Smarterware Essay: Simple Guidelines for Workday Quality Over Quantity

[mouser]

This is an interesting short blog piece from Gina Trapani's new webiste (she was formerly part of LifeHacker), relevant to our Getting Organized Experiment discussions.  It emphasizes avoiding distractions.

http://smarterware.org/669/simple-guidelines-for-workday-quality-over-quantity

[bgd77]

Very nice mouser, thank you very much, I really needed this.

These are simple ideas that have a great impact on productivity.

[mouser]

i'd be very interested to hear from people who went from obsessive email checking to this kind of once every 3 hours approach, since i am very tempted to try to adopt such a plan, but im just not sure i could.

[bgd77]

I just started to do it. If I will succeed I will let you know. For me it is a little hard to ignore emails because they may be related to work and be very important (and could require immediate attention).

Anyhow, I would be also interested to hear from others if they were able to implement these ideas or if they have other rules they impose in order to increase their productivity.

[justice]

Also worth to try and limit meetings to a certain time of day. you'll know what time of day you are most productive, so don't schedule meetings there if possible. (for me between 11-12 and after 3pm are good times for meetings).

[GSz]

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: scribd.com

and a DOC (editable) verion is avilable at: gazup.com

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

[cranioscopical]

for me between 11-12 and after 3pm are good times for meetings

Wouldn't want to interfere with lunch! 

[Lashiec]

i'd be very interested to hear from people who went from obsessive email checking to this kind of once every 3 hours approach, since i am very tempted to try to adopt such a plan, but im just not sure i could.

If you receive many e-mails through the day, perhaps it would better for you to install an e-mail notifier (unless you're receiving a new e-mail every minute).