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Effective Procrastination
with HiveMinder

Paul Fenwick

Perl Training Australia

Task management

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Not doing things

Me practicing my combat magic. ;)

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Effective Procrastination

Tasks must get done...

...but not
all today

http://hiveminder.com/

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food]

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food]

++Buy coffee [shopping food]

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food]

++Buy coffee [shopping food]

+Write hiveminder talk [talks][due:Wed]

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food]

++Buy coffee [shopping food]

+Write hiveminder talk [talks][due:Wed]

-Get free wiimote jacket [games wii]
Nintendo: 03 9730 9822

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food]

++Buy coffee [shopping food]

+Write hiveminder talk [talks][due:Wed]

-Get free wiimote jacket [games wii]
Nintendo: 03 9730 9822

--Watch Life on Mars [tv @home leisure]

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food]

++Buy coffee [shopping food]

+Write hiveminder talk [talks][due:Wed]

-Get free wiimote jacket [games wii]
Nintendo: 03 9730 9822

--Watch Life on Mars [tv @home leisure]

Release Some::Project!! [@work]

Sharing tasks?

Assigning tasks

Give talk on Net::Jaiku [due:Wed] [owner: [email protected]]

Assigning tasks

Give talk on Net::Jaiku [due:Wed] [owner: [email protected]]

Return Firefly DVDs [borrowed] [owner:[email protected]]

Assigning tasks

Give talk on Net::Jaiku [due:Wed] [owner: [email protected]]

Return Firefly DVDs [borrowed] [owner:[email protected]]

Provide ADSL2+ in Coburg, dammit! [owner: [email protected]]

Groups

Shared TODO

Household group

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food] [group:household]

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food] [group:household]

++Buy coffee [shopping food] [group:household]

Braindump commands

Buy bread [shopping food] [group:household]

++Buy coffee [shopping food] [group:household]

Put out recycling [due:Wed] [chores] [group:household] [hide until: Wed]

Easy to add tasks

Problem

Record everything

Too many tasks!

Too many
=
Too hard!

Solution:

Procrastinate

Review each morning

Know what you're doing

Know what you're not

Just one problem...

It all sucks!

Send an
e-mail?

Navigate a web-page?

Move the mouse?

Too hard!

Showing tasks

todo @work

tood @work

t @work

Creating tasks

Context

Showing Context

Using context

Doing tasks

done #7ABC

done /keyword

todo @garden
done these

Task Review

review @work

review these

accept
accept these
review these

Task review

T (hide until tomorrow)

6 (hide for six days)

priority this high

give this to [email protected]

tag this with holiday scuba

comment this Draft is on my desk.

IM interface
is good!

Except...

c Prune apricot tree
[@home garden chores] [group:household]

Aliases

alias chore=create [group:household]
[chores @home]

chore Wash dishes

alias garden=create [group:household]
[chores @home garden]

garden
Prune apricot tree

alias w=todo @work

Hiveminder doesn't do everything

Programmer API

Programmer API:

Shawn works
really well!

Other Tricks

Calender Integration

Any hiveminder page can export a ical feed.

Calender integration

On Sunbird (mozilla calendar):

Copy link location

Add as iCalendar (Read-only)

Change webcal:// to http://

You can give this to others; no auth needed

Hiveminder List
= Atom Feed

Text mode editing

Remember...

Procrastination
can be good...

[email protected]

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