Reading a Book on Task Management

• I want to read something that people I trust to some extent have evaluated.
• Even if it’s not helpful, the impact, the upside, could be significant if it is, according to [blu3mo].
• Task Management:
  • Do It Tomorrow
• Focus:
  • Introduction to Pomodoro Technique
  • Is focusing a good thing?
• Thinking:
  • Start with the Issue

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• It’s difficult to find good books among the seemingly shallow self-help books when browsing randomly.
• I want to roughly understand things that seem to have overcome trials of time to some extent.
  • I want to incorporate fragments while standing on the shoulders of giants and come up with methods that suit me.

(chatgpt)

• In the realm of task and progress management, there are many renowned classics and techniques available. Here are some representative books and methods:

• “Getting Things Done” (GTD) - David Allen

• This book, considered a classic in task management, proposes a simple method to organize tasks and efficiently accomplish them. It elaborates on understanding tasks, prioritizing them, and executing them with specific steps.

• “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” - Stephen R. Covey

• Regarded as a self-help classic, this book offers various skills related to task management like time management and prioritization. It focuses on self-management, allowing one to improve task management through self-reform.

• “The Pomodoro Technique” - Francesco Cirillo

• This book introduces the simple time management technique known as the Pomodoro Technique. It explains how to maintain focus and efficiently complete tasks by working for 25 minutes and taking a 5-minute break in cycles.

  • I might try reading the original text of this as well.

• “Eat That Frog!” - Brian Tracy

• Focusing on prioritizing tasks, this book suggests efficiently completing tasks by starting with the most important one. It explains classifying tasks based on importance and urgency and approaching them systematically.

• “The One Thing” - Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

• This book proposes achieving effective results by focusing on the most important task in task management. It elaborates on setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals and concentrating on the most crucial task for each.

• By referencing these books and methods, try to find a task management approach that suits you. Since the optimal method varies from person to person, experimenting with several methods can help you find the most suitable one for yourself.