[rediguana]

Nice post.

I'd love to see a simple weekly calendar in OF, whereby I could actually plan out a week and select either context or project views. At the beginning of each day I could plan out which projects and/or contexts I want to operate at a certain time of the day, and OF would notify (by Growl) that it is time to move on. E.g. this might be a 2 hour window for 'project: admin' then a 1 hour slot for 'context: email' etc. For a five minutes either side of a change, it might present a split screen of the previous context (to close of the previous actions and review) as well as a view of the upcoming context with the next few actions to help get you think about the next switch.

I don't think iCal hacks are the bext way to do this, and would love to see a tool for managing timeslots links to projects/contexts directly in OF.

Please? :)

[starkos]

I've just been thinking through my own process on contexts and routine myself lately; I think your post is right on target. Something I found that helped me was to set up an afternoon "scaffold" (like a checklist with durations attached) to make a routine of hitting all my areas during the day, like @life, @organizing...well, too long for a post but I wrote about it here if anyone is interested.

Also, found the Pomodoro Technique (25 minutes on, 5 minutes off) very helpful for structuring my day without having to get formal or rigid like assigning blocks in iCal. Again, I blabbed about that over here.

Thanks for starting this discussion. I am interested in hearing what other people do to turn this into a habit.