Re: An Org-based productivity tool

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

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Hi,

One suggestion would be to distinguish between different types of work.
For example, you may value more an important project you need to work
on, but do not like, in comparison with another project you really like
doing.
This can be done, for example, by weighting the time spent on
different tasks according to the task urgency/arbitrary multiplier.

A comment on the example output.
Some people (like me) can spend too much time just staring at the kind
of output you provided.
I found it more efficient to have a single number/phrase indication if I
need to work harder or not.
The full output might still be shown to adjust the overall productivity,
but, say, once per day/week.

Best,
Ihor

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi Orgers,
>
> I am making an Org-mode-based tool to help boost my productivity.
>
> I am constantly fighting a losing battle with distractions.  I figured
> out that showing me how much time I spent goofing around would help me
> stay on track (being a math geek and a gamer, my "let's break my
> yesterday's score" and similar instincts kick in immediately, too).  So
> far, I have these in my prototype:
>
> - a notification (recurring every n seconds) that I'm not clocking
>   anything,
>
> - some stats about what I spent my time on and what my efficiency (i.e.,
>   percentage of time I spent working from the point when I started
>   counting to now) is,
>
> - info about how much work I need to do in order to meet my set goal,
>   and how much will it take if my efficiency remains constant,
>
> - 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.
>
> Here's an example output (with some partially faked data):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 39min of your workday (10%) has passed, and you have 5h 31min left.
>
> work - 30min spent (12% of your goal of 4h and 75% of your workday so far)
>        3h 30min remaining (4h 39min with your current efficiency of 75%).
>        You need 9min of uninterrupted work to get back to 80% efficiency.
>
> eating - 4min spent (10% of your workday so far)
>
> bathroom - 2min spent (5% of your workday so far)
>
> unclassified - 0min spent (0% of your workday so far)
>
> Unclocked time so far: 3min.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> My questions are:
>
> - is anyone interested in something like this?
>
> - are there any features you would like to have?  (I have some ideas,
>   too.)
>
> - does anyone have an idea of how to /name/ this project?
>
> TIA,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://mbork.pl
>

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Ihor Radchenko,
PhD Student
Singapore University of Technology and Design,
8 Somapah Road Singapore 487372
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@mymail.sutd.edu.sg
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