mirumirai

Today, I finished my 3-day work in progress: a new schedule to plan out my day and improve my personal efficiency :D Here's the basic gist of it (I might go into more detail as I go on and add some posts on it in my other blog, cognitivehacks.blogspot.net)

Essentially, I wanted to keep track of productive use of time through something I could carry around easily. Furthermore, I needed a flexible schedule, since I enjoy having unplanned spontaneous things happen in my life (more on that in the future) :D

I decided to go with a week-based schedule with a set amount of daily hours. The format is a  twice-folded half-sheet of paper, something thin yet sturdy enough to last a week in my pocket. On the paper are topics of study/things to do. Each one has its own set of checkboxes, with each checkbox representing a half hour of work. I have 9, 7, 5, and 3 hour versions at the moment, with "depth" (focused) and "breadth" versions for 7 and 5 hours. I'm planning to make schedules for the school year as well :D

The documents might be annoying to the perfectionist, since I tried to whip them up as fast as possible: things aren't centered and there are leftover table elements. At the moment the main disadvantage is that you have to carry two extra things in your pockets: a pen and the paper. Hopefully, I'll get my stylus pens for the Centro soon so I only need to carry the paper. Even better is if I can find some program or program something myself for my ipod touch or the Centro.

Here are my 9 hour and 3 hour schedules, respectively.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/mzzoicjdjnn/Summer9 hrs.doc

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2jodwqhi22g/Summer3 hrs .doc

I plan to start everything this Monday, August 3 ^-^

More details and progress reports coming up :D