![]() ![]() I believe that in order to continuously achieve big goals in your life, you need a personal productivity system. JOURNLER GTD SOFTWAREacademic AcBoWriMo acwrimo adjuncthell AoIR aoir8 aoir10.0 application assumptions blog blogging blogs blogs&blogging blogs and blogging blogs_and_blogging borders boundaries cccsir coding data commentary conference costs couch awards data analysis data coding dissertation doctoralcolloquium facebook fellowship goffman google graduate school internet research ir10 ir13 journler linking links livejournal me methods milwaukee money monkey wrench notes photo present presentation privacy progress reading reflections research roundtable session social media social networking sites sociology software space&place space_and_place survey surveys symbolic interaction theory thesis twitter visual media web2.I am a firm believer in and admirer of productivity systems.A bit afraid I might currently be Reviewer Number Two. I'm definitely Reviewer Number Two but I'm also not sorry about it. Today in Intro Soc lecture prep: Cadillac commercials and ladygaga videos. ![]() This week I did a variation of SocThing's selfies activity ( /teaching/2014/…) in my large Intro Soc lecture… /i/web/status/1… 1 month ago ![]() ![]() So far… I’m not doing all that well, actually, because I keep getting distracted by data analysis.īut it’s way more words than I’d written in the previous month, so I’ll take what I can get! The goal I’ve set myself is 30000 words this month, which is four chapters of 7500 words each (I picked 7500 because that’s the word limit on a journal submission that is top priority right now). I always get frustrated because my first drafts are utter crap (my husband is right at this very minute handing me a pretend phone and saying that the kettle is calling because whenever he laments having to start writing something I tell him to just get the first draft down and fix it in editing…) but once I get the first round of thoughts out I can turn it into things that are actually coherent, not to mention realizing where the holes and things are. It’s good for me because getting started writing is always the hardest thing. And I’m doing Ac(ademic) Bo(ok) Wri(ting) Month, which is a spin on NaNoWriMo. Had lots of fun, hurt my brain in new and creative ways as always. I went to IR12 and didn’t present, which was liberating. No really, still alive NovemPosted by Sarah in AoIR, progress. Given how little I am able to work on weekends, though, I might revise that to trying to keep my moving average above 120. My current target for the Studious Network’s Academic Writing Accountability group is a score of 120/day. Note how I spent about 10 days NOT doing anything productive. JOURNLER GTD FREEI use a little app called Klok (the free lite version – it’s nagware on launch) to track my time and then at the end of the day I just drop that in to my spreadsheet and it makes pretty graphs like this: Score = (writing) + (analysis) + (reading/2) + (other/2) – (freakouts/2) The math is as follows (time measured in minutes): The Score favors time spent writing and analyzing data over less-progress-oriented tasks like reading and “other”. It’s too easy for me to putter around on little things and call it “work”, or to lose whole days to just worrying about getting things done but not actually DOING anything. The Metric JanuPosted by Sarah in personal, progress.Įven before AcBoWriMo, I was trying to use data to keep myself motivated. But I will bry to keep things updated here as well. I’ll post about it on Twitter (over there in the sidebar) more than I will here.
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