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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: i'd like to buy some discipline please.

« Last post by nudone on September 19, 2006, 03:06 AM »

oh dear. we are doomed.

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Living Room / Re: media icons - suggestions please.

« Last post by nudone on September 19, 2006, 02:12 AM »

thanks, Edvard, some nice suggestions there.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / i'd like to buy some discipline please.

« Last post by nudone on September 19, 2006, 02:01 AM »

here's my confession:

i've read the books and i've embraced the philosophy - but i still become bored with certain tasks and so put them off to do other things.

i have doubt in my mind so i have to admit i'm not a 'true' believer (maybe i'm just lacking vigor this morning).

here's the problem as i see it (and that i keep repeating to mouser whenever i get the chance, which he already knows so it can't be of any help)...

buying a self-motivation (time management) book isn't buying discipline. that's all i need - that's all we need - discipline. well, self-discipline.

where can i buy some from. has anyone got some spare that they don't really need - name your price - if i comes with a guarantee i'll pay.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by nudone on September 19, 2006, 01:43 AM »

hehe, good to see where gridmove and dialogmove were created, jgpaiva. i like your emtpy shelves, very zen like.

so far, i have to agree that mouser's desk looks the most inviting to sit at (maybe it's just the lighting scheme in the photo). i'm wondering if being messy leads to distraction - and procrastination. hey, where did you get that cool wallpaper from - i'd sure like to have something like that 

i think i'm going to put 'create new working environment' down on my 'will-do' list. tidy desk, tidy brain, tidy life, nirvana.

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Living Room / Re: Soople - Google Searches Made Handy

« Last post by nudone on September 19, 2006, 01:26 AM »

brilliant.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)

« Last post by nudone on September 19, 2006, 01:22 AM »

thanks, brownstudy. i'll have to take a look at the Limoncelli book by the sounds of it. thanks for mentioning the new Forster blog also.

it IS encouraging to hear that you've get a system going for so long - can i ask, are you a 'disciplined' kind of person anyway? i mean, have you always been quite capable of sticking to things that need returning to time and time again?

i ask this as i think the majority of us are just starting out with these time-management methods, so you are one of the few that has been doing things for more than a couple of weeks - you are an example that proves it can be done.

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Living Room / Re: places to go, people to see

« Last post by nudone on September 19, 2006, 01:10 AM »

ha, ha, brilliant.

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Living Room / Re: media icons - suggestions please.

« Last post by nudone on September 18, 2006, 12:59 AM »

what you might call 'spoilt for choice'...

dlanham.com is incredible. i bookmarked his site a while back but then forgot about it. since i've been getting more into illustrator i certainly appreciate what he's doing there - might have to pinch some of his style.

still not sure which icons to go for though. might just use some temporarily and then make my own.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)

« Last post by nudone on September 18, 2006, 12:45 AM »

thanks, brownstudy, that was interesting to hear and also encouraging to know that you've been using these methods a while - could you please let us know just how long you have been using this mixture of techniques and whether you find it a natural thing to do now - are these just habits or do you have to force yourself to carry out the system?

i think, perhaps, my own personal problem is that i expect a single book or guru to provide all the answers even though i know this is ridiculous to expect.

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Living Room / Re: media icons - suggestions please.

« Last post by nudone on September 18, 2006, 12:29 AM »

thanks everyone, i'll check out your suggestions and report back what i do.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: What Needs to Get Done (WNTGD)

« Last post by nudone on September 18, 2006, 12:26 AM »

sounds good, brownstudy.

care to share the names of the books?

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Living Room / media icons - suggestions please.

« Last post by nudone on September 17, 2006, 01:30 PM »

i mentioned something about icons before - well, about managing icons for file types. Iphile was the answer.

now, i realise there is one further step to complete...

if, like me, you try out different media players or image managers and let these programs associate themselves with your files, you'll find that your icons keep changing to whatever the associated program wants to use.

thankfully, Iphile can keep things in order by saving categories of icons - so, you could have a standardised/default set of icons just for your media files regardless of the program that is associated with them.

my current problem is that i'd like a really nice set of icons that i can assign to my media files (audio, video, image) and then keep them that way. i could start designing my own icons to use but i don't think it's worth reinventing the wheel on this one.

there must be lots of nice looking icons out there that clearly display what file type the icon represents at the various icon sizes.

now, i'm thinking that something that was thoughtfully colour coded as well as displaying the extension letter would be good. so, as an example something like:

.psd file would be kinda blue to match the photoshop .exe feather icon
.pdf file would be kinda red to match acrobat
.ai file would be kinda orange to match illustrator icon

being more general, things like .avi, .mov, .mpg, would have a nice video type icon with the extension stamped over the top. similar sort of thing with .mp3 and .wav or .ogg or whatever. yeah, and .jpg, etc.

so here's the question: does anyone know of any nice icon sets without me having to click through a load of dodgy websites?

thanks.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)

« Last post by nudone on September 17, 2006, 01:05 PM »

at some point - if there are a sufficient number - shall we have a list of things that don't appear to fit in with these current self-motivation systems. if we can expose the areas of time management that have not been considered by DA and MF, etc. it might be useful for us to concentrate on the problems and suggest new approaches.

it may be even more valuable/fun for us to try our own newly devised techniques. i know we are meant to be developing our own systems - i just thought it might be interesting to focus on the grey areas or unanswered areas that keep being mentioned.

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Living Room / Re: Just HOW do you tie a *censor* tie?

« Last post by nudone on September 17, 2006, 11:29 AM »

i admit it takes a while to get it right - once you are happy with the result don't untie it - just loosen it enough to slip over your head, then you won't have to do it every again.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Zoom Player - the all-in-one media player!

« Last post by nudone on September 17, 2006, 05:46 AM »

well, i eat my words yet again...

GOM is currently working better with an mpeg file i recorded last night - KMPlayer will play it when it feels like it, won't fast forward properly, etc.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Zoom Player - the all-in-one media player!

« Last post by nudone on September 17, 2006, 04:15 AM »

Guys, be careful! AFAIK Gom and KM Player also install come codecs that could easily mess your system. That's why I didn't even bother to try them although I've heard they are good.

-Black Mamba (September 17, 2006, 03:55 AM)

i haven't yet found a way codecs finally messing things up one or another - just seems to be part of the nonsense of having all these varying encoders/decoders.

GOM and KMPlayer are trying to resolve the messed up codec problem but i accept that they may still mess up the rest of your system - just depends on how and what you use i guess.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Zoom Player - the all-in-one media player!

« Last post by nudone on September 17, 2006, 12:43 AM »

not sure what you've downloaded there, superboyac.

the file i've got works how you would expect - click on it and it installs - there's only one file so you must have something strange there.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)

« Last post by nudone on September 16, 2006, 03:46 PM »

this just extends from what i said above. i mention it as it seems more important than the 'leaving tasks unfinished' principle OR maybe it is the 'leaving tasks unfinished' principle.

i've had a few ideas for these wallpaper things i'm doing - just rough sketches and doodles on a scrap bit of paper - THIS makes me want to carry on with the task. i'm not going to carry on right now and i might not get chance tomorrow either but i'm certainly eager to get cracking.

so, am i just doing what Forster described or is this different. if it's different then i think it worth considering - the principle being to think of new things to incorporate into your procrastinated task. i guess it's just an obvious thing to suggest - find something or invent something novel that relates to the task, something that makes you a little excited about it.

easier said than done i suppose and it certainly will depend on what you are trying to achieve. it's something i'm going to think about anyway - see if i can conjure up a novel approach to non design related tasks that i have to do.

i'm wondering if this is simply how these self-motivation systems tend to work - they make you get on with stuff because you are approaching the task in a novel fashion that you wouldn't normally do. you are thinking about it differently to what you would normally. the problem is that the novelty wears off after you have been using the system for a while and you soon find yourself back to procrastinating - if so, then the solution lies in keeping things new - keep changing the rules of the system. is this why Forster keeps moving on to a new system? i think this might be an important and valid point.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by nudone on September 16, 2006, 12:46 PM »

f0dder, i think you are procrastinating about something if you have time to make this kind of post.

here's the list of what i'm using https://www.donation...91.msg12431#msg12431

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)

« Last post by nudone on September 16, 2006, 12:30 PM »

i did think about his 'stop as you have just begun' technique when i read it but i'm not that convinced by it. i appreciate that the idea is because he sees that the mind will want to to finish the task off so it will be easier to pick up again.

i'm sceptical on this one because pretty much everything i do gets left uncompleted - i don't really ever end up rushing back to complete these unfinished tasks - they just get done when i get around to them next time. i don't have any sense of urgency in my mind to get back to them either - rather, i'm often bored by them - that's why i move on.

as an example: all the cody wallpapers i'm doing - none are particularly finished, nor are they at an interim stage that could be called complete. am i rushing to get back to them and finish them? no, i'm not. am i walking around with them playing on my mind? not really.

perhaps i'm belittling his idea as i know that i'll complete these wallpapers very soon so the task is obviously still in 'focus' but i'm procrastinating about getting them done right now.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: Suggest Questions for our interview w/ Mark Forster (Do It Tomorrow Author)

« Last post by nudone on September 16, 2006, 09:44 AM »

i'd say that is just for 'trivial' tasks. you've got a list of things that aren't that special, you don't know where to start so you just attack them all in short bursts to get things moving.

is it realistic - in the right situation i guess it is - i can't quite see how it would be that practical to use as your main system. it's there to overcome the inertia of not being able to do anything at all so 5 minute chunks are so quick and easy they are something you wouldn't complain or object to - 5 minutes doesn't sound like a 'serious' amount of time so you wouldn't feel any fear of trying - it would sort of be fun to rush through the tasks.

you probably wouldn't get any 'proper' work done but you would get airborn - the 5 minute tasks are like bouncing across the runway - eventually you make a big enough bounce to take off completely and get into 'serious' task completion mode.

that's how i see it - correct me if i'm wrong.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on September 16, 2006, 04:35 AM »

here's just a suggestion for when you have nothing better to do one day, jgpaiva.

i really like the new move dialog so that highlighted button move to cursor type thing, but there are times when it would be nice for a different button to act as the target.

i use flashget and the 'save' dialog that opens has the save location highlighted rather than just the 'okay' or 'save' button.

my suggestion is that it would be nice/useful if the user could make 'dialogmove' learn how you want it to behave with certain windows. just like it works at the moment how you can specify whether a window should be ignored or always moved by pressing one of the hotkeys - it would be handy so that you could press a hotkey so that dialogmove knew which button it should use as the target to move the mouse cursor with specific dialog windows.

i hope that makes sense, and i hope it sounds like a worthwhile feature to add.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: pc fasting (from lifedev.net)

« Last post by nudone on September 15, 2006, 11:31 PM »

Hmm, link doesn't seem to be working at the mo. I must say in my case, internet fasting as opposed to complete pc fasting would probably up my productivity. The pc itself I think contributes more than it takes, I think.

-Eóin (September 15, 2006, 06:39 PM)

umm, just clicked on it. it was a bit slow but the page did appear ???????

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Living Room / Re: The Onion isn't the Only Funny Fake News Site

« Last post by nudone on September 15, 2006, 11:28 PM »

topical http://www.avantnews...icle.php?storyid=271

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Zoom Player - the all-in-one media player!

« Last post by nudone on September 15, 2006, 11:22 PM »

well, as mentioned earlier, javajones introduced this thread to KMPlayer and we know he doesn't just accept a piece of software without checking all its features. i was sceptical, at first, that a media player i had never heard of could be of any worth but it's the player that i keep returning to now - i've still got vlc and mpc installed but i really don't know why i just don't stick with KMPlayer.

i'm sure there is little wrong with Zoom Player. it just depends on the arbitrary nature of codecs and files that you are likely to use. i used Zoom Player for quite a while but it honestly would cough and splutter at certain things i tried to play - so i gave up with it.

i honestly don't know of all the features that Zoom Player has, nor have i really looked at everything that KMPlayer will do, but from what i've seen so far KMPlayer is more powerful. of course, it just depends on what you are trying to do as to what you define as 'powerful'.

i mainly want a player that is near 100% going to play any file i throw at it but i also need features that are useful when playing back through a CRT television set. it certainly won't be to everyones requirements but i need full mouse/button control of things like aspect ratio and large sized font navigation. KMPLayer seems best equipped for this. i was happy with Zoom Player on my TV but i had to scrap it when it started to misbehave when going in and out of full screen mode.

it would be nice to have a media player shootout as there appears to be plenty of overlap with all these super players, i'm guessing that they all have their own little niche feature set that puts them apart from each other but it's hard to know what they are without spending days figuring it all out.

i'm still getting to know KMPlayer. i haven't gone to great lengths to find what it can do because at the moment it has just worked every time - so i just get on with watching the vids.

i'll try and check it over later and if i find anything remarkable i'll report back maybe.