{"id":37,"date":"2005-12-09T09:58:49","date_gmt":"2005-12-09T08:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2014-03-10T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T10:05:19","slug":"combining-the-task-destruct-o-matic-and-1025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/combining-the-task-destruct-o-matic-and-1025\/","title":{"rendered":"Combining The Task Destruct-o-matic and (10+2)*5"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you already use (10+2)*5<\/a> , the Task Destruct-o-matic<\/a> offers an easy way to visualize your productive working time. If you do not use it, you might want to give it a try.<\/p>\n

Dave Seah<\/a> published a form called The Task Destruct-o-matic<\/a> that visualizes the time you spent on an certain task \u2013 not as a low-level time tracking form but to visually give you feedback: you are productive, you actually did something \u2013 even if you haven\u2019t finished the task yet.<\/p>\n

For each task there is a sequence of bubbles, each representing an arbitrary time unit. You basically fill in a bubble whenever you make significant progress during that arbitrary time unit.<\/p>\n

This is where the (10+2)*5<\/a> system comes into play. (10+2)*5 is the idea that in order to avoid too much procrastination you force yourself to work on a task for 10 minutes and are allowed to procrastinate for 2 minutes. When you did this 5 times in a row, an hour of productive work has passed. There is a Konfabulator<\/a> widget that countdowns 10 minutes and then 2 minutes \u2013 it\u2019s easy to implement that system. (Update:<\/strong> Konfabulator \/ Yahoo widgets was terminated on April 2012.)<\/p>\n

Now if you use 10 minutes as the \u201carbitrary time unit\u201d in Task Destruct-o-matic, then you can work with the (10+2)*5 system and easily visualize your productive working time.<\/p>\n

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If you already use (10+2)*5<\/a> , the Task Destruct-o-matic<\/a> offers an easy way to visualize your productive working time. If you do not using it, you might want to give it a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20],"series":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-selbst-management","tag-personliche-entwicklung","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epischel.de\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}