Comments on: Monotasking Manifesto

By: Injera

Injera — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:21:01 +0000

Sorry, Sourkraut, the alliteration was in the title only… No Dr Smith style “buckets of bolts”, “ludicrous lumps”, “mental midgets” or “bubble-headed boobies”. Will aim to do better next time!

So far monotasking is going well – even managed to prepare a dinner party without multitasking. This heatwave is helping. I have no energy to over-extend. Once I finish this, I’m going to hit the remote and mono-task with Yes Minister and QI.

By: sourkraut

sourkraut — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:31:22 +0000

So where is the promised alliteration??
not that I could give a red rare ragged wretched round rodents rectum at its non appearance. PLEASE NO OFFENCE MEANT!

By: reality raver

reality raver — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:22:36 +0000

I try to monotask but I think I might have ADHD.
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By: teacoffeetea

teacoffeetea — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:55:19 +0000

Well, I had to read your article twice because I was having a conversation with someone on facebook and checking Twitter and researching baby-gate thingys on the Ikea site so, yes, I also share your need to try mono-tasking. I currently have eight tabs up. Too many! That’s it. I’m with you. No multi-tasking January. I like it. An excellent idea and I really think it might stop me from doing stupid and often vague things like burning the toast while I’m checking my email. I cut out daytime tv a while ago and I found that I got way more done but now I replaced that distraction with others. So here it goes. I’ll use your manifesto as my guide. Good luck!

ps. I had my first test whilst wring this comment – my phone rang, I answered it and was still typing. I stopped typing but read while I half listened to my husband talking about I dunno as I wasn’t really listening. Failed. Already. Ok. Starts…now.

By: Daniel Chan

Daniel Chan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:26:47 +0000

Good luck with the monotasking.

For me, I’ve found that social networking software is my biggest hurdle with mono-tasking. It’s the nature of facebook and twitter that you broadcast a comment and then look forward to a response. I’ve just figured that that in the time between responses that gets filled with doing other tasks. But if I’m absorbed in something else – reading, cooking, gardening, playing with the kids – I tend not to check the computer.