Earlier this morning, I looked at my project list, and tried to figure out which were acorns that could lead to oaks and which were just small projects. I’ve significantly shifted my priorities for projects as a result. (I still want to do most of the small projects, but it’s the sort of thing where I should be spending twice as much time per week on the big projects than the small projects, rather than the reverse.)
A few weeks ago I tried to close out small projects, to reduce the total number of things that I could be thinking about. I don’t think that worked particularly well, but I don’t know how much of that is an artifact of the current project list I have (where several projects require waiting until some future point to do the next task), or what an optimal number of projects for me to have is.
Workflowy sounded cool, but I’ve tried so many similar apps and mind-mappers and other things supposed to boost my effectiveness (and wasting way more time using them than I was actually saving, if I was even saving any) that I’ve become very wary of trying any new ones.
So, all this leading up to: I’ll also be giving it a try. It seems like it could be a very good midpoint between the mind-bending, waste-time-trying-to-figure-out-a-correct-structure TheBrain (though I haven’t tried the latest version of it, which looks like it could have fixed some of my complaints), and overly-rigid, expand-madly-into-a-humongous-confusing-blob-of-text traditional mind-maps.
I’m giving workflowy a try, after paulfchristiano’s suggestion.
Earlier this morning, I looked at my project list, and tried to figure out which were acorns that could lead to oaks and which were just small projects. I’ve significantly shifted my priorities for projects as a result. (I still want to do most of the small projects, but it’s the sort of thing where I should be spending twice as much time per week on the big projects than the small projects, rather than the reverse.)
A few weeks ago I tried to close out small projects, to reduce the total number of things that I could be thinking about. I don’t think that worked particularly well, but I don’t know how much of that is an artifact of the current project list I have (where several projects require waiting until some future point to do the next task), or what an optimal number of projects for me to have is.
Workflowy sounded cool, but I’ve tried so many similar apps and mind-mappers and other things supposed to boost my effectiveness (and wasting way more time using them than I was actually saving, if I was even saving any) that I’ve become very wary of trying any new ones.
For some reason, your comment prompted me to try it, even though the suggestion that led you to post this in the first place didn’t really register enough to make me go try it.
So, all this leading up to: I’ll also be giving it a try. It seems like it could be a very good midpoint between the mind-bending, waste-time-trying-to-figure-out-a-correct-structure TheBrain (though I haven’t tried the latest version of it, which looks like it could have fixed some of my complaints), and overly-rigid, expand-madly-into-a-humongous-confusing-blob-of-text traditional mind-maps.