The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory

Re:The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limit... by neilv on Thursday July 06, 2023 @05:10AM (#36613235)

For work, I love Kanban and Gantt, depending.

For personal tasks (not work), I use a todo list that emphasizes not having the task in view if I've decided it's not a candidate to do that day. (Such as by using the Start Date feature of some tools.)

I also try to cull the candidate tasks for the next day on the night before, bumping tasks so that I won't see them and have to consider them the next morning, wasting fresh brain.

I'm good at multi-tasking, but there's noticeable costs to that, so I try not to do it unnecessarily.

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Re:The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limit... by kaetemi on Thursday July 06, 2023 @07:11AM (#36614115)

I've just got a tiny notebook currently with one task per page in big marker, for all those random one-off things to do. Just flip it to the task that needs to get done, and nothing else in sight.

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Re:The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limit... by neilv on Thursday July 06, 2023 @07:30AM (#36614265)

How do you decide which task to do next? (Do you have to look at many tasks, and load enough of each task context into your brain to decide whether to do that one?)

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Re:The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limit... by kaetemi on Friday July 07, 2023 @08:53PM (#36640211)

The one that's written in the biggest letters.

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