Lots of recordings this week: a quick demo of a new Camtasia Studio feature, a webinar I gave on Evernote and visual thinking, and an experimental hangout. =) Check out the links in the list below!

Blog posts

• Backyard work; Weekly review: Week ending June 14, 2013
• Web experiments this week: Webinar on “How to Improve Your Visual Thinking” and a Google Hangout on blogging; would love to connect with you!
• Oooh, Camtasia Studio 8.1 now has green-screening–which means awesome sketch videos just got easier!
• Visual Book Review: Customer CEO: How to Profit from the Power of Your Customers (Chuck Wall)
• Here’s the recording from “How to use Evernote to improve your visual thinking”
• Getting to know people who read this blog–hooray for hangout experiment #1!
• How hacking my wants helped me experiment with early retirement

Focus areas and time review

I’m experimenting with a different way of doing my weekly reviews. I want to see if this makes it easier to identify next actions for each area of focus. I’m trying to find a good balance between adding things that I’ll just end up postponing, and losing sight of stuff I want to make progress on. If I make sure there are built-in entries for the things I care about, that’s a good reminder. Then I might tweak my Org task management and agenda to make it easier to review tasks for personal projects.

• Business (50.9h – 30%)
  • Earn (19.8h – 39% of Business)
    • [X] Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [X] Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [X] Help test/fix HTTPS
    • [ ] Sketchnote School4Civics
    • [ ] Consulting – E1 – Help with test
    • [ ] Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Discuss Nov 29 event
  • Build (21.4h – 42% of Business)
    • Quantified Awesome (10.9h)
      • (X) Write more Cucumber tests
      • ( ) Get to 40% code coverage
    • Drawing (4.6h)
      • [X] Sketchnote a book
      • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • (X) Set up URL shorteners (liv.gd and sach.ac)
    • (X) Follow up regarding sach.ac
    • (X) Experimented with Camtasia Studio 8.1 – Remove a Color
    • (X) Revise plans for reinvesting in business
    • [X] Sort out receipt for cheques
    • [ ] Back up Adphoto and my site
    • [ ] Activate ING Direct account
    • [ ] Identify tools, services, and capabilities to invest in
    • [ ] Figure out how to pay myself
    • [ ] Look into Brock Health or similar PHSPs
  • Connect (9.6h – 19% of Business)
    • Quantified Self Toronto
      • [X] Analyze survey stats and write a blog post
      • [ ] Meet Shelley Archibald – discuss Quantified Self
    • Experiment with hangouts and webinars
      • [X] Prepare presentation on Evernote and visual thinking for Wed
      • [X] Test everything to demo during Evernote presentation
      • [X] Give presentation on Evernote and visual thinking
      • [X] Process recording on Evernote and visual thinking
      • [X] Type in notes from chat
      • [X] Follow up with another blog post
      • [X] Hang out with blog community
      • [X] Set up next hangouts (https://sachachua.com/hangout)
    • (X) Hang out at HackLab
    • [X] Update website for next Visual Thinkers Toronto meeting and send e-mail
    • [ ] Talk to Bastien Guerry about Emacs
• Relationships (21.8h – 13%)
  • My parents’ website
    • [X] Back up Adphoto and my site
    • (X) Resize Adphoto images
    • (X) Fix mobile viewing
    • (X) Set up development server
  • [X] Hang out with Emma Logue
  • (X) Help my mom deal with compromised e-mail and viruses
  • (X) Accompany J on subway trip to drop off document
• Discretionary – Productive (6.3h – 3%)
  • (X) Practise more Japanese flashcards – add new deck
  • Writing (3.3h)
    • ( ) Experiment with a new way to do the weekly review – by topic
• Discretionary – Play (1.1h – 1%)
• Personal routines (19.6h – 11%)
• Unpaid work (7.7h – 4%)
• Sleep (60.9h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)