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Anti-Distraction-Vana for Windows
sol2k | Feb 23 2006
Hi, fellow Windows-slaves! On the tail of this post (http://www.43folders.com/2006/02/23/against-distraction/), I put a comment asking for tools, tips and thoughts on avoiding/killing/reducing distraction on a Windows desktop. What are some tips,tools,thoughts, hacks, jokes you use to reduce your distraction when using Windows as the OS ? *Auto-hide your taskbar. Not only creates more desktop real-estate, it also hides the 3 Firefox buttons that are shown on mine right now. *Any tool out there to emulate Mac's Command+H? Would love to have something like that in Windows. There are some tools that will send windows to the tray, but I am not sure that is something anyone would like (1 more icon in the tray??? geez...) *Has anyone ever tried this thing called Deskloops (http://www.xilokit.com/deskloops/) (no affiliation) ? I tried it but it didn?t feel comfortable for me. Very cool, tho. Any other comments ? *Lifehacker.com just announced TimeSnapper a couple of days ago (http://www.lifehacker.com/software/time-tracker/download-of-the-day-timesnapper-156042.php). It takes screenshots of the desktop at regular intervals. I use it for my guilt trip at the end of the day, to make myself painfully aware of how much I was web surfing instead of actually working. Masochistic ? Perhaps? but it?s working for me. C'mon, people! Ante up ! Sol2k 7 Comments
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 One of the brightest things...Submitted by terrym on February 28, 2006 - 4:00am.
rpederse wrote:
One of the brightest things I've ever done was to turn off all the Outlook new mail message indicators. Going over to see the new message was ALWAYS more enticing than what I was supposed to be working on. That should be compulsory. And the thing with that as well, is if I click the 'no I don't want to read it just now thanks' button I feel terribly guilty that there's something there that I should be responding to, a big fat open loop that's really important that needs a response immediately. But if that were really the case, I'm sure whoever it is would ring instead, rather than e-mail. Now, if only there was a way I could silence that damned phone! » POSTED IN:
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