GiboNZ - Slashdot User

Comment Re:There's no app for that (Score 1) 301

by GiboNZ on Sunday March 03, 2013 @07:47PM (#43064045) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Software To Help Stay On Task?

That's the funny part. After a few Alt-Tab's I suddenly land in the window I was working with in the first place. That's the "A-ha!" moment. "That's what I was doing" and am quite happy I can continue where I left it an hour ago.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Single-tasking desktop for Linux

Submitted by GiboNZ on Thursday February 28, 2013 @11:04PM

GiboNZ writes: Like many others I easily get distracted when working on a computer. Say I work on a task — be it a programming job or bookkeeping or whatever — and need to quickly check something on Google. Unfortunately after a while I often find myself on Slashdot or eBay or reading emails instead of continuing with the job I was doing before. Maybe if I had a "single-tasking desktop" it wouldn't be such an issue. I couldn't Alt-Tab to my email client with tempting 200 unread emails, Alt-Tab to browser with 10 tabs open for later, Alt-Tab to unfinished document from yesterday, Alt-Tab to ... you know what I mean. I want to be forced by some technical means to work on the problem I should work on. Will alone doesn't work, I tried. Like when mowing a lawn — there I've got nothing else to do and I keep mowing until it's finished. If I could multitask in the same way I can on a computer our little backyard would take me the whole day to do. Any ideas how to inhibit the distractions ever present on modern multi-tasking internet-connected desktops? I genuinely want to be more productive but the technology is against me.

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