Har idag förberett två föreläsningar till början på veckan: läst på om några detaljer samt producerat föreläsningsmaterial. Avslutade söndagen med ett långpass, löpning i skogen alltså, och så ett bodypumppass. Räkpastan och ostkakan smakar extra gott efteråt. Kul att Sverige vann mot Finland, eller inte … Nu en timme Vuelta.
Det bästa namnet på ett rockband måste vara Soundtrack of our lives.
Inte för att jag är ett fan av gruppen men namnet säger vad musik är: ett ljudspår till våra liv, speciellt bakåt i tiden.
Jag har till exempel följt ”allt” som Talking Heads, David Byrne och Tom Tom Club har gjort — och deras musik har blivit mitt livs ljudspår. Jag kan minnas specifika platser varje gång jag hör låtarna och minnas känslorna när jag ser de gamla skivomslagen (LP!).
Autofocus 2 (AF2) is a task management system created by Mark Forster
AF2 is designed to minimize procrastination. It also has a low overhead, e.g., you really do things instead of fiddling with the task management system.
AF2 was originally developed for a notebook, pen and markers. I have recently started using an electronic version of it on my Palm Tungsten T3.
The main application that I use is ShadowPlan. In order to track and also save a history of what I have done I have linked ShadowPlan to Life Balance from Llamagraphcis, which in turn is linked to Natara Daynotez.
I use the custom list in Shadow with numbering 1, 2, 3, … at level 1 and i, ii, iii, … at level 2. Level 1 corresponds to a page and level 2 corresponds to the lines on a page. The custom list in ShadowPlan is also configured to show a checkbox for each entry, a ToDo link (linked to my ToDo app Life Balance) and also the Start date (so that I know when I created the entry in the list).
When I have done a task in the Shadow list, I check the box and the task is struck out. I also check the ToDo link box, which means that the finished task is sent to Life Balance. In Life Balance I sort the task into one of my life categories, which means that I can track my balance in life. At the same time Daynotez registers what I have done the day because I have configured Life Balance to link to Daynotez. I have also created a filter in ShadowPlan that filters out finished tasks and only lists active tasks on the list, which is great to have in both Reverse and Forward mode. I remove the filter when in Review mode and when putting tasks on notice. Each day I create a list of things that I want to focus on by marking the tasks in bold. This ToDo list I have easy access to by the way of a filter in ShadowPlan that filters on tasks ”marked as bold” and ”not checked”.
I change the colour of tasks that become on notice in AF2/Shadow to blue. The next day, if I have not done the blue tasks, I change their colour to red and akso tag them as dismissed so that I must put them on review. The dismissal procedure is really what I like about AF2 because it makes me work on older tasks too or rephrase them, if I find that I still want to them during the review phase. Otherwise the dismissed tasks remain on the list as red items, corresponding to David Allen’s Someday/Maybe list in GtD.
Speaking of GtD, which I have been using since 2002, I still use the contexts from it, specifically @Errands and @Phone. These I activate by adding a task in AF2 for it, e.g., ”check context @Phone”.
I follow Forster’s instructions as written and organize the list accordingly, e.g., new tasks are added to the bottom to the AF2 list in ShadowPlan.
Nu är biljetterna till finska lappland bokade. Avslutar min semester med ett besök hos släktingar i mitt hemland. Mycket bastu och bad i naturen kommer det att bli.
Ikväll var det dags för första salsan på hemmaplan efter semestern. L’Orient hade slagit upp portarna och Sami var glad som vanligt. Discjockeyn spelade några bra låtar, till och med en bachata, så det blev dans och sedan snack med alla vännerna. Kom hem, öm i fötterna men glad. Det är härligt med dans!