slack is just basically irc with some tooling right?
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Sunday, 25 January 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
afaict yes
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 January 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
yes plus search
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 25 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
and elaborate emoji support
it's really very good just like IRC is good, but also maybe a bit better
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 25 January 2015 21:42 (nine years ago) link
I will see if I can delegate invites to markers but yeah, just ilx mail me
― mh, Monday, 26 January 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
btw back in the day some work friends had an irc server, which slack is kind of like, and it was great for popping in and asking questions
― mh, Monday, 26 January 2015 00:30 (nine years ago) link
no one is using this thing and i want(ed) to delete my account and i canβt
― markers, Monday, 26 January 2015 01:01 (nine years ago) link
so i use irccloud.com for all my irc needs and it is great. also my coworkers and i have an irc channel but getting people to adopt irc is uneven, especially w/o something like irccloud.
it surprises me how terrible lync is at chatrooms btw.
― celfie tucker 48 (s.clover), Monday, 26 January 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link
markers I think I'll be more likely to sit on it during the week if I'm killing time at work? most people just aren't going to sit on it all day imo
Fizzles, added.
― mh, Monday, 26 January 2015 14:39 (nine years ago) link
cheers mh, appreciated.
― Fizzles, Monday, 26 January 2015 15:28 (nine years ago) link
rly want to get a couple of work colleagues on slack when they come out with a win client. teamviewer is a sack o shit for chat.
― sktsh, Saturday, 31 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
So did any of you actually end up reading that book about tidying? It was . . . something.
― markers, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
The part about shitting was good.
yes i think it was discussed briefly on another thread?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 15:39 (nine years ago) link
oh no wait we talked about it here
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 15:40 (nine years ago) link
I kind of put it to the side, need to get to that part
― mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
i'm near the end of that whole process. i kind of skimmed the book for the important bits.
i don't remember anything about shitting.
― goole, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
i was about to buy this this week
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
hoos come to ilxor.slack.com
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
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i love this post on this thread, i feel like it sums it up
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
what is slack, should i be on slack
― goole, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
imo yes
― mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
http://www.fastcompany.com/3041905/slacks-founder-on-how-they-became-a-1-billion-company-in-two-years
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
it's a nearly pure profit product, isn't it? afaict the mobile app stuff took some work, but the desktop app appears to be a Google Chrome container and it's basically a wrapper over irc
the main innovation in that article is having a spot to see a channel description and how many people are in the channel
o_O
― mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:14 (nine years ago) link
how do i get in to ilxor.slack.com
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
fb message me your email
― mh, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:22 (nine years ago) link
also the search and integrations are a big deal i think
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
just found this 'someday/maybe' list last modified October 2008
Someday/MaybeTO WATCHTwin PeaksTODOBuy a CD Wallet 300+ CDsCreate Ren Fair magic act? +contact Tia Panchi for Ren costumePROJECTSWeird Movie Night monthly?Closet as zazenkai room?Learn a programming language (Python or Ruby)Learn to change your oil
TO WATCHTwin Peaks
TODOBuy a CD Wallet 300+ CDsCreate Ren Fair magic act? +contact Tia Panchi for Ren costume
PROJECTSWeird Movie Night monthly?Closet as zazenkai room?Learn a programming language (Python or Ruby)Learn to change your oil
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 September 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
i don't know how to change my oil
"create ren fair magic act?" is the most beautiful question i've ever seen
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 3 September 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
i got so close to editing the list for embarassment but
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 3 September 2015 00:44 (eight years ago) link
same therapist who made me read Power of Habit now has me reading Better Than Before, which is decent, kind of gets more into how to get yourself to stick to habits, insights into how different kind of personalities might respond better to different kinds of stimuli, etc.
I have managed to get myself to go to the gym three work lunchtimes per week, and it's really improving my life in many ways. There's this thing in Power of Habit about a "keystone habit" that will help improve other habits, and exercise is a classic one.
I have all these tricks I've developed to get myself to the gym regularly: (1) I put it on the calendar (2) I have an alarm tone on my phone that is just for gym time, different than other alarm sounds I use (3) I always have my gym bag packed, in my office, ready to go (4) I always have something sweet after the workout, like a protein bar, to feel like I got a "reward" (5) I make a point of at least briefly talking to the gym desk people (or at a minimum making sure I say hi/by) every time I go in, because then I feel like someone is taking note that I was there. I also found a membership cheap enough that I can never use money as an excuse (unless my situation gets really bad).
I've been trying and failing for years to work on things like distraction and sleep, but the exercise is helping me both focus better and feel more tired at the end of the day. My plan is to tackle my sleep habits next, now that the workout thing is more or less established (one habit at a time is another big thing).
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 September 2015 02:06 (eight years ago) link
I had this realization that I was always completely against self-help books because they're terrible literature, but that's stupid because they're not literature at all, they're just tools.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 3 September 2015 02:18 (eight years ago) link
Aaaaaand instead of working on the final two papers that stand between me and FREEDOM FROM GRADUATE SCHOOL, I am spending valuable time looking reading about productivity techniques I could use in the writing of said papers.
Anyone wanna talk about the pomodoro technique? Please say yes, as then I can spend even more time talking about writing my final two papers rather than writing my final two papers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Techniquehttp://pomodorotechnique.com/
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Thursday, 10 December 2015 00:27 (eight years ago) link
I flirted with the idea of buying one of those little timer things one time and then I realized what I actually needed was to open up my notebook to the to-do list I was ignoring and just suck it up and do some of the fucking things on it.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:42 (eight years ago) link
There is not a single GTD / productivity method on earth that solves the "going-to-the-DMV" problem, i.e. don't wanna don't wanna
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
this though, I do like, in theory, and relates somewhat to the way I use my notebooks:
http://www.amandaorson.com/reverse-to-do-list/
I don't write down everything I do, but I take notes as a record of my having done "stuff" and that reminds me when I fill up 50 pages past the last list and haven't checked off hardly any of my to-dos, that there were many reasons why.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:45 (eight years ago) link
Love Pomodoro. Good for writing. I just use the free browser pomodoro. My wife and I call them "pomos." "Just gonna do one pomo then I'll get dinner ready," etc.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:46 (eight years ago) link
i've tried the browser pomodoro, and i like how the time limit encourages me to take breaks and then deliberately intensely focus.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 10 December 2015 05:29 (eight years ago) link
Yesterday I numbered all the pages in my new Shinola medium softcover ruled journals, can't wait to work my way through this Shanghai Tang Moleskine.
I've pretty much settled on a "shapes" system for tracking tasks and use the page numbers to carry things over and reference previous notes. As above, still no solution to the to-do items that just exhaust me as soon as I glance at them.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
i've been doing bullet-style journaling since march and it's actually pretty great --- it's the first organizational system that has worked and that i've stuck with for longer than a couple weeks
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
my tbi recovery, such as it is, has been incredibly long, slow, and fitful. i've had so many steps and phases in my gradual improvements, but i've been pretty consistently fascinated by all stuff about cognition, focus, distraction, mindfulness, etc. mostly the usual pop-cultural level shit i guess, but i've been considering trying to reinitiate my truncated gtd methods re-established.
i enjoyed the hell out of chris bailey's productivity-oriented commentary in the interview below during my morning bike ride, and he concluded by mentioning the utility of gtd and allen's main insight, which he summarizes as "your brain is meant to have ideas, not track tons of information."
also, i think my bike is my fidget spinner, or maybe knitting.
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/e/56091726
side bene- he caused me to listen to the saints on the way to work.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
re-established
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 5 September 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
Not specific, but I feel like both my job and non-job life keep getting more complex and demanding. I'm just kind of wondering, and maybe a procrastination message board is a bad place to ask this, but do most of you feel like you can kind of visualize your day and know how you're going to manage it and when you do what, or do you just kind of charge at a pile of shit to do and try to take out as much of it as you can? I feel more in the latter category and it's increasingly not serving me well.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 8 October 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
*not specific to the GTD system (which I don't use) I mean
Theres things you can plan for and prep for that you can presume will go as expected, things you can plan and schedule that you know will be messy and things you cant rly plan for and i try to balance the three i think
― fix up luke shawp (darraghmac), Friday, 8 October 2021 22:43 (two years ago) link
Not sure if this is the best thread, but I was just imagining a device that could help me organize and plan better - maybe just a tablet on a stand is what I'm picturing, but I was thinking about how I have this Skylight digital picture frame thingy for my desk, and what if instead of displaying photos, it displayed to-do lists, punch lists, or planning docs? Maybe I could have like three docs on it that I could just easily swipe between.
Should I just get like a $200 tablet that can run Microsoft Office and a stand? Is there something out there specifically designed for this purpose?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 26 January 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
Don't you already have a phone with a calendar with you 24/365? Or is the idea you just want it to be something on your desk aggressively blaring at you like a lighthouse for procrastinators.
NB I am known to procrastinate.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 26 January 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Sorry if that came across as aggressive. It just seemed funny to spend that kind of money to duplicate a functionality you probably already have.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 26 January 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link