So What?
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING.
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“Attention is like energy in that without it no work can be done, and in doing work it is dissipated. We create ourselves by how we invest this energy” Flow – Mihaly Csikszentmihaly |
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“Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management.” NY Times March 28, 2019 – Adam Grant |
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“… for the first time, the pre-ponderance of choice has overwhelmed our ability to manage it.” Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less – Greg McKeown |
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“Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even a year.” Getting Things Done: The art of stress free productivity – David Allen |
The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive.”
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World — Cal Newport
What If?
THE VISION: SELF-DEFENSE FOR YOUR ATTENTION.
VISUALIZE ALL YOUR WORKSTREAMS
Boards keep your different contexts (workstreams) clearly organized, your way.
See at a glance how many items are in each board, and more importantly, how many items you have flagged as things to focus on.
Main Screen: Boards / Workstreams.
Collect Inputs. Distraction free mode.
MASTER INTERRUPTIONS
Use the distraction-free collection mode to master interruptions without missing a beat. Deflect intrusions on your attention by quickly grabbing inputs and ideas coming at you until you are ready to process them later.
Capture text from applications on your desktop with a simple drag and drop!
FIND THE SIGNAL IN THE NOISE
Later, when you are ready, deliberately extract meaningful and effective actions from the inputs you collected.
When you concentrate on each input like this, it is easy to see that sometimes one input requires more than one action!
Process Inputs and create cards.
Multiple views.
EFFORTLESS REVIEWS
Carry out individual workstream reviews or see the big picture. Easily keep your actions fresh and relevant.
Flag the key items that will require your attention soon.
THE MAGICAL ‘FOCUS’ BOARD
The special ‘Focus’ board automatically collates and surfaces all the key actions you flagged across all your workstreams.
This is the place to refer to when you plan/carry out your week or day of work. And since the demands for your attention are continually changing, here you can make the hard trade-offs with confidence. See and understand what you are saying ‘no’ to.
Focus Board.
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I am excited to be creating unique tools to defend and grow two prized resources: attention and deep work.
Because it is okay to be busy; it is okay to have a demanding job…
… it is not okay to give up our peace, surrender and succumb to the stress from attention shifts and priority changes.
We can and must manage our own focus and attention. This is part of the job. Nobody else will do it for us.
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