Option Generator

When you want to buy something and you aren't sure what you want to pick, you try and check out the options before you make up your mind. You tell the shopkeeper, show some t-shirts in red or blue.

When you want to start your day, what do you pick? What all do you pick? From what all options do you pick whatever you pick? How much time does it take for you to figure what all options are available?

Yesterday offers you great options for today. When you put pen to paper, it is rather quick. And very very relevant. Try and you'll discover.

Yesteroo

Hop back to hop hop hop ahead!
I write what I did yesterday
To see what I'll do today.

Cost of Clarity

To see what I'll do in the coming day,
First I write what I did and didn't do in the day gone by.

(Fresh notes, all by memory,
Not by flipping back the pages of my diary.
Morning or evening, once every day.
Morning, mostly.)

QTDTW

Q = questions
T = thoughts
D = decisions
T = talk
W = walk

Mission begins in the earnest

Finally a method, a rule, a habit, a technique that ticks a lot of boxes for me.

I call it YT.

YT for clarity.

These two lines sum up the method or technique:

When you write what you did or didn't do yesterday
You can see clearly what you'll do today!

Of course, clarity is scary. And liberating too at the same time. Try with caution and thrill.

BADASS

The last 3 letters are very famous. Individually they mean:

A = Asynchronous work (you and others work together but in your own space-times)
S = Synchronous work (you and others work together in the same space-time)
S = Solo work (you toil alone)

It's BAD coz it'll remind you of a lot of tasks every time you think in terms of ASS. Actually, every task just needs a BADASS. Think about it. Try and apply it. You'll see what I mean.

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Productivity is memorio-habitual in nature

A friend just shared this little article on productivity apps. The article raises questions on the claims of such apps.

The forms of internet-enabled communication have changed every sphere of life. Apps that offer good communication structures certainly help. But again different structures suit different kinds of people. And now there's also an issue of how many communication structures do people adopt to really stay productive, even if we debate the meaning of 'productivity'?

My observation is that folks that can work well with their memories (not the app ones or computer ones. One has to remember at least the name of the app or the location of the folder on the computer screen or hard disk to use the app or the folder) are productive. Mind you, I am not saying 'folks that memorize well'. I am saying folks that can work well with their memories. The way memories work, quite a bit of it is still a mystery. But the triggers you can offer your memory to respond to make the memories work anyway.

On the mobiles or computers, all apps, apart from communicational functions, trigger memories in certain ways. Cockpit Planner also offers triggers that helps one work well with one's memories.

Try the apps. Try the Cockpit Planner. See the difference.

I don't use productivity apps anymore.