Rainer König is back, after 15 months, with news of some changes in his life and his plans for his video series. In the latest video, König explains that he’ll be changing jobs soon and is also considering starting his own business consulting on productivity.
One of his problems, he says, is that it’s easy for your Org mode TODO list to become so large that it’s overwhelming. König says that there’s a couple of ways of dealing with that. One way is to become more disciplined about what you add to the list and to realize that you can’t “do it all.” The other thing you can do is allow yourself to say that you don’t feel like working on some task today and put it off for later.
To assist with that second coping mechanism, König has been thinking about writing an addition for Org that he calls “Procrastinate Mode.” The basic idea is that you can mark items on your TODO list to be put off for a while by having them moved into the future. His idea is a little richer than that so you should watch the video for the details. He’s soliciting advice and feedback on his Procrastinate Mode idea so if you have some wisdom to depart, you can leave it in a comment to the video.
I’m glad to have König back and I hope he produces more of his excellent videos.