Marcin โmborkโ Borkowski about his version of #pomodoro which he calls #tomato: https://mbork.pl/2025-02-01_ketchup.el
Well, it sounds to me that the pomodoro method is not working for him for the same reasons it was not working for me - although I only tried for a brief period of time.
Marcin found some interesting variant. I would have declared this method non-functional for me instead. ๐
#PIM #timemanagement #productivity #pomodorotechnique #Beeminder
I woke up feeling still ๐ด tired but the morning โ๏ธ sunlight streaming in when I went downstairs was glorious and persuaded me it was a good morning for a ๐ฒ bike ride after all. Then I hit 5000 miles on my #ebike and ended up writing a long #blog post that's half about my bike and half about using #beeminder ๐ to commit to doing the things you want to do really and enjoying doing them. #BikeTooter
I mention that goal because I have absolutely seen people use Beeminder in a way that's downright abusive to themselves, but it's not inherent to the tool. I use Beeminder for a bunch of healthy habits and work-life balance things. It's what you make of it: for me, the charge makes concrete the cost of deciding between something good for me and what I want to do in the moment. If it still seems worth it, then that's fine. I tend not to view it as punishing myself (though some do).
Full disclosure: I do work for Beeminder, and I'm their head of support. If you have any questions etc, it'd be easier for me if you could direct them to my support team at support [at] beeminder [dot] com, unless they're anything about how I personally use it.
Which I do, a lot. My favourite goal is the one designed to stop me working too much: https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/clockoff
I have to keep my total number of work hours in a day under that threshold, or I lose more than I gain by it.
Over on Humble Bundle there's a productivity pack featuring Beeminder: https://www.humblebundle.com/software/healthy-habits-toolkit-build-successful-routines-for-life-software
Beeminder is an app where you set goals: if you don't meet them, you get charged. To avoid just changing your goals at the last minute, changes need to be made 7 days ahead.
It isn't for everyone, but if you wanted to give it a try, this could be a pretty good deal. You can get $10 of our "honey money" to use against any charges, and 50% off on purchasing extra honey money.
A fun fact about predicting your own behavior, particularly publicly, is that the act of predicting it changes the prediction. โIโm 75% likely to maintain my Duolingo streak all year, but now that Iโve said so Iโm actually 90% likely, but now that Iโve said that, โฆโ Or what happens when the probability starts very low but you add a wager? Itโs like this self-describing xkcd
Thinking about this right now because I set up one of my #Beeminder goals for this year's total books read (with data grabbed from StoryGraph) right at the start of the year, but I'm adding one for pages and messing about to get it to start from day 1.
I want my pretty graphs!
Here's the books count one: https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/2023reading
Again: the goal set here is not about making myself read some record number of books, it's about helping myself make the time in a way that works for my brain.
Inspired by various folks, name 5-7 things that interest you, but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. โจโฉThen, boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same.
#SFF
#CrimeFiction
#InfectiousDiseases
#rabbits
#FFXIV
#Beeminder
#PopularScience
Okay! I've written a list of mundane resolutions for 2019:
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmQGwLCYPtH648gKczcPdvG38FVCWKCiWWckqmyz9ypVgJ/resolve.txt
... and set up a #beeminder to make one step every day toward them for all of this year.
https://www.beeminder.com/dannyobrien/improve2019
I don't think I'll be able to achieve all of them (or any of them!), but I feel like I'm at a point in my life when I can make progress with them all, so here I go... #improve2019
๐๐ฆ๐ธ
Karl Voit 
Kirsty Darbyshire
Nicky
Danny O'B
Danny O'B
Crazypedia 