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A kanban board will help you prioritize into things you could do, should do, must do and have done. There are a lot of ways to organise it; I started with a To Do, Doing and Done column structure and limited myself to 2 items in the Doing. I used something different now but it's a good start to get that focus. Don't overdesign it, just throw some tasks you feel overwhelmed with and drag the two most important ones in the doing column. Do them. Move them once done and pick some others.
Trello is a popular one, KanBan Flow was another recommended to me recently (free).
It is very worth spending time to think about what is coming past your current list of "do now" tasks. The more you plan, the more time you spend focused on relevant tasks and the less interruptions you will have.
Jira with Agile plugin. Is one that I've been exposed to for past 6 years with various organizations. Works good, but haven't had a chance to play with others for comparison.
There's also KanbanFlow that can be adjusted for "agile" but can't speak for it in a team/professional environment.
I have a couple things that might help.
Any developer worth their salt uses a flow chart to track projects and progress. Here’s the best one and it’s free:
Next, START SMALL!!! Only build a small part (one town, one quest, one dungeon) all the way to completion before you do anything else.
Find friends to play test your work. Nothing worse than building hours of gameplay to only find out your game is no fun.
KanbanFlow allowed me to sort out everything. Comes with a built in pomodoro which I use all the time. I have three different colors, for short, medium and long tasks. I count them as values of 1, 2 and 3 and try to plan out 8-10 'value' each day so I don't get overwhelmed but also use my time properly. Here's an example layout for the board: (All my columns are empty as it's the end of the week and I need to plan the next one!). Hope this inspires!
Well, you need to find out why you're putting your books down. Is it because you simply don't want to do it, like you're feeling burnt out? Or are you getting distracted by more tempting things like your cellphone, computer, other people/things?
If you find yourself getting distracted, what you need to do is to get rid of those distractions before you start studying. Turn off the computer, silence your cell phone and maybe put them in an opposite room of where you're working so you won't be able to access them easily. If you're distracted by other people, then make an effort to study somewhere people won't bother you. Also keep your studying area tidy, it can make studying a lot more appealing if all your stationary and notes are in order.
If you're simply feeling burnt out from studying, then maybe try setting a timer for yourself. Make it a goal to study for only X amount of minutes. It could be for twenty minutes. Make it your goal to study for the entire twenty minutes and then you can be free. If you feel the need to stop during that allotted time, then just keep telling yourself only X more minutes until you can do whatever you want to do. Studying in shorter increments gives you more willpower to deny distractions. Say you're five minutes into your study session and you want to put the book down. What is easier to tell yourself, "Wait only 15 more minutes" or "Wait 55 more minutes?" Work through those 20 minutes, and then take a break for however long you need to. Then repeat, work through the next 20 minutes and take a break. Basically, it's the pomodoro technique.
A website I use to track my pomodoro's and to do list is Kanban Flow. Hopefully this helps :)
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Get a task manager for yourself (i use https://kanbanflow.com). Break down each task with steps to keep you from rushing. Only have 3 (or less) tasks you're working on 'At a time' everything else waits until one of those 3 are done.
EX:
StupidApp1 shows XYZ error when doing ABC
- check firewall
- Check application permissions
- check application settings
- check if problem between keyboard and chair
Delete bob's account
- Copy PST and my docs for supervisor
- delete ad account
- convert account to shared and set autoreply
- etc
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Limiting your scope to 3 tasks at a time keeps you a bit more focused while still allowing you to do something else while waiting for stuff to happen. Giving yourself a detailed list of steps, helps you remember in 3 hours (or 3 weeks) what you wanted to do, gives you a checklist to say 'ive done this' so you dont repeat yourself tomorrow morning -- and helps you stay calm and focused on the things you need to do.
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Might also want to think about a self-documentation system, so you have the docs you need pulled out of the corporate mess.
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I've found that a Kanban board is a great tool for managing a bunch of work and keeping me focused without adding a lot of extra work. The goal is that you have a prioritized list of to-dos, and you only work on one at a time until it is done. I use a free one https://kanbanflow.com. Even when you have to switch tasks - e.g. to answer questions from one of your remote workers - it's a great reminder of what was I supposed to be doing.
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I agree, there is this nifty software I need to use more often, its called Kaban Flow. It times your 'work' period and gives you 30 min of 'work time' then it beeps, and makes you take a 5 min break before returning to work.
I started tracking all of the supplements that I thought might help using kanbanflow.com so I could have an updated list of what I had tried and decided to keep or tried and rejected. I felt like I would have this illness for a long time so I would probably get around to trying pretty much everything.
When it came to prioritizing which ones to try I went for the "no-regrets" supplements first - those that were cheapest, lowest-risk, and that were commonly used even for healthier people. After that I experimented with the supplements that seemed most commonly recommended and had the most evidence base(somewhere there is a video of Dr. Klimas talking about what she recommends). The supplements that had the most risk, the highest cost, or least amount of recommendations were the ones I saved for last.
In March I was able to see an actual ME/CFS specialist so I have been following her recommendations since then. It's still a lot of trial and error as some things make me feel awful. She did recommend supplements that are more typically used for Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, which have been helpful and which were not on my original list!
KanbanFlow is a lot like Trello, but I find it has a few more features and customization points.
It sounds like you are describing “swim lanes”: https://kanbanflow.com/features
Note that swimlanes are a premium feature. There is a free trial so you can see if the system works for you, and if it will be worth paying for.
oh yea lists are essentials, while you work on something your brain comes up with many other possible features and things to do and its hard for us to keep track and continue what we are initially doing so writting it down really helps me.
I'm personally a fan of the pomodoro technique. To start off, tweak it to whatever suits you. I personally find that after about 8 pomodori of solid work my productivity decreases so I don't feel bad about resting for the day. On days when I'm feeling lazy, I tell myself I just have to get one in and I usually end up doing a few more. At the very least, it'll make you more aware of your productivity. This tool/timer may be helpful.
You certainly have a way with words :)
It sounds like you may have some issues with focus. Do you keep a list of tasks in progress? Using something like Kanban Flow to organize your tasks might help you stay focused and have a visual representation of the things currently on your plate. I use a physical kanban board made of a manila folder and sticky notes. I created 3 columns in the folder (i.e. pending, doing, done) where I put sticky notes of the work tasks I'm responsible for. Here's a short clip from Silicon Valley where the characters use a similar system.
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The Pomodoro technique is a tremendous help for me. I use kanbanflow. It helps you visualize your tasks and the time spent on each one.
I use https://kanbanflow.com/. I can have a list of things I want to get done in a day, and when I finish one task I can switch to the next one in the middle of a pomodoro. (The pom timer is at the bottom of the page)
If I'm on a roll and the timer ends, then yes I extend my pom longer because I don't want interrupt that. A lot of the time I don't need to, and can pick up just were I left off after my five minute break.
I use Kanbanflow.com to manage medical stuff and other things in my life. The base level is free and the columns are customizable. That being said, I still slack on medical stuff and miss deadlines so I am not sure if it's really the answer.
Not sure if you are into kanban boards but KanbanFlow has a pomodoro timer built in. It's completely free unless you want everything but the free version has a ton.
There is a thread on Phoenix Rising that tries to do this. Cort Johnson collected remission stories on his blog for years:https://www.healthrising.org/blog/category/treatment/recovery-stories-treatment/
When I first got sick I read remissions stories obsessively and I used Kanbanflow.com to record treatments I wanted to try with notes and links. I think it's hard to compile a master list because so much varies with everyone.
I use Kanbanflow. The reason I use it instead of the more well-known Trello is that you can color the cards in Kanbanflow. You can add colored labels in Trello, but I find having the entire card colored is much more meaningful to me.
I recommend watching this video on Kanbanflow by Dan Richards. He presents a wide variety of examples ("use-cases") which illustrate creative ways to use Kanbanflow. Maybe one of these will appeal to you.
Could you try something like a pomodoro timer? It won't ease the uncertainty of anything but maybe seeing the timer and knowing that you'll have a break in x minutes would help you to focus on a task a little better? I like the Tomato timer.
I'm my regular work life I use Kaban Flow, which I think also has a pomodoro timer feature on it. I like keeping a list of what needs done and being able to see how much I've completed. I just went back to using it this week after a handful of panicky moments thinking I had forgotten to do something that had a deadline attached. (I hadn't, its just that the days of the week start to run together.) Sometimes when I'm having trouble focusing and getting into the groove with a project I'll check Kaban to see if I have any small tasks that can be quickly knocked out.
Trello never worked for me because I was resistant to using it because of the UI design. I really started to embrace kanban when I was using kanbanflow and later kanbantool a few years ago.
I approached this by thinking about upside risk (the best that could happen) and downside risk (the worst that could happen) for each treatment I was aware of. Then I prioritized all of the small bets - or the ones with low downside risk but consistent upside risk, even if it was small. (This is all from Nassim Nicholas Taleb's work on understanding risk if you want to go deeper).
I used published research when available and anecdotes from internet forums when nothing else was available to assess the risks. Vitamin D is a good example of a small bet - there aren't a lot of documented risks, it's pretty cheap, and there are lots of anecdotes attesting to it being useful but not really transformative.
I also took one "large bet" where the upside risk was big but the costs were pretty high. My large bet was mold avoidance because I had reasons to suspect mold was my trigger. It was also something where the risks were relatively easy to understand at the outset - it's obviously expensive and disrupts your whole life, but it doesn't have the unknown risks of taking experimental medicine.
Throughout all of this I prioritized pacing because pretty much everyone agrees it helps and it had the best potential to stop the progression of the illness. I tried to apply pacing to my experiments with treatments too. I figured that I would have time to try everything since a cure doesn't seem to be imminent, so I just tracked everything I wanted to try and tried each thing when I felt ready to (I was sensitive to medicine even before I got sick, so trying random treatments was maybe more of a challenge for me than average).
I use kanbanflow.com to track all of the treatments I am interested in trying, currently trying, and continuing or rejecting. Having a list that I could just check on occasionally helped me feel like I would get to everything but I didn't have to rush to any of it.
Kanbanflow.com helped me a lot with both task/idea organization & time management.
Another productivity tool is to generate a daily "priority list" that you update every night or so, this can be changed to a weekly if daily is too much.
I love https://kanbanflow.com/ It lets you set up tasks easily. I've got 4 categories, to-do, this week, now, and done. It's good as it means if anyone asks I have a list of things I have done/doing without feeling like I am making it up.
1) Try https://kanbanflow.com/ it's free an d has everything you need for kanban.
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2) For fat loss i would recommend to simply use google sheets, enter your weight for example each sunday in a sheet, compare with planning weight and build graphics.
3) I would recommend mindmaps for sortinng\structuring any info.
There are lots of programms for mindmaps, i prefere mind manager
https://kanbanflow.com Its free. My company has a Helpdesk ticket system that the other Helpdesk guy uses. It is not great. My boss lets me run out of this instead and it just works better for me. Has lots of ability to make notes in and can have multiple users per board so you could add your boss into it and they could update projects or add new ones if that helps.
Just my 2 cents :)
They have a free version which is more than enough. I use it for projects as well as personal day to day stuff. It's similar to boards like Trello, but its more cleaned up/organized and the ability to color code items might seem silly but it helps me visualize tasks and their priorities. I like it because it's web based, so I can access it from anywhere and updates in real time.
I have, but I didn't need all the group features, and I preferred KanbanFlow anyway. KanbanFlow worked pretty well for me for a while, but the iOS client isn't great, and the method I developed to simulate future tasks didn't scale very well, and I eventually got overwhelmed.
A big problem for us is that I am the main "planner," and so we're not always on the same page of what to do and who should do what. Someone on another subreddit put a link to this organizational site https://kanbanflow.com which I started using for my life, but it's also really useful for wedding planning. More than one person can be on the board, you can assign tasks, and each person can add or complete them. So it might be useful for you to communicate to each other what needs to be done and who should do it.
I use https://kanbanflow.com/ It works really nicely for me, you just add all your tasks into a todo list, then drag them from your list into a list for "Today" and "Now".
It's so simple that it doesn't get in the way. Plus it's satisfying to see things slowly move into the "Finished" list.
KanBanFlow is cool. You're young, you can figure it out. Pomodoro timer is a great feature, and is also a good method. It's a timer that breaks your tasks down into self-set intervals with breaks/rewards.
This may help your study habits. Check this website out called Kanbanflow, where you create tasks to-do, and it keeps track how much time you spend doing each one. It also helps you keep track of your break time (25 minutes studying, 5 minute breaks), and otherwise helps you be accountable to how long you spend on your specific tasks.
Check out Kanban Flow. If you like seeing tasks move from To Do -> Today -> In Progress -> Done then it's awesome. Built in Pomodoro Timer too. I use the free version, not sure what you get with premium.
I'm using Trello to run my personal and university life, as well as other projects, through the use of multiple boards. I initially used KanbanFlow but switched over once I discovered Trello (the latter is cleaner with a better UI and has an iOS app, meaning I can build up my lists while I'm on the go without my laptop).
I'd love it if I could build a cheap, large-screen (15"+), touch-screen "Trello Board", perhaps powered by a Raspberry Pi or similar...
For me, it depends on the day. On days when I have to work, I obviously have a higher standard than on my days off. But I feel like I need more down time than the typical person, so I try not to plan anything after work hours and keep socializing/chores/errands to days off as much as possible.
I understand your feelings. When I was in school, I felt the same. Worse, I would spend hours procrastinating by "working" off topic and distracting myself. When you do that, you feel like you never have down time, which isn't good either.
Make a goal for yourself - you're going to finish that personal statement - and do your best to meet that goal. When you're done with your goals for the day (hour, week, or whatever), reward yourself with a break. I got into using the Pomodoro Technique personally - it might be worth looking into
I especially enjoyed this website for productivity. It might be worth a try :)
For calendar specific things, Google Calendar. For more on-the-fly, todo-list stuff, I use KanbanFlow (Personal Kanban was something I used organize my work stuff while on coop; I've extended the concept to school work).
The only system I have ever used with a pomodoro timer is Kanbanflow , they have a mobile version of their site -
https://kanbanflow.com/features
Other than that, I have just used the Timely's timer feature and an analog list of tasks or a list from Remember the Milk.
I use a combination of two websites, kanbanflow and HabitRPG. I used to have a problem with procrastination as well, but these tools seemed to have stopped it for good. I use the pomodoro technique timer on KanbanFlow to time work and break periods, and HabitRPG to list to-dos and motivate me.