Education for Well-being Education as if people and the planet mattered

I've been wrestling with this too, especially in attempts to use the summer to research and write some book chapters. Problem is, most of my books are eBooks or PDFs, so I need a machine to read them, and I'm writing on the machine as well.

But I can spend hours not exactly off-task, but tangential to it, getting distracted, as you say: checking email, Google Reader mostly.

So my fix has been to install a menu bar countdown timer, set it for two hours, and if I get distracted, pause it until I get back on task. By the end of the day I have to finish that two hours of my primary work.

It helps on better days. On other days, life can get in the way.

I like your idea of a lock, and the links remover is great to know about. Thanks for that.

Be well.

Hi Clay: Yeah, "tangential" is a good way to put it. It's not always wasted time and it can be productive. It's amazing how many interesting things I've stumbled upon during this time. Serendipity is important, I think, when trying to find material that's "out there", and therefore interesting.
I like your approach to tracking your on task behavior. Just having that kind of info. can be extremely useful. I know it works wonders helping people lower their energy consumption when they can see how much they are using.
Cheers