Discussion Forum > Why people abandon their task list
+JMJ+
Actually the solution, according to the article, is to make one's task management system into a "ritual", a habit that gives structure to one's life by anchoring every day to a tried and proven way of spending that day. It offers any.do because it encourages making such a ritual.
Hmm, interesting, maybe that's why I've always been attached to systems that copy DWM's dividing a task list into days, because you always either end or begin a day by closing the list.
Actually the solution, according to the article, is to make one's task management system into a "ritual", a habit that gives structure to one's life by anchoring every day to a tried and proven way of spending that day. It offers any.do because it encourages making such a ritual.
Hmm, interesting, maybe that's why I've always been attached to systems that copy DWM's dividing a task list into days, because you always either end or begin a day by closing the list.
June 4, 2013 at 3:58 |
nuntym
nuntym
Interesting. Another angle is the "architecture of choice", Many choices are made by the "System One" of Daniel Kahneman:
"Feeling is a form of thinking. Both are ways we process information, but feeling is faster. "
- http://bigthink.com/errors-we-live-by/kahnemans-mind-clarifying-biases
Would you prefer surgery with a 90% survival rate, or one with a 10% death rate? Personally I'd take the first option.
Choices always have a context, but was that context designed or by accident? It means that if you change the context of choices, people make different choices. Mark's systems can be seen as varying the contexts (architectures) of choices.
The issues are:
how many options to present at a time
how the option space is scanned
how options are grouped
what is the default option
what is the most easily processed format of the options
what to feed back after a choice
See for example http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/suzanne.shu/ML%20choice%20architecture.pdf
"Feeling is a form of thinking. Both are ways we process information, but feeling is faster. "
- http://bigthink.com/errors-we-live-by/kahnemans-mind-clarifying-biases
Would you prefer surgery with a 90% survival rate, or one with a 10% death rate? Personally I'd take the first option.
Choices always have a context, but was that context designed or by accident? It means that if you change the context of choices, people make different choices. Mark's systems can be seen as varying the contexts (architectures) of choices.
The issues are:
how many options to present at a time
how the option space is scanned
how options are grouped
what is the default option
what is the most easily processed format of the options
what to feed back after a choice
See for example http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/suzanne.shu/ML%20choice%20architecture.pdf
November 1, 2015 at 11:42 |
michael
michael
Nuntym,
Skimming fast, I misread "tired and proven". Sometimes feels that way...
Skimming fast, I misread "tired and proven". Sometimes feels that way...
November 2, 2015 at 9:50 |
Will
Will
http://www.fastcompany.com/3010346/work-smart/when-do-apps-become-rituals#2