{"id":2398,"date":"2009-02-03T21:11:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T03:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2009-02-03T21:11:32","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T03:11:32","slug":"productivity-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"Productivity Porn"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t used to obsess about productivity. Friends were welcome to get all wrapped up in methodologies for being more productive<\/a>; I was getting things done just fine, thanks. I had an excellent memory, and seldom forgot to do what needed to be done.<\/p>\n

Then I started getting older. I’d leave small tasks lying around, only remembering them when I re-found them or they blew up loudly in the corner.<\/p>\n

Even that wasn’t enough to push me over the edge. Sure, I signed up for Remember the Milk<\/a>, but I put tasks in it like an old man erratically handing out coins to his grandchildren. Otherwise I went on as I had before, mainly relying on memory and the kindness of others.<\/p>\n

But then came the iPhone. Oh, goodness, what a difference having a computer in your pants can make. I started using Remember the Milk — really using it, instead of dabbling in it. I found how to create saved smart searches, a crazy feature that only crazy people really need. Then I realized I also wanted to note down random web pages that I wanted to look at later, as well as snippets of blog posts and random thoughts and, oh, hell, why not sign up for Evernote<\/a> to remember all of this for me?<\/p>\n

Wait: what if I’m driving and a particularly clever thought zips its way through my brain? I can’t type and drive at the same time? But I can talk and drive, as Misty will tell you while rolling her eyes. So I signed up for reQall<\/a>, which has an iPhone app to transcribe voice to text.<\/p>\n

I haven’t yet set up 43 folders to dump stuff into, and Lifehacker<\/a> isn’t in my Google Reader subscriptions. But if I graph my use of productivity tools as a function of time, I should reach the productivity singularity in early 2010, at which point I will be so productive that I have no time to do anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I didn’t used to obsess about productivity. Friends were welcome to get all wrapped up in methodologies for being more productive; I was getting things done just fine, thanks. I had an excellent memory, and seldom forgot to do what needed to be done. Then I started getting older. I’d leave small tasks lying around, … Continue reading Productivity Porn<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t