ABranco comments on Eluding Attention Hijacks - Less Wrong

20 Post author: ABranco 17 April 2010 03:23AM

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Comment author: ABranco 19 April 2010 12:37:57PM 3 points [-]

...which is pretty much equivalent to the writing down tip that I wrote -- only that maybe for you emails are units easier to process.

Problem is that it takes some time to send an email. Really. I mean, not if you have three-four ideas a day, but if you have (like me) some dozens, the extra seconds of writing an email, multiplied by many emails, might become a barrier. So I prefer text files, and then I process them later.

Comment author: xamdam 19 April 2010 01:46:08PM 1 point [-]

+1, agreed. I think the difference is due to tool usage. Sending subject-only email to myself from iphone, which is almost always with me, is about 15 seconds. If you write you might be tempted to elaborate. Either way, this is what you said and I missed on a quick read.