[curt.clifton]

When I'm fantastically behind and need to force myself to put my nose down and get stuff done quickly, I use a variant of what Bill suggests. Rather than TextEdit, I use OmniOutliner. I have an OO document named On Fire, set up with white text on a bright red background. I don't always use it, but when I need to crunch through some things quickly without distraction it's a lifesaver. I copy the items over, minimize the OF window, park the bright red window in the corner of my screen, and get busy.

Most of the time I live out of OF. I feel like I have a finely tuned set of perspectives now, so I have very little temptation to tinker anymore. My main motivation for using my On Fire document is to avoid my procrastination habit,. That habit lead me to do tasks other than those that should be demanding my attention (or to, um, post on the OF forums).

Cheers,

Curt