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Posted by Dr Andus
Sep 29, 2011 at 03:31 PM
Ken wrote:
>Why CRIMP? Because I can only handle so much of The Pomodoro Technique -
>http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/ before I feel like a slave to my work at hand. A
>guy has to dream once in a while that he is in charge of his work load, and not vice-versa.
I have also experimented with the Pomodoro technique but it didn’t work for me. I couldn’t just stop writing after 25 min, if I was mid-flow. I also kept forgetting to time my breaks, ending up with longer breaks than 5 min. Instead, I invented the Reverse Pomodoro Technique ??? (patent pending). It consists of a cheap stopwatch, a Google Doc spreadsheet, and me simply timing, recording and adding up my productive work time periods per day.
I find this more helpful because it actually allowed me to discover the length of my own natural Pomodoro (which is about 30 min, but sometimes 40 min and occasionally even 60min). This way I can know whether I have worked a good day, as I can compare my daily productive work time with the previous ones or the average. As for breaks, I can take them whenever and as long as I wish. What matters is that I reach my productive daily quota.
I actually tried to use various software and platforms to track my work time but they all involved too many steps, and I ended up forgetting to turn them on or off. Having a real stopwatch in front of me is easy, as it is to update the Google spreadsheet. Should you need a specialist stopwatch, please contact me. I will be launching a Reverse Pomodoro ??? branded range soon…
Posted by Paulo Diniz
Sep 29, 2011 at 04:28 PM
Respectfully, my opinion on the “lack of market” point was already on my first post.
It’s nice to know, though, that you consider the “real money” factor and that you keep your feet and head firmly attached tp the real ground.
Would you’ve bet on Twitter?
Pauilo
>Cassius replies:
>
>I
>respectively disagree. I don’t know what you consider a ‘large” amount of data, but a
>really large amount of data requires really large storage and processing
>capacity—really FAST processing capacity. We’re talking REAL MONEY. Same goes for
>software.
>
>Good video games cost REAL MONEY to produce. About 2-3 years ago my son was
>in charge of a $35 Million video game development project. No one would put that much
>money into a project unless they thought that they would sell many millions of
>copies.
>
>I don’t think any developer thinks that the market for
>“Personal/Individual” software for processing large amounts of data has a
>potential market large enough to cover the development cost. (The individuals
>probably couldn’t afford either the needed hardware or the software.)
>
>
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 29, 2011 at 09:21 PM
Daly, thanks for the great points and the excellent blog post.
I’m going through a period of very intensive work and find that this forum is my favourite time-out. I don’t watch television, I read the news once a week, I still haven’t become a Google+ regular, I haven’t checked most of my RSS feeds for more than a year, but rarely a day will pass that I don’t check the posts here. Don’t ask me why, I’m sure there’s a deep or shallow explanation somewhere but I haven’t thought about it.
All this to say that I’d be interested in more links to other posts from people frequenting this forum, whenever you feel there’s something worth reading, even at the fringe of what we are discussing here.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Sep 29, 2011 at 09:31 PM
Dr Andus, I concur about the length of the Pomodoro being rather subjective, and indeed mine too is probably longer than 25’. At the same time I find that the Pomodoro is an acceptable minimum and that there’s a significant amount of potential diversions that can occur within that period—especially given my proneness to mind wondering. Using my timer (GTD Timer) has helped me restrain my tendency to respond to external stimuli when working.
Recording time is indeed eye-opening; in the past I’ve used a convenient free/donationware application, MapleXp http://www.maplexp.com/
I’d be happy to try your reverse Pomodoro software whenever you make it :-)
Posted by Dr Andus
Jul 27, 2013 at 09:50 PM
Once on this forum I lamented the lack of some kind of an organised marketplace where users could evaluate and rank various outliner and productivity software.
Well, it seems that http://alternativeto.net/ is emerging as something like that. It looks great for a bit of CRIMPing.
See e.g. http://alternativeto.net/tag/note-taking/
Except that I find myself completely disagreeing with the rankings. All my most favourite software languish at the bottom of their respective categories.
What could that mean?
a) I only like unpopular software ( perhaps because I’m insufficiently informed about what’s best for me or what the best software in their categories out there are)?
b) People who know about software are too busy being productive with their tools and don’t have time to register with “Alternative To”, which leaves the ranking process in the hands of poorly informed users?
c) People who make the best PIM, outliner, note-taking etc. software are one-man bands who don’t have the time to be promoting their software and may not have the right marketing expertise either?
d) The best software in any category tends to be specialist, niche software, and therefore unlikely to attract huge number of users (especially of the kind that bother to register with “Alternative To”)?