[chrislomax]

This is the first news story I have bookmarked, ever. Mainly because I got distracted and started reading Mashable.

Jokes aside, I thought I had a form of ADHD with how much distractions distracted me. It's quite comforting to know other people operate this way.

I have recently, as kind of a new years resolution, aimed to be more productive. I have found myself managing my project management list more efficiently and using my "priority" status on my tasks. When I get in, in the morning, I just work top down on my priority list.

My main issue was down to not knowing fully what my next task was so I would spend time finding the task that needs sorting. I have found that the extra 15 mins a day I spend updating my task list has saved hours per week.

This has also helped when you get to the end of projects and you get the small tasks that can take hours to sort when there is no clear defined list.

I'm a task completion junkie, I feel good when I mark a task 100% and the changes I have made so far this year have fuelled my addiction.

[tathagatadg]

Hehe, wish I read your comment before posting mine. But I tried this path (after seeing Randy Pausch's talk on time management) and soon discovered it was hurting my brain to decide how should I assign the correct priority value to a task. How do I decide if this homework should be assigned 4 or 5 and the other 6 - Should I try to just make it a function of time due and difficulty(?) or Should I write a naive bayes classifier that'll look into the words and assign the for me (obviously based on some training from my daily input). Then I got started hacking scripts to manage it, realized I wanted to access them through my phone so that I can update it from anywhere.. ok since this is just text based, I'll keep ssh open in my router (umm, yeah its a security issues) ... but I also need to integrate it up with google calendar and task list ...

EPIC fail. This year only laundry lists in phone.

[espeed]

> I thought I had a form of ADHD with how much distractions distracted me. It's quite comforting to know other people operate this way.

It's not just that "other people operate this way" -- this is in part a side-effect of the increasingly powerful behavior techniques that are conditioning people to behave this way (see Stanford's "Behavior Design" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3454469).