Another interesting thing is how workouts get organized. There’s usually a balance between too little change, which is doing the same exercises for long periods of time, and too much change.

Like I mentioned, my iPod touch has a timer, but you have to program it each time. Besides, I’m the type of OCD person that likes to see the album artwork while listening to her music 😉

So I set out to search for a timer for my Mac… and I stumbled upon 発表タイマー at the Apple Japan website.
I don’t entirely understand, but you can set up to five timers at a time.
When you Save Settings and Start, all timers start at the same time.

Figured it might be useful to some of you guys, so here’s the dmg file link.: www.tuat.ac.jp/CenterStaff/Sakura/software/tuatimer/TUATimer-Release1-1.dmg
Mac OS X only.

I’m a middle school student, just finished first year. Of course, suddenly I found myself with tons more homework and projects 😉 (that, and I switched to a private school.) A lot of times I was waking up at 4AM just to finish homework that I had procrastinated on badly.

My solution? Timeboxing sheets!
I would plan ahead and, say, write “代数学の宿題–5分 // 休み–2分 // 分学–10分” and so on and so forth. I would set my iPod timer and work on limited periods of time, knowing that I probably wouldn’t finish within them so I would add more. I became more focused all the time since I was switching activities constantly… and homework actually became a bit fun since it was a bit of a “beat-the-clock” game now.

Now, I’m bad, but I really haven’t been very good about using the SRS and reps and anything D:
My goal for today is to start RTK (for the third time) and really use the SRS more to help and all.
And I’ll be sure to set my timeboxes!

Timeboxing is a great strategy, thank you very much (:

I actually rarely get past 5, and definitely not 10, before I forget to reset the timer and just work and work a whole bunch on the thing that I originally needed to use timeboxing just to get started. If I stop working on it, and need to get going, I just start at 1 minute again.

The other thing I’ve been doing, which isn’t exactly related, was to start blocking out times that I would like to get things done in. This give me a time when I “should” start working on something. Of course, I rarely want to start working on it, thinking of other things to do instead. But, I just start with a 1 minute timer, and just like that, I’m moving on the project that I need to be.

Nice series of articles on timeboxing, Khatz. ありがとうございます！