Re:Todon't app
by boofar on Thursday March 22, 2012 @01:03PM
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Half-relevant: Funnily, I just arrived at this passage in "Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength"[1]:
"We devoted chapter 3 to the glorious history of the to-do list, but we realize that some readers might still not feel like drawing one up. It can sound dreary and off-putting. If so, try thinking of it as a todon’t list: a catalog of things that you don’t have to worry about once you write them down. As we saw in our discussion of the Zeigarnik effect, when you try to ignore unfinished tasks, your unconscious keeps fretting about them in the same way that an ear worm keeps playing an unfinished song. You can’t banish them from your brain by procrastinating or by willing yourself to forget them.
But once you make a specific plan, your unconscious will be mollified. You need to at least plan the specific next step to take: what to do, whom to contact, how to do it (in person? by phone? by e-mail?). If you can also plan specifically when and where to do it, so much the better, but that’s not essential. As long as you’ve decided what to do and put it on the list, your unconscious can relax."
Re:Todon't app
by arscan on Thursday March 22, 2012 @12:39PM
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Funny idea, though I wouldn't sign up before I saw what it actually looked like. Maybe put up the image in your deviantart gallery (if it looks like this):
Re:Todon't app
by mistircek on Thursday March 22, 2012 @01:26PM
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Few comments:
The "todon't" list is looking like a textbox. At first I thought maybe it's for details of the "stuff we should not have done", only after submitting item i could get, "Ah this is the list itself".
Also, only clue I had about what the app suppose to do was it's name and tagline.
Re:Todon't app
by mjoxley on Thursday March 22, 2012 @04:24PM
(#3741777)
This is great fun!
Some sort of feedback loop might be useful. I don't profess to understand the 12 steps (and not to trivialise by comparison) but I guess counting the number of successful days of not doing something in a chain becomes reinforcing e.g. when has a smoker actually stopped smoking?
Or alternatively is the payoff a reward e.g. "Dont eat a donut for 6 days if then eat a donut else try again"
Re:Todon't app
by Mystitat on Thursday March 22, 2012 @04:14PM
(#3741697)
Went to the About page for context, found none. So ... this is an app to keep track of my failures? Why should I keep track of things I don't want to do?
IIRC, it's more effective to enforce a new behavior by phrasing it in the positive, like, "Stay quiet" instead of "Don't talk." Am I wrong? You should convince me on the About page.
http://todont.idered.pl/test
"We devoted chapter 3 to the glorious history of the to-do list, but we realize that some readers might still not feel like drawing one up. It can sound dreary and off-putting. If so, try thinking of it as a todon’t list: a catalog of things that you don’t have to worry about once you write them down. As we saw in our discussion of the Zeigarnik effect, when you try to ignore unfinished tasks, your unconscious keeps fretting about them in the same way that an ear worm keeps playing an unfinished song. You can’t banish them from your brain by procrastinating or by willing yourself to forget them. But once you make a specific plan, your unconscious will be mollified. You need to at least plan the specific next step to take: what to do, whom to contact, how to do it (in person? by phone? by e-mail?). If you can also plan specifically when and where to do it, so much the better, but that’s not essential. As long as you’ve decided what to do and put it on the list, your unconscious can relax."
[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Willpower-Rediscovering-Greatest-Human...
http://idered.deviantart.com/gallery/36159015#/d4t5dva
BTW, what is the "Design It & Code It" project? Just a personal thing or something done across the deviantart community?
The "todon't" list is looking like a textbox. At first I thought maybe it's for details of the "stuff we should not have done", only after submitting item i could get, "Ah this is the list itself".
Also, only clue I had about what the app suppose to do was it's name and tagline.
Some sort of feedback loop might be useful. I don't profess to understand the 12 steps (and not to trivialise by comparison) but I guess counting the number of successful days of not doing something in a chain becomes reinforcing e.g. when has a smoker actually stopped smoking?
Or alternatively is the payoff a reward e.g. "Dont eat a donut for 6 days if then eat a donut else try again"
IIRC, it's more effective to enforce a new behavior by phrasing it in the positive, like, "Stay quiet" instead of "Don't talk." Am I wrong? You should convince me on the About page.
Self vs. unread / unfinished books: http://i.imgur.com/vKxDM.jpg