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Ask Slashdot: Software To Help Stay On Task?
GiboNZ writes "Like many others, I easily get distracted when working on a computer. Say I work on a task — be it a programming job or bookkeeping or whatever — and need to quickly check something on Google. Unfortunately after a while I often find myself on Slashdot or eBay or reading emails instead of continuing with the job I was doing before. Maybe if I had a 'single-tasking desktop' it wouldn't be such an issue. I couldn't Alt-Tab to my email client with tempting 200 unread emails, Alt-Tab to browser with 10 tabs open for later, Alt-Tab to unfinished document from yesterday, Alt-Tab to ... you know what I mean. I want to be forced by some technical means to work on the problem I should work on. Will alone doesn't work — I tried. Like when mowing a lawn — there I've got nothing else to do and I keep mowing until it's finished. If I could multitask in the same way I can on a computer our little backyard would take me the whole day to do. Any ideas how to inhibit the distractions ever present on modern multi-tasking internet-connected desktops? I genuinely want to be more productive but the technology is against me."
Your subsequent unemployment will motivate you to stay on task.
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Stop it or I'll bury you alive in a box!
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Schedule more meetings.
There's an entry in there that looks something like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
Change it so it looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost loopback slashdot.org
#DeleteChrome
iOS! Finally, a use for iOS "multitasking"
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Just because the U.S. is a republic does not mean it is not a democracy. Democracy/republic are not mutually exclusive.