Productivity tools get a mention on the BBC
Started by Andy Brice
on 10/21/2015
Andy Brice
10/21/2015 8:06 am
Paulo Diniz
10/29/2015 1:26 am
Yes lets all go back to pen and paper
yosemite
10/29/2015 3:22 am
A lot of people use paper and pen for tasks, notes, even outlining!
On-line forums self-select for the electronically inclined and CRIMPers like us.
A simple paper list is what I recommend to people who ask me, if they say they've tried a bunch of todo apps...
With a simple paper list comes focus.
"whatever works"
On-line forums self-select for the electronically inclined and CRIMPers like us.
A simple paper list is what I recommend to people who ask me, if they say they've tried a bunch of todo apps...
With a simple paper list comes focus.
"whatever works"
Andy Brice
10/29/2015 7:54 am
I prefer pen and paper for some things.
"Horses for courses"
"Horses for courses"
Hugh
10/29/2015 10:28 am
yosemite wrote:
A lot of people use paper and pen for tasks, notes, even outlining!
On-line forums self-select for the electronically inclined and CRIMPers
like us.
A simple paper list is what I recommend to people who ask me, if they
say they've tried a bunch of todo apps...
With a simple paper list comes focus.
"whatever works"
Indeed. As I've mentioned here before, recent academic research (reported, as far as I can remember, in the New York Times and elsewhere) suggests that handwriting engages "deeper" and more complex areas of the brain than typing. (That's not to say that, for me, outliners and list-making applications aren't often very useful. They are. But even when using those, I frequently write out my rough thoughts on paper first.)
Gary Carson
10/29/2015 3:12 pm
"They all follow the same pattern - enthusiastic use and exploration followed by a moment of frustration, and then they fall off."
Isn't this a textbook definition of CRIMPing?
Isn't this a textbook definition of CRIMPing?
Dr Andus
10/29/2015 4:14 pm
Gary Carson wrote:
It might be that there are different types of CRIMPing and maybe not all of them are pathological.
There is the textbook definition, which suggests that it's a chronic malady, a type of addiction.
But there may also be a positive variety, part of a problem-solving stage, when one is looking for, learning about, and trialling a variety of tools and developing the optimal worklows with them.
At the end of that process one finds the tools one was looking for, and CRIMPing is over. One moves into a stage of maintenance, occasionally replacing a tool with a more suitable one within one's relatively permanent suite of tools.
This might explain why some users get very active on this forum for a while, and then they drop off. Maybe they've just found the tools that have more or less permanently solved their problem (like the Org Mode chap in the other thread).
"They all follow the same pattern - enthusiastic use and exploration
followed by a moment of frustration, and then they fall off."
Isn't this a textbook definition of CRIMPing?
It might be that there are different types of CRIMPing and maybe not all of them are pathological.
There is the textbook definition, which suggests that it's a chronic malady, a type of addiction.
But there may also be a positive variety, part of a problem-solving stage, when one is looking for, learning about, and trialling a variety of tools and developing the optimal worklows with them.
At the end of that process one finds the tools one was looking for, and CRIMPing is over. One moves into a stage of maintenance, occasionally replacing a tool with a more suitable one within one's relatively permanent suite of tools.
This might explain why some users get very active on this forum for a while, and then they drop off. Maybe they've just found the tools that have more or less permanently solved their problem (like the Org Mode chap in the other thread).