thespymachine comments on Thoughts on designing policies for oneself - LessWrong

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Comment author: thespymachine 01 August 2014 10:12:17PM *  0 points [-]

Thanks to this, I'm now officially using Feedly (since Google Reader is dead).

Comment author: mathnerd314 02 August 2014 12:39:32AM 1 point [-]

So more recently I've been using a big 6000-line text file, it has all of my TODO's as well as some URL's. I randomized the order a while ago and now I just go through them. I've stalled on that (actually doing things is hard, particularly when they're vague things like "post story"), so I might go back to feed reading; I experimented a bit with TinyTinyRSS but Feedly is probably a better choice.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 August 2014 03:20:03AM 1 point [-]

I've stalled on that

Re-shuffle!

Comment author: mathnerd314 04 August 2014 10:10:22PM *  1 point [-]

It's already random; replacing randomness with more randomness doesn't help except for mixing in new tasks. I went through ~50 tasks today, so it's not really that bad; just that I feel like some tasks should have more time dedicated. "Is putting animals in captivity an improvement?" is not the sort of question you want to dash off in 2 minutes. (Final answer: list of various animal rights groups).

The real problem is the list keeps growing longer; I'm starting to run into O(n^2) behavior in my text editor. It's not really designed for handling a FIFO queue. I've been staring at TaskWarrior, which might be adapted for doing the things I want.