The real problem is assigning values to the different tasks. How valuable is planning out my course schedule for the next year? Evaluating a specific research agenda? Exploring the papers in a new field? Unfortunately, I lack good answers for these questions. I’m vaguely aware that I should have >5 articles published when I enter the job market. But the weightings for quality, quantity, prestige and coherence of these publications are unclear. This is a vital area for further research.
I am selftaught and terribly bad at estimating what’s left to code. I’ll probably finish it when my exams make me procrastinate the most.
To sum it up in a few words :
It manages a db of entries containing your goals
It asks you “which is more important” after picking 2 items
It then asks you “which takes most time to complete”
It computes ELO score (one for “importance” and one for “length”)
You do this with enough pairs of entries, you can now rank all your tasks by what is the most important and takes the less time, even if sometimes you can’t compare two items the ELO will find a way to converge somewhat, and supposedly fast enough.
The reason my coding is so slow is that I try to make it generalizable for n scores. For example for my movie database : it takes into account importance / length / size of the file. In your situation, you could add a question “what will help me most to become a professor” etc.
This way I watch what’s important and short while never fulling my hard drive to the brim.
If there are coders that whish to participate and that are armed with tremendous patience for my lack of skills, I could open the github. If you have any question or recommendation don’t hesitate.
I have been slowly developping my own python app to solve this. I have talked here about this before so let me put the link to my previous comment where I explained this : https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/54Bw7Yxouzdg5KxsF/how-do-you-organise-your-reading?commentId=aGtZWpnn9ecPtQoLp
I am selftaught and terribly bad at estimating what’s left to code. I’ll probably finish it when my exams make me procrastinate the most.
To sum it up in a few words : It manages a db of entries containing your goals It asks you “which is more important” after picking 2 items It then asks you “which takes most time to complete” It computes ELO score (one for “importance” and one for “length”) You do this with enough pairs of entries, you can now rank all your tasks by what is the most important and takes the less time, even if sometimes you can’t compare two items the ELO will find a way to converge somewhat, and supposedly fast enough.
The reason my coding is so slow is that I try to make it generalizable for n scores. For example for my movie database : it takes into account importance / length / size of the file. In your situation, you could add a question “what will help me most to become a professor” etc.
This way I watch what’s important and short while never fulling my hard drive to the brim.
If there are coders that whish to participate and that are armed with tremendous patience for my lack of skills, I could open the github. If you have any question or recommendation don’t hesitate.