A daily checklist, percentage done; turn on something like Leechblock, but only the recording options and not the block options and measure time spent on 'procrastinating' websites; use arbtt to gather statistics to measure interventions; calculate average longevity of items on your TODO list; ...
Not seeing any suggestions from you - did you spend 5 minutes thinking about it before asking here?
Thank you for your thoughts.
Not seeing any suggestions from you - did you spend 5 minutes thinking about it before asking here?
Yes, I've spent some time thinking and researching this question, including looking at this research paper and this survey.
Because I didn't want ideas similar to my own, I didn't initially list my own ideas for fear of priming the responses.
I recognise with hindsight that my post gives the impression that I was unwilling to help myself - I could have been clearer.
Finally, given all the discussion on anti-akrasia and procrastina...
I want to test different techniques for decreasing personal procrastination. What would be an easy way to measure procrastination so that I can do the comparison?
I would also like to hear suggestions for measuring the inverse i.e. how can I measure getting-things-done-ness.