It’s an interesting take on the value of rituals, and how they build competence over time. Here on the 2Time blog, I have written a great deal about the essential nature of habits, and how they …
As I mentioned in a prior post, I was planning to review an e-book that describes the Pomodoro Technique. A deeper read confirmed that the book is an interesting and well-written one, but it suffers from the challenge that all that books on time management face — that the readers are not the writer. Before …
One of the key recommendations of Bit Literacy is that one should take todos and schedule them onto lists that belong to particular days. It argues that a single todo list quickly becomes overwhelming, and that the items should instead be allocated to lists that belong to separate days in the future. It’s not a …
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