I want to recommend Todoist (www.todoist.com) for managing todo lists. I find the web interface more fluent to work with than Remember the milk. When you add a todo item, you can write +3 for it to show up in 3 days, or "tod" if it's for today.
Regarding Pomodoro, sometimes I feel that I cannot concentrate on the work and keep checking my email and ending up browsing away. Pomodoro tells you to _really_ focus for 25 minutes. If you can, that's great, but I know a lot of people will wander off without even knowing it. So, Pomodoro is really more about actually focusing, than taking breaks. There's a good book by Staffan Nöteberg called the Pomodoro Technique Illustrated (http://www.pomodoro-book.com/). There are a bunch of programs that will help you (essentially glorified egg timers), of which a colleague and I have made one that's quite popular, called Pomodairo (it's made in Adobe Air, yeah desktop Java is dead ;). It's here if you are interested: http://code.google.com/p/pomodairo/ I used to use Mylyn when I was still using Eclipse. It's actually the most useful if you use it properly when multitasking. You have to remember to switch context when you start doing something else. If you do that, it's much easier to get back into what you were originally doing when you switch back to the original context, as all the files will show up just like you had them. Nowadays I just use IntelliJ and rely on cmd+shift+backspace for finding my way back.. :) Cheers, Viktor Nordling On Jul 26, 8:28 am, phidias51 <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that Tor mentioned that he does a lot of multitasking/context > switching and because of that Mylyn didn't work for him. However, you > can turn off context management, but you lose a lot of value when you > do that, since it makes commits easier, and makes it easier to resume > a task when you do have to context switch. I have friends that do a > lot of context switching (and have had Tor's complaint as well), but > to me it seems like a lot of mental thrashing about. I'd rather work > on one thing, if new ideas occur while I'm working, I just jot down a > local Mylyn task and carry on with what I'm doing. I also use Mylyn's > local tasks to keep track of TODOs that don't make it into a JIRA > issue or are too nascent to be a JIRA issue. > > There's a Gmail and an Exchange connector for Mylyn as well, which > makes it easy to create issues from email conversations. > > I think that most people use Mylyn just for code, but you can also add > web pages and notes to the Mylyn task. This makes it easy to bookmark > web pages with code snippets and add them to your task. > > Regards, > > Mark Fortner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
