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Multi-thinking instead of multi-tasking

Jeffrey Baumgartner of The InnovationTools weblog had a nice idea for managing the maelstrom in your head without it getting in the way of your work. Brainstorming technique - Multi-thinking - from InnovationTools

Whether you multi-task or not, you almost certainly have numerous tasks awaiting your attention at any given time. And it is inevitable that your mind occasionally turns to one task while you are working on another. A multi-tasker would be inclined to switch tasks at this point. I recommend you stick to the task at hand, but keep a notebook - or at least some paper nearby - when performing any tasks. (I recommend having a notebook with you all the time). When the mind turns from the task at hand to another task, simply note down your thoughts in the notebook. Then return to the task at hand.

Good point. Personally, for blogging purposes I wrote all my posts in a Word document and I put it on my desktop. Then I can have between 2 or 5 posts waiting to be finished, edited and published. Then when I have ideas about these future posts I add it quickly to keep my idea going, without thinking about the grammar, formulation and editing. If I didn’t have my laptop with me, I put my thoughs in my little Moleskine pocket diary and add it to my document when I come back home. After, when I publish the article, I change the name of the file and add the date of the publishing and put the document in a specific folder with the post category’s name.

Why do I use a Word document? Simple, because I only have to copy/past it to my Radio Userland software and the parsing will be done automatically in HTML; I’ll have the same editing on my weblog as the one I have in Word.

It’s how I work for by blogging writing. For now it’s do the job.

I also started a “comment blog” to keep track of my writing on other blogs. It does seem really useful to keep track of conversations and eventually I think that it will be a good source of inspiration… I hope so. There is the link to this experience blog: http://fredonsomethingcomments.blogsome.com/