From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: An Org-based productivity tool Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:15:06 +0200 Message-ID: <87r2gt9c6t.fsf@mbork.pl> References: <87efcxaibq.fsf@mbork.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBbZl-0005F8-SQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 04:16:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBbZi-0006Yv-Is for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 04:16:37 -0400 Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:34132) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBbZi-0006Xa-AW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 04:16:34 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Bingo Cc: Org-Mode mailing list On 2018-10-11, at 16:03, Bingo wrote: > Le 10 octobre 2018 21:45:53 GMT+05:30, Marcin Borkowski = a =C3=A9crit : > >> >>- a warning when my efficiency is lower than a set value, and info >>about >> how much work I need to do to bump it up to that value. >> > > Nice, but it has an anti-feature. For procrastinators, warnings frequent= ly have negative effects. It can be understood in multiple ways : > > 1. "What the hell" effect : As Dr Art Marckman tells in the book "Smart C= hange" , there is a "what the hell" effect where the victim goofs off even = more to the extent of giving up a goal if he realizes that he is falling be= hind schedule, or has goofed off more than was advisable. The solution is t= o forgive oneself, and not beat oneself up. This warning looks like beating= oneself up. > > 2. Showing how much work needs to be done to catch up goes against some s= elf improvement philosophies. E.g. dividing work into subtasks helps in not= getting overwhelmed by the amount of work. Or the recommendation to plan = breaks in addition to planning to slog, otherwise the plan to slog becomes = overwhelming and procrastinators give up. > > Of course, if it works for you, go for it. Fair enough. It seems I was not clear enough. The detailed report on my work on this day is one thing I only trigger manually. The notification about me not clocking anything says just "You have had no active clock for %d minutes!". Also, I have other devices in place to keep me on track. The thing is, they are day-based, and I felt that I need a bit more granularity. Also, I understand that forgiving instead of beating oneself off is important, and I do it when needed. (I can always reduce the "amount of work to do" manually, though I don't yet have any good UI for that.) So you're right, but I think I do take into consideration. And remember that this is an early prototype, also in terms of whether it works for me or not. Best, --=20 Marcin Borkowski http://mbork.pl