![]() OmniFocus pops up to alert me that I’m supposed to get back to a DM on twitter. what was I doing again? It was something in one of these tabs. I could also see if the other one would like to do some advertising later in the year as well. That actually reminds me that there was another similar solution I’d seen last week… perhaps I should get a list of them together a right a post about the different options. I read their thoughts and open their site to check out what they offer and… ohhhh, it’s a responsive images hosted solution. Rather than email a possible I decide to review the probable opportunity. ![]() I hit compose and paste the email address in just before a contact form comes through with someone asking about sponsorship. I head to their contact page to find an email address and open up another tab with Gmail (which I’m sure is open somewhere else… but chance are i’m half way through reading an email and don’t want to lose my place). ![]() I open up the tool and have a quick look before deciding I like it. “That’ll be good for the newsletter” I think, “maybe they might like to sponsor an edition too”. I open both a start reading the performance article and half way through they talk about a product that is made specifically for working on responsive sites…. One of the links is to a new responsive website which I want to check out and feature in the examples section, and another link is to an article about performance. While I’m there I have a quick scan through my twitter timeline and inevitably find a couple of links that people have shared. Now when I get distracted via a mention on a tweet I usually read it right away. In another two tabs are two grafana dashboards that are almost finished, and across the others are Linked In, two WordPress Dashboards, a shopify developer dashboard and a client dashboard. Within those tabs is Facebook, a design forum, two unfinished you tube videos (one funny, one a tutorial about setting up grafana for front end performance). Theres 3 other chrome windows open with a similar number still open from the stuff I was doing earlier. Twitter, Adium, Skype, Hipchat, Omnifocus, and iMessage are all running in the background as well. As you glance across them you remember that the previous ad was about banking and your on track again.Īt the moment as I’m typing this (in distraction free mode with notifications muted) I know that behind this wall of peaceful white are 24 tabs open in my chrome browser. Scanning the room you only have 10-15 things that could lead you away from the bank statements. Then the next ad comes on about Cravendale milk and you temporarily lose your train of thought. “I must file those” you think to yourself. Lets say the ad is about banking and it switches your attention to the statements on the coffee table. ![]() There’s probably a few other things around the room, but the point is that your attention can only wander to a few things. In between you and the television is a coffee table with a couple of design magazines, a few bank statements and the Men’s Fitness magazine you keep buying to lose that fat yet do nothing more than flick through the pages to read the work outs… and then check out the gadgets section. There’s a bookshelf off to the right, in front of you the television is playing an ad in the middle of Quantum Leap where Sam has come back as lady (Oh’ Boy!). In modern day life there are only so many things, physical things, that can capture your attention. The forgetfulness of what the task that I’m currently on is made worse by the fact that I’m working on the computer, and even worse in a browser on the internets. It’s only 9:27 and I’ve already have 3 occasions where I thought of something that I could do, went to do it, and then struggled to recall just what I was trying to achieve.
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