Comments on: Simple Guidelines for Workday Quality Over Quantity http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity A blog about software Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elanor Matheson http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-310 Elanor Matheson Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:06:24 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-310 "http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity" Why don't you just close Gmail until you're ready to check it. Half the problem is leaving your email client open all the time. “http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity”

Why don’t you just close Gmail until you’re ready to check it. Half the problem is leaving your email client open all the time.

]]> By: openid.aol.com/jjrjr4 http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-309 openid.aol.com/jjrjr4 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:42:43 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-309 Hi Gina, Love the concept here...I would love to apply this to gmail but they won't let me set the interval to check for new mail. Any way Better Gmail can do that? Hi Gina,
Love the concept here…I would love to apply this to gmail but they won’t let me set the interval to check for new mail. Any way Better Gmail can do that?

]]> By: Elanor Matheson http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-308 Elanor Matheson Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:42:15 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-308 I wanted a way to put this on my office wall, so I made a poster! http://www.zazzle.com/quality_vs_quantity_workflow_poster-228303635266503597 Please let me know what you think! I wanted a way to put this on my office wall, so I made a poster!

http://www.zazzle.com/quality_vs_quantity_workflow_poster-228303635266503597

Please let me know what you think!

]]> By: Thibault http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-247 Thibault Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:50:45 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-247 really interesting Gina By curiosity because you set an "OUT" time with no excuse what is the IN time in the morning ? This is to have an idea because being more of an "evening" person I would quit later but start later accordingly Also it is interesting to have an idea of how long should a regular work day for you since you seem to have also an interesting idea about when in the evening you should go out for work because the idea that you should be out at a certain time seems to be the outcome of an implicit broader view of working time ratio versus life time. This is undoubtedly an interesting implicit life hack that I'm looking forward to see explicitly shared. That fact is I'm on the dole at the moment and setting a regular rythm is not obvious that's another motivation for my question. best regards anyway really interesting Gina
By curiosity because you set an “OUT” time with no excuse what is the IN time in the morning ?

This is to have an idea because being more of an “evening” person I would quit later but start later accordingly

Also it is interesting to have an idea of how long should a regular work day for you since you seem to have also an interesting idea about when in the evening you should go out for work

because the idea that you should be out at a certain time seems to be the outcome of an implicit broader view of working time ratio versus life time.

This is undoubtedly an interesting implicit life hack that I’m looking forward to see explicitly shared.

That fact is I’m on the dole at the moment and setting a regular rythm is not obvious that’s another motivation for my question.

best regards anyway

]]> By: kristowson http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-224 kristowson Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:33:27 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-224 @ Bill Adams Thanks for the reply - I am going to give it a shot and see how it goes. The simplicity of Autofocus is what attracted me to it in the first place. There is something very attractive about a system that requires a pen, some paper, and nothing else other than your attention! @ Bill Adams

Thanks for the reply – I am going to give it a shot and see how it goes. The simplicity of Autofocus is what attracted me to it in the first place. There is something very attractive about a system that requires a pen, some paper, and nothing else other than your attention!

]]> By: FrightenedByPenguins http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-223 FrightenedByPenguins Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:20:18 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-223 I'm planning on doing something almost exactly like this at work with a possible amendment to Minamise 'Reading Blogs and Feeds'. I just need to spend a couple of weeks perfecting my handwriting before spending 4 hours of my day painstakingly drawing it up onto the whiteboard. Or.... suppose I could type it out...i'll add this to my todo list. I’m planning on doing something almost exactly like this at work with a possible amendment to Minamise ‘Reading Blogs and Feeds’. I just need to spend a couple of weeks perfecting my handwriting before spending 4 hours of my day painstakingly drawing it up onto the whiteboard.

Or…. suppose I could type it out…i’ll add this to my todo list.

]]> By: Gal Szkolnik http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-220 Gal Szkolnik Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:40:34 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-220 I liked this so much I descieded I wanted this list posted near my PC screen. (That's how distracted I get :-) ), since I didn't like the print quality of the picture, I created a Word DOC and I'm sharing it with you guys here. A PDF is avilable at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/12901612/Simple-Guidelines-for-Workday-Quality-Over-Quantity and a DOC (editable) verion is avilable at: http://www.gazup.com/1r5w7-quality_vs_quantity.doc-download-mirrors Hope I havn't broken any copyrights, enjoy all. I liked this so much I descieded I wanted this list posted near my PC screen.
(That’s how distracted I get :-) ), since I didn’t like the print quality of the picture, I created a Word DOC and I’m sharing it with you guys here.

A PDF is avilable at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/12901612/Simple-Guidelines-for-Workday-Quality-Over-Quantity

and a DOC (editable) verion is avilable at: http://www.gazup.com/1r5w7-quality_vs_quantity.doc-download-mirrors

Hope I havn’t broken any copyrights, enjoy all.

]]> By: sbtablet http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-215 sbtablet Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:53:29 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-215 This is difficult in a situation where my clients, my boss, my co-workers walk in to my office six or seven times a day. I have to drop everything and attend to them. Still, kicking the habit of reading every email as it comes in would help me a lot. So why the unread mail favicon for Better Gmail 2 if I'm not supposed to run and check it quick?:-) This is difficult in a situation where my clients, my boss, my co-workers walk in to my office six or seven times a day. I have to drop everything and attend to them. Still, kicking the habit of reading every email as it comes in would help me a lot.

So why the unread mail favicon for Better Gmail 2 if I’m not supposed to run and check it quick?:-)

]]> By: Bill Adams http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-212 Bill Adams Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:37:37 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-212 kristowson -- I've been using AutoFocus for a few weeks, and it's not as inconsistent with the post we're commenting as you may suppose. Many days I only get three things done. True, there is a tendency to knock off a number of smaller tasks too, but the structure of the system forces you back to the important big stuff soon enough. If it intrigues you, try it. There's no overhead or prep time, you can start in ten minutes; nothing ventured, nothing gained. Cheers! kristowson –

I’ve been using AutoFocus for a few weeks, and it’s not as inconsistent with the post we’re commenting as you may suppose. Many days I only get three things done. True, there is a tendency to knock off a number of smaller tasks too, but the structure of the system forces you back to the important big stuff soon enough.

If it intrigues you, try it. There’s no overhead or prep time, you can start in ten minutes; nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Cheers!

]]> By: kristowson http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity#comment-209 kristowson Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:40:27 +0000 http://smarterware.org/?p=669#comment-209 I am with Amrit! When I was grad student, I always had clearly defined goals: write chapter X of thesis, go to archive Y for research, etc. As a lecturer, this continued as I always had a particular lecture to write or a certain pile of essays to mark. But now that I have left academia and am trying to make a go of it on my own, I have discovered just how much STUFF there is to do. This is an interesting approach and I will give it a go for a while and see what happens. Out of curiosity, have any of you tried the Autofocus ( http://bit.ly/fJSz )system? It too seems like an extremely simple (ie. I might actually USE it!) system, but it is very different from this one. Any thoughts? I am with Amrit! When I was grad student, I always had clearly defined goals: write chapter X of thesis, go to archive Y for research, etc. As a lecturer, this continued as I always had a particular lecture to write or a certain pile of essays to mark. But now that I have left academia and am trying to make a go of it on my own, I have discovered just how much STUFF there is to do.

This is an interesting approach and I will give it a go for a while and see what happens.

Out of curiosity, have any of you tried the Autofocus ( http://bit.ly/fJSz )system? It too seems like an extremely simple (ie. I might actually USE it!) system, but it is very different from this one. Any thoughts?

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