ToDoList 4.8.b4 (Beta) - A simple but effective way to keep on t Downloads Latest Executable + Plugins (6.8.10) - 2.1 MB (Includes all associated resources)Application Source (6.8.10) - 3.1 MB (Includes all plugins - compiles under VC6-VS2008) 3rd Party Note: Please contact the respective authors directly with comments and questions iTDL - for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch Tdl Todo List - for Android Latest Update (6.8.10 Feature Release) The big new features for 6.8 are full drag'n'drop support added to the Gantt and Calendar views for modifying task dates. The Calendar was also rewritten to add support for displaying tasks continuously between their start and due dates. Introduction You know how it is - you start work on one project and halfway through, you find one or two side-projects crop up that have to be solved before you can continue on the original project. This is one such project with the added twist that it too started its life as a side-project. The next step was to hunt around on the web for a tool to meet the following requirements: Simple, huh!
15 Time Boxing Strategies to Get Things Done Putting it simply, time boxing is the most effective time management tool that I know of. Even if you already know and use it to some extent, there is a good chance that you can make it even better with some of the tips that follow. For those new to it, time boxing is simply fixing a time period to work on a task or group of tasks. Instead of working on a task until it’s done, you commit to work on it for a specific amount of time instead. But don’t let the simplicity of the concept deceive you — there’s much more to this tool than meets the eye. Many people already wrote about it (check Dave Cheong for a great start, as well as J.D Meier and Steve Pavlina). 1. The most obvious use of a time box is to make progress on big tasks. 2. Time boxes are a great way to tackle those annoying, tiny tasks that keep bugging you (pun intended). 3. If you’re procrastinating on a task, forget about completing it: just put it in a time box instead. 4. Perfectionism is the flip side of procrastination.
Benign Chaos » 2011 Daily Planner Pages January – December 2014Letter size (8.5″ x 11″) One page per day 2014 PDF files in zip format2014 OpenOffice Draw .odg files in zip formatBlue Highway font (2003 version) used in odg files These are the daily planner pages that I uploaded to the diyplanner.com site (awesome, awesome site). These are released under the Creative Commons license. Download and have fun. If you would like to join the Announcement List (I’ll email a notice to this list when there are updates), please fill out this form: The list messages will come from either dreamhost.com which is my host or from benignchaos.com.
Procrastination hack: '(10+2)*5' Following on the idea of the procrastination dash and Jeff’s progressive dash, I’ve been experimenting with a squirelly new system to pound through my procrastinated to-do list. Brace yourself, because it is a bit more byzantine than is Merlin 2005’s newly stripped-down habit. It’s called (10+2)*5, and today it will save your ass. Who it’s for procrastinatorsthe easily distractedcompulsive web-surferspeople with a long list of very short tasks (a/k/a “mosquitos”) people having trouble chipping away at very large tasks What you’ll need a timermust be easy to resetelectronic kitchen timer is particularly good (pref. with multiple alarm memories), oran app like Minuteur (get the newest version—several cool new features)a reduced subset of your to-do list tasks that can be worked on (not necessarily completed) in blocks of 10 minutes or lessGTD people: next actions only, pleasean hour of your time (less is potentially okay, but it’s non-canonical)your sorry, procrastinating ass How it works