Weekly review: Visual thinking, time management – Week ending July 12, 2013
| weeklyDug 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. =)
Blog posts
- Weekly review: Week ending July 5, 2013
- Slice of life: Meowrnings
- Making the day count
- Redesigning the Visual Thinkers Toronto Show & Tell
- Quantified Time: Comparing notes
- What do I want to do right now? Understanding my algorithm for discretionary time
- Sketchnote Lessons: Drawing Emotions
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
- Quantified Awesome (16.1h)
- 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
- Earn (15.9h – 35% of Business)
- 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)
You can e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com.