A Calendar about Nothing
A nice site i’ve seen lately to make sure just how on task you are (at least with regards to public Github commits) is called A Calendar about Nothing. Example Calendar from the Github team who you can see work pretty much every day.
What’s a calendar about nothing? It comes from Jerry Seinfeld and is a way to make sure you keep on task and get something you want to get done everyday done, from the article “He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.
He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. “After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain.”.”
I know I have some projects I should really be doing some work on them everyday and fall in and out of patterns of working on. I use this technique myself to keep me going on more than just code, learning Japanese and the 2,230 Kanji is a big stress test at times to make sure you spend a little time everyday on them. Once you start this and start to build up a streak you don’t want to break it.
The only bad thing about a calendar about Nothing is that it only tracks public Github commits, for me most of my work at the moment is on private git repos (though I am working to move more and more code to a framework which I plan on open sourcing.) Still regardless of if you use the website for git commits or just to keep you on task at home, this could what you need to get you into the routine of working on what you need to work on everyday.
