Notable

Time-management software — offline version. Photo by: dgray_xplane, Actual list by Bill Westerman.

A member of the back-to-paper movement, I love Bill Westerman´s “where the day went to crap” note on this illustration, as well as how this photo illustrates the power of analog lists. In my estimation PDA´s and, hm-hmm iPhones, take at least 10 seconds longer per interaction with one´s list. What´s  more, just looking at one´s iPhone tempts to check Twitter, and e-mail, and, and… Come on you know I am right, but the point is one can easily get distracted from the task at hand.

Another illustration I appreciate – “The Quality vs. Quantity Whiteboard UX “  manifesto, which includes these rules:

Email

• Check e-mail only @ 10:00AM, 1:00PM, 4:00PM.  Set e-mail check every 3 hours
• Send anytime
• No Email on Evenings
• No Email on Weekends
• Emergency? = Use phone

Focus

• Focus: 1-3 activities max/day
• Log: 1-3 succinct status bullets everyday on team Wiki

• Minimize chat
• Maximize Single Tasking

Out by 5:30PM – NO EXCUSES -

(Reality check: The author of this post notes this  just one day after skulking away from the office at 10PM on a Friday, because one fix sparked a slippery slope of obsessive compulsive css and functionality tweaking on the university´s leadership blog.)