Taciturn

Post-it notes are awesome. They make organising really easy. I organise myself at work with two things - the first is an sheet of A4 paper folded into quarters for listing jobs needing attendance. The other thing is post-it notes. For physical items needing attention that I consider less that high priority, I put a sticky note on them. Mentally, I'm quite organised. I have stuff around me that needs doing, and as most things are not strictly bound by time (everyone wants their stuff fixed now, which makes sequencing a simple FIFO queue). The bit of paper is the FIFO regular priority queue. Some items are dragged out of order, either to optimise efficiency by batching items in similar locations, or just because I don't feel like doing something.

The physical, post-it noted stuff is much less FIFO and much more of a "how much I want to do it" priority queue, but at least I can immeditely recognise what needs doing.

To be honest, I know this blog is useless. I just thought it'd be interesting to draw parallels between how I organise myself, and how lists are maintained in programming. I've discovered something... something useless, but somewhat interesting.

Now I'm going to go home before my queue gets contaminated and I core dump.