Habits. Backpack. Warm yet Streamlined » Blog Archive » Getting things done with VoodooPad. The Mindmap Blog. My Circa hPDA (CircaPDA) - a photoset on Flickr. Timeboxing. Timeboxing is a simple time management technique I use often.
I first learned about it in software development terms. Let’s say you have a fixed deadline for a new product you need to release, such as an annual upgrade to software for calculating income taxes. You must have a new version ready by a certain date. So you’ll probably use timeboxing for your development cycle, meaning that you do the best job you can within the time available. What new features you can implement are totally determined by the time frame. In terms of managing your own tasks, timeboxing can be a helpful technique. First, let’s say you want to get something done, but there’s a risk it could end up taking far more time than it’s worth because it’s the kind of task where you might exhibit perfectionist tendencies.
As an example I use timeboxing when doing my Christmas shopping each year. (I know some people love holiday shopping, and taking multiple trips to browse is fine if it’s something you enjoy. 5S - Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke. The 5 'S' Process: Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, Shitsuke "5S" was invented in Japan, and stands for five (5) Japanese words that start with the letter 'S': Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shitsuke.
Table 1 shows what these individual words mean. An equivalent set of five 'S' words in English have likewise been adopted by many, to preserve the "5S" acronym in English usage. These are: Sort, Set (in place), Shine, Standardize, and Sustain. Some purists do not agree with these English words - they argue that these words have lost the essence of the original 5 Japanese words.
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I'm a journalist and a dad. I frequently need to make rapid notes and reminders of important tasks, dates, phone numbers, or URLs. I often get inspiration for new articles when I'm away from my computer, so I need to record those ideas, too. I need something very simple, with extremely long battery life, resistant to damage by excitable two-year-olds, and easy to synchronize with the rest of my workflow. I spent quite a while considering what hardware I could use to fulfill all these requirements. Here's my amazing new PDA: A design classic: the Hipster PDA It does everything I need. This wasn't my idea. This article is for the people who haven't heard that hype yet. Getting Started. Line of Sight - Projects. Engineer2Entrepreneur: Getting Things Done FlowChart.
Consistency. “Consistency, thou art a jewel.”
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What is Sciral Consistency? Calendars are great for keeping track of tasks where you need to coordinate with others by setting fixed times and intervals. To-do lists are great for keeping track of tasks that you will do once, and that you need to keep in order by priority. But there's another class of activities for which neither traditional calendars nor to-do lists are optimal. The kinds of activities or tasks you use Sciral Consistency for share a number of attributes: What are some examples of appropriate tasks? Time Management Talk. Project Info - GTD App.