So more recently I’ve been using a big 6000-line text file, it has all of my TODO’s as well as some URL’s. I randomized the order a while ago and now I just go through them. I’ve stalled on that (actually doing things is hard, particularly when they’re vague things like “post story”), so I might go back to feed reading; I experimented a bit with TinyTinyRSS but Feedly is probably a better choice.
It’s already random; replacing randomness with more randomness doesn’t help except for mixing in new tasks. I went through ~50 tasks today, so it’s not really that bad; just that I feel like some tasks should have more time dedicated. “Is putting animals in captivity an improvement?” is not the sort of question you want to dash off in 2 minutes. (Final answer: list of various animal rights groups).
The real problem is the list keeps growing longer; I’m starting to run into O(n^2) behavior in my text editor. It’s not really designed for handling a FIFO queue. I’ve been staring at TaskWarrior, which might be adapted for doing the things I want.
So more recently I’ve been using a big 6000-line text file, it has all of my TODO’s as well as some URL’s. I randomized the order a while ago and now I just go through them. I’ve stalled on that (actually doing things is hard, particularly when they’re vague things like “post story”), so I might go back to feed reading; I experimented a bit with TinyTinyRSS but Feedly is probably a better choice.
Re-shuffle!
It’s already random; replacing randomness with more randomness doesn’t help except for mixing in new tasks. I went through ~50 tasks today, so it’s not really that bad; just that I feel like some tasks should have more time dedicated. “Is putting animals in captivity an improvement?” is not the sort of question you want to dash off in 2 minutes. (Final answer: list of various animal rights groups).
The real problem is the list keeps growing longer; I’m starting to run into O(n^2) behavior in my text editor. It’s not really designed for handling a FIFO queue. I’ve been staring at TaskWarrior, which might be adapted for doing the things I want.