Timing Your Routine Tasks On The Computer
I keep a stopwatch on my computer table now. I start timing the moment I launch Mozilla and Thunderbird. The sole purpose of this stopwatch is to keep track of how long I take altogether to…
1) Check and reply my emails
2) Briefly view the few forums I’m a member of
3) Check the university blackboard for any new course material
4) Reply emails
5) Blog, as well as run through my blogroll
6) BBC and CNA news
7) Friendster and Facebook for any new requests (not cupcake and all that crap requests). Send and reply messages if I need to.
Altogether, I took 20 minutes (without publishing long entries with pictures on Orangeous). Without the stopwatch I would have spent almost an hour doing the accomplishing the same tasks.
The stopwatch ticking away, made me subconsciously aware of my time constraints, and as a result, I refrained from the time-consuming habit of surfing around, browsing through random stuff on Wikipedia, Youtube and stuff like that.
If you have a habit of surfing around aimlessly and wish to cut down, I hope this stopwatch method works for you.
I think only people like you will need this method.
Sky Pang
19 September, 2008 at 5:17 PM
yup yup =D no more aimless surfing around for me!
Sukianto H. Christopher
20 September, 2008 at 5:24 AM