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Geek Culture / Defeat Procrastination!

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TheComet
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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 01:54 Edited at: 9th Feb 2013 03:27
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Very old news actually, but this software isn't known by a lot of people at all.

http://www.beatpoints.com/cherrytomato/

Give it a try! It's increased my productivity by roughly 60%.

The basic idea of this program is to break your work into small "pomodoro sessions". Each session lasts 25 minutes, and during this time, the program tracks everything you do (how much time you spend in every program, keystrokes, mouse movement). When the 25 minutes are over, you have to stop your work and it gives you a summary on what you were doing in which program for how long. You can then score yourself on how productive you were, and over time you can get a sense of your overall productivity.

The new version actually doesn't do any activity tracking. You still get to score yourself, but there aren't any exact details on your session. I'm still using the alpha version, not the beta version.

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 02:53
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The idea behind this software is great, but the ticking noise completely decimates the usability of this software... Sure, I could mute the computer, but that gets rid of the possibility of listening to music while working. Any way to turn off that sound that you know of?

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You're right, this new version is really crappy.

I've attached the old version to the first post.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 03:40 Edited at: 9th Feb 2013 03:42
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Their website is very streamlined.

The ticking is very, very annoying. Maybe a tone or something every couple minutes. Not 5 ticks per second!

Quote: "If you have a smart phone that is on the same WIFI network as the computer running cherrytomato, you can remote control cherrytomato with it. To do this, go to this url from your phone:"


http://localhost:8100/Settings.htm This is a pretty clever way to control the settings. I assume you can do this via any networked computer, xbox, ps3, etc. Although, I'm not sure how effective the scoring would be if you were not at the computer it is running on for it to track application usage, etc.

Edit: Thanks for the old version!

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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 03:56
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Ah, I also learned of a feature I had never known of before; selectively muting programs with Windows 7.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 04:09
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Quote: "The idea behind this software is great, but the ticking noise completely decimates the usability of this software... Sure, I could mute the computer, but that gets rid of the possibility of listening to music while working. Any way to turn off that sound that you know of?"




right click on the sound options - volume control panel - turn off that specific software


fairly sure that should work



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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 09:19 Edited at: 9th Feb 2013 09:20
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I actually tried the Pomodoro technique when I was in my third year at university and it was productive. When I did it I had a plugin for Google Chrome that basically disabled all of my distracting websites during the periods I was supposed to work. It was a pretty neat tool.

Might give Cherry Tomato a try, not seen it before.

Another useful anti-procrastination tool, which is useful for writers is called 'Write or Die', basically what you do is you set yourself a target, a time limit, a warning and a grace period for that warning and what it'll do is push you into a continuous writing session where you're not permitted to stop, except for those little grace periods (basically useful for thinking). It also has a mode called 'Kamikaze Mode', which starts deleting words if you stop typing for too long. Naturally I love the tool, kamikaze mode is perfectly wicked.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 09:22
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Quote: "right click on the sound options - volume control panel - turn off that specific software"

It's under "volume mixer" but only Win7 up, maybe in Vista too, iirc. Pretty sure though XP's mixer only gave the channels.

...Wait, does anybody still use XP

Quote: "fairly sure that should work"

Seems to for Winamp & others.


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Just a heads up to those using this program, it can appear slightly spammmy on the skype home page, looking at you Comet!




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@ Melancholic - Oh I was doing that on purpose to annoy everyone.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 14:27
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That's how you lose friends.

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Posted: 9th Feb 2013 15:21
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Who looks at the skype homepage anyway?

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There's a Skype homepage??? I don't remember that? Wait, *shifts to the 26th universe* ... *shifts back to the 27th universe* ... Oh, it makes sense now. Nevermind.


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Yes there is a skype homepage!, and more people should look at it so they can see my pseudo-intellectual quotes and see how much of a thoughtful, deep and intellectual person i am! Wait, that's not what people think at all...


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Ooh, that means I can start putting up pseudo-intellectual quotes too.
"The world is a place within a space"
"The world exist, do you?"
"I am the world, the world is me. We are the dream, floating on the child."
"Procrastination: the thing that fuels ideas and stifles production"

I'm getting good! What was this thread about again? Right, procrastination. Well in that case I'll post something meaningful:





...tomorrow.


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