Silver Seams

Conquering the unfinished objects

Tue, 26 May 2020

Iā€™ve talked about my ADHD in the past (that is my most-internally-linked post right there), Since my current work has been boring-to-blog stuff like sewing masks and cleaning/rearranging the work area to provide my husband with a dedicated WFH space and me with a dedicated tutorial-photography space, managing it has been extra-fun. So Iā€™m writing about it again to keep myself accountable.

Reading other peopleā€™s sewing blogs is fun but also tends to contribute to the problem: ā€œLook at these cute little zipper box/trays!ā€

shoves the previous unfinished projects aside on the worktable, begins cutting out boxes

Thatā€™sā€¦ not productive. Luckily, reading other peopleā€™s Perl blogs is also a thing I do. ā€œLook at that little minimalist task manager!ā€

installs Taskwarrior

Much better. Now, Iā€™m a great big nerd so a Linux command-line task manager is great for me. But I can just type

<pre class="wp-block-preformatted">task add "Make a zipper tray https://sewingtimesblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/diy-open-wide-pouch-2-size.html" tag:Someday

and then close the tab on the cute little zipper box/tray and be happy about it. The ā€œGetting Things Doneā€ guy based his whole system on this principle: I donā€™t need to drop everything and do that now, because itā€™s in the to-do list.

Sure, I could put it in my bookmarks and every now and then, when I look in them for something else, every project I ever put off will hit me in the face. Thatā€™s not productive either. This way, itā€™s on the list, itā€™ll bubble up to the top Someday and I can decide to make a cute little zipper box/tray then or decide it wasnā€™t so cute after all.

The last thing I do in my shell window is ā€œclear;taskā€ which clears the screen and displays the ā€œwhatā€™s nextā€ report so itā€™s always right there.

And now Iā€™ve added ā€œPost to blogā€ as a recurring entry so letā€™s see if that helps with posting here more regularly.

Wait, Karen, whatā€™s up with the featured image? Thatā€™s no to-do list. Okay but hear me out, itā€™s on-theme: last night I posted it to Mastodon where I had been talking about not cutting out any more masks until I finished the ones I had cut, because I tend to go distracted-boyfriend-meme about new fabrics. And then I posted about my self-imposed rule not saying anything about making dragon plushies from those new fabrics. Itā€™s also a demonstration of why I need a permanent setup for the light box ā€“ thatā€™s the midnight blue looking gray on the left, and the electric blue looking French blue on the right, and the French blue isnā€™t even in the picture.

And no, I havenā€™t made recursive dragon plushies yet. Theyā€™re not even on the to-do list. Yet.

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