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Der Matthias hat mich heute indirekt auf Steve Hanov’s Technology Blog aufmerksam gemacht, insbesondere auf die folgende Darstellung:

In meinen täglichen Exkursen (die wohl – wie auch aus dem unten zitierten Artikel hervorgeht – ein Produktivitätsproblem darstellen könnten) bin ich auf das Blog von Adam Howell gestoßen, wobei ich insbesondere den Artikel The iPhone productivy plan sehr interessant finde:

When you earn your living sitting in front of the computer all day, you eventually find lots of highly effective ways to waste time sitting in front of the computer all day.

After trying — and failing at — jargony productivity plans like GTD and 4HWW, I decided finding the one perfect way to make to-do lists wasn’t the answer. After all, making the to-do list isn’t the important part. Making sure you do the stuff on it is.

And what was keeping me from my to-do lists was the web. When tired or challenged or waiting or stuck I would browse. It was just so much easier than working.

In order to get more done I was going to have to eliminate that easy out, so I came up with the iPhone productivity plan (I use the terms “productivity plan” here loosely and with tongue firmly planted in cheek). Simply put:

• I dumped all the sites I frequent too often into an /etc/hosts file, blocking them on both my laptops
• I added those same sites as bookmarks on my iPhone
• I made sure the things I was working on were — if at all possible — fun and inspiring

Not much to it. At first I was worried that my decreased browsing time would cause me to miss out. But I found that during the course of a day, while waiting in line or stopped at a light, I had plenty of opportunities to catch up.

I also realized those sites that I had previously found so crucial to my everyday life and work didn’t actually have that much information on them that was immediately and absolutely necessary to know. Visiting them once a day or a couple times a week was more than enough.

And, lastly, I made sure the things I was doing with my new found time didn’t suck. I’ve axed a couple things that I no longer enjoyed working on and it’s already showing in my other work. If the real reason you can’t get stuff done is because you hate what you’re doing, no amount of plan will save you.

I’ve been doing this for a few weeks now and it’s been working well for me. Of course you might hate it. That’s the problem with productivity plans, they’re so personal they usually only work for the creator and those who think exactly like them. You’re probably better off not doing anything I or anyone else tells you when it comes to your workflow. Just trial and error your way into your own plan. And then get back to work.

Ich denke das ist eine durchaus sinnvolle Idee, die man mal probieren könnte. Vielleicht geht dann auch wieder mehr an der Diplomarbeit weiter. Andererseits kann ich mir nicht vorstellen das ich das durchziehe, also lass ichs lieber gleich – und füge das Blog zur Liste meiner zu-besuchenden-Seiten hinzu…