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Re akrasia and GTD: I've long had the idea that LW users could pair off and watch each other with screen-capture software. Whenever the other guy starts procrastinating, you stop him, and he does the same to you. Maybe randomly change the pair assignment every day or week to avoid getting too used to each other. Sounds pretty drastic, huh? I'd be up for that. (With the caveat that I'm in Russia, so my day cycle is likely out of sync with yours.)
Interesting - I don't know if it would work, but I'd like to hear about somebody who tried it.
Maybe a less invasive one would be a software that just shows a description of the current program the user is running - if he's on the web, the top-level domain, and if not, the name of the document he's reading/working on (Or more likely, the name of the application and the contents of it's title bar, anything deeper than that probably needs a lot more special coding).
This exists. I tried it for a while, but my life doesn't revolve around computer use enough for it to be especially interesting for me. For someone who spends most of their productive time at a computer, it might well help.
Why write special software? Isn't VNC enough? My work is sufficiently specialized that I can trust other LW users with seeing the code I write.
Oh, I wasn't thinking about privacy, more about screen real estate for the watcher (I have a laptop with one small screen), and having readable log files. Being able to look at the logs and say "hmm today I spent 10 minutes coding, 45 minutes on lesswrong, and 2 hours on tvtropes" would be neat. Something like that probably exists.
That would be awesome! Why don't I have that today? I didn't know until you said that that I urgently need that.
Hey! Now I do! It's here.