sacha chua :: living an awesome life

- [ ] What you might be using now
  - [ ] Your brain
  - [ ] Paper
  - [ ] A text file
  - [ ] A sophisticated task management system
- [ ] The power of customization (tell a story)
- [ ] Integrating with your non-Emacs life

- [ ] Top-down
- [ ] Bottom-up
- [ ] Combining both strategies
- [ ] The daily and weekly reviews

- [ ] Outline-oriented planning, dynamic views
- [ ] Day orientation, more flexibility in prioritizing individual tasks, publishing, sharing additional information

- [ ] A day in the life
- [ ] The basics
  - [ ] Working with tasks
  - [ ] Viewing your task list
  - [ ] Prioritizing tasks
  - [ ] Scheduling tasks
  - [ ] Viewing your agenda
  - [ ] Marking a task as done
  - [ ] Weekly reviews
- [ ] Intermediate topics
  - [ ] Clocking time
  - [ ] Repeating tasks
  - [ ] Working with projects
  - [ ] Working with tags
- [ ] Advanced stuff
  - [ ] Managing multiple identities
  - [ ] Estimating your time
  - [ ] Publishing your task list
    - [ ] Twitter task updates
    - [ ] Daily task list
    - [ ] Project summary

- [ ] A day in the life
- [ ] The basics
  - [ ] Working with tasks
  - [ ] Viewing your task list for the day
  - [ ] Prioritizing tasks
  - [ ] Scheduling tasks
  - [ ] Marking a task as done
  - [ ] Weekly reviews
- [ ] Intermediate topics
  - [ ] Clocking time
  - [ ] Working with plan pages
  - [ ] Task overviews
  - [ ] Repeating tasks
- [ ] Advanced stuff
  - [ ] Estimating your time
  - [ ] Publishing your task list
    - [ ] Private information in your tasks
    - [ ] Twitter task updates
    - [ ] Daily task list
    - [ ] Project summary

On This Day...

• 2008: The Return on Mistakes — I still remember the round-eyed awe on a first-year computer science student's face when I walked past the monitor set [...]
• 2008: Weekly report: Week ending Dec 14 — Last week's activities: Work: Site moved into user acceptance testing, hooray! Lots of stuff to work on. Reviewed pictures. Got tablet to [...]
• 2007: Gnus multi-pane tricks, or I heart Planet Emacsen — The tips Joseph Miklojcik shared for reading e-mail in Gnus included this _really_ nifty thing that I hadn't come across [...]
• 2007: Status report: Dec 16 —
• 2007: Oh, the weather outside is frightful —
• 2007: Weekly report — The week was full of starts and stops and starts again. I practiced Christmas carols with Mike Tsang last Tuesday because [...]
• 2007: Salmon steak with dill —
• 2007: Sketchblogging with the Nintendo DS Lite —
• 2007: He loves to cook —
• 2007: So close! —
• 2005: Friday night — Ack! I guess I really am an extrovert now. I find it to be _dreadfully_ quiet for a Friday night. The [...]
• 2005: Characters blogged versus bookmarks — My blogging activity is similar to my bookmarking activity, so that means that bookmarking stuff with del.icio.us doesn't mean I don't blog [...]
• 2005: The Year in Bookmarks — Top 10 tags for 2005 productivity(104) web2.0(88) digitalpinay(88) social(84) useful(83) business(80) blogs(70) research(69) lifehacks(68) blogging(60) Check out my year in bookmarks for [...]
• 2004: YDC Festival: Puppet shows — I caught the tail end of a puppet show carried out with store-bought dolls: Barbie, Billikin… I was surprised at how [...]
• 2004: Refactoring Planner annotation code — Many planner files just contain code for creating hyperlinks from the current buffer. This does not have anything to do with [...]
• 2004: Factors for idea growth — From ParaMode in ZhurnalWiki : But the history of Para mode does highlight three deep sources of power that, in one form [...]
• 2004: Updating the timelog — I often update my task descriptions. We haven't found a neat way to do this in-buffer, so I use planner-edit-task-description. However, [...]
• 2004: Kanji for the day — 初めて会う人と話す時、緊張しないで頑張ってきださい。 はじめてあうひととはなすとき、きんじょうしないでがんばってください。 hajimete au hito to hanasu toki, kinjou shinaide ganbatte kudasai. 頑張ってきださい。| Try your best. 緊張しないで頑張ってきださい。| Try your best not to be nervous. 話す時、緊張しないで頑張ってきださい。| [...]
• 2003: Perl for Windows administration — - Keith_M: One that I use quite often is Win32::AdminMisc by Dave Roth. www.roth.net - Keith_M: Win32API::Net - Keith_M: Win32::Lanman
• 2003: Oooh, cool way to split — use Text::ParseWords; @new = quotewords(",", 0, $text);
• 2003: Cultural differences between UNIX and Windows — http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Biculturalism.html E-Mail from Gino LV. Ledesma
• 2003: Useful Perl resources — - http://learn.perl.org/ - http://www.perlfect.com/articles/ - http://apprentice.perl.org/ - http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/PerlJournal/ - http://learn.perl.org/library Teaching.Perl
• 2003: More stuff from visiting professor — How do you pronounce your name, Dr. Nievergelt? (Neevergelt) - Let me see if I understand your teaching approach. You develop passive [...]
• 2003: Perl training — Plan: - Day 1 morning: What is Perl? Lay of the land - Day 1 afternoon: Basic syntax, Perl for extracting data - [...]
• 2003: Hey, more thoughts on kara — Finite state machines are perfect for pen and paper, because students can check it manually - and they can enlist their [...]
• 2003: Moving computing into the basics — Mathematics users - elementary mathematics, technicians have more mathematics. So the mathematics teachers could say all we have to teach our students [...]
• 2003: Meeting with Dr. Juerg Nievergelt — - Advocates strong mathematical approach in first year - Upcoming split - Computational science - common math: numeric and symbolic computation (6 [...]
• 2003: More about group reviews — Perhaps setting up this kind of tutoring in-class is a good way to encourage student interaction and close the gap between [...]
• 2003: Recipe from [[bbdb://Aadisht][Aadisht Khanna]] — 1. Set Capsicum, Minced Meat, Sweet Corn, Cheese 2. Slice off capsicum tops. 3. Scoop out capsicum innards. 4. Stuff Capsicum with (Cheese&&(Minced [...]
• 2003: Backlog: Fish - 2003.12.15 — - Find small sections of fish. I haven't gotten around to eating fish bellies yet, although many people swear by them. [...]

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