Weekly review: Visual thinking, time management – Week ending July 12, 2013

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Dug into the D3 data visualization library a little more this week – got lots of coding done! =) Also, I’ve been working on creating resources for visual thinking, and I’m looking forward to making more. =)

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Focus areas and time review

  • Business (44.3h – 26%)
    • Earn (15.9h – 35% of Business)
      • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
      • [X] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
      • [X] Follow up on overview
      • [X] Sketch how to make a deputation
      • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
      • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • Build (26.4h – 59% of Business)
      • Quantified Awesome (16.1h)
        • [X] Sketch out receipt tracking interface
        • [X] Add a filter string
        • [X] Add duration to last activity
        • [X] Add friendly names
        • [X] Add goals to nav
        • [X] Add receipt categories
        • [X] Add sunburst graph for grocery data
        • [X] Add zoom level selection to review
        • [X] Fix monthly view for time summary
        • [X] Get all tests passing
        • [X] Get tests to pass again
        • [X] Set up my lookup and category data
        • [X] Write more integration tests
        • [X] Write tests for receipt tracking interface
        • [X] Sort durations by category instead of total
      • Drawing (7.0h)
        • [X] Practise drawing hands
        • [X] Practise drawing figures
        • [X] Prepare presentation on emotions
        • [ ] Design landing page for livinganawesomelife.com
        • [ ] Design new front for business cards
        • [ ] Design sketchnoting tips for business cards
        • [ ] Redesign Experivis site
        • [ ] Sketchnote a book
      • Paperwork (3.1h)
        • [X] Follow up with CRA regarding reassessment
        • [X] Pay myself annual salary of $15,000
    • Connect (1.9h – 4% of Business)
      • [X] Review Emacs chat transcript and post it
      • [ ] Send out Visual Thinkers Toronto message
      • [ ] Host another LivingAnAwesomeLife hangout
      • [ ] Write blog post on life planning with Mural.ly and Evernote
      • [ ] Do a quick video on Areas & Outlines
      • [ ] Order new business cards
  • Relationships (4.1h – 2%)
    • [X] Pick up bicycle
    • [X] Research R
    • [ ] Go to Eric’s housewarming party
  • Discretionary – Productive (16.6h – 9%)
    • [X] Call Sun Life to find out if the recare frequency also affects cleaning
    • [X] Check with dentist regarding filling
    • Lost passport
      • [X] Follow up on my passport
      • [X] Follow up on my passport again
      • [X] [#A] File for police report
      • [X] [#A] Print report from Canada Post
      • [X] File an appeal with the ombudsman
      • [X] Print everything that needs printing
      • [X] Withdraw more cash for passport application
      • [ ] Follow up with consulate regarding police report (should have been faxed)
    • Writing (4.5h)
      • [X] Add Bill Z to possible Emacs book repository
      • [ ] Add more to my outline
  • Discretionary – Play (9.9h – 5%)
  • Personal routines (17.2h – 10%)
  • Unpaid work (13.3h – 7%)
  • Sleep (62.8h – 37% – average of 9.0 per day)
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