Category Archives: Scheduling

Update on Dezhi Wu’s Research #2

Posted on August 19, 2011 by fwade_admin

I’m still working through the first chapter of Dezhi Wu’s book “Temporal Structures in Individual Time Management,” but it’s already leading to some interesting places. She used four criteria to characterize individual time management quality: planning meeting deadlines sensing a … Continue reading →

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Possibly the Best Time Management Research Completed. Period.

Posted on August 12, 2011 by fwade_admin

I am reading through the first chapters of a book written by Professor Dezhi Wu entitled Temporal Structures in Individual Time management: Practices to Enhance Calendar Tool Design. It’s a seminal work.  But I am a bit biased as I … Continue reading →

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Further Evidence that Lists Are Limiting

Posted on August 5, 2011 by fwade_admin

In recent posts, I have been making the point that time management systems that rely on keeping track of time demands on lists vs. schedules are limited, and become a problem when the total number increases above  certain threshold.  Lists … Continue reading →

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A Manipulate-able Calendar

Posted on July 6, 2011 by fwade_admin

In earlier posts, I stepped into the future and imagined what it would be like to have a calendar that sat inside your watch, and projected a calendar in front of you in the form of a virtual touch-screen that … Continue reading →

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A Circular Schedule

Posted on July 4, 2011 by fwade_admin

This is something new. Most of us think of schedules in linear terms, the way we think of calendars and diaries.  Along comes the Muji Chronotebook to change all that, with the first circular daily schedule I have ever seen. … Continue reading →

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Hard Thinking in a Busy Schedule

Posted on June 13, 2011 by fwade_admin

I found another of Cal Newport’s gems that fits quite well into the 2Time way of thinking.  Getting Creative Things Done: How to Fit Hard Thinking into a Busy Schedule. In this post he makes the point that the best … Continue reading →

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Makers vs. Managers

Posted on June 8, 2011 by fwade_admin

This is an interesting essay from Paul Graham that describes two very different mindsets to how one’s time is used throughout the day. He distinguishes between managers who move from one activity to another from creators/makers who need to have … Continue reading →

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A Fascinating Account of Improvement

Posted on June 6, 2011 by fwade_admin

I read an interesting post written by Cal Newport over at the 99% blog entitled “A Day Without Distraction: Lessons Learned from 12 Hours of Forced Focus.” The author makes a significant change in his time management system, by adopting … Continue reading →

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New Terminology for Scheduling

Posted on May 16, 2011 by fwade_admin

Now and then I find that here on 2Time I am forced to craft a new word for a concept that doesn’t quite have the right definition.  For example, “time demand” is a phrase I had to coin in the … Continue reading →

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Time to Have a Girlfriend

Posted on May 11, 2011 by fwade_admin

A few years ago when I was struggling in a first marriage that ultimately failed, I came across some advice that I have never forgotten.  It was simple and brutal – if you want your relationship to last, spend 15 … Continue reading →

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