Comments on: Points are better than priorities

By: Pasta Boat

Pasta Boat — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:28:00 +0000

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By: Casey Carpenter

Casey Carpenter — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:25:39 +0000

I love it. Maybe I can implement this for some employees that seem to get distracted so I can see how many points they get each day/week.

Very cool idea, hopefully it will be useful in practice.

By: Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Jeff Barr’s Blog » Links for Wednesday, January 3, 2007 — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:02:16 +0000

[...] Ryan Carson: Points are Better Than Priorities – “Instead of prioritizing my to-dos for the day, I give them a point value of ten, five or two. “ [...]

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:16:16 +0000

Whatâ€™s the app youâ€™re using for the task list Ryan? I think I read before that you use one of the Omni tools?

It’s OmniOutliner – my new favorite app :)

By: greekman

greekman — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:59:20 +0000

That’s perfect idea. It makes me thinking about RPG games I was playing and how I always fantasized of getting me skilled by taking some points and experiences in the real life too and transfer the whole life to one big game. People could get much more productive by taking their daily tasks and learning like a game and letting their imagination run to enjoy this process better. There’s so much possibilities in this great idea!

By: Stuart Grimshaw

Stuart Grimshaw — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:40:56 +0000

Why not go the whole hog and assign each task a “skill” category, and translate the score to experience.

You could be a level 10 Meeting Organiser, or level 3 Call Instigator, assign more experience to the more important tasks.

Build a website around that and you have yourself quite an interesting little community, as you try and beat your colleagues up the skills tree :-)

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:40:51 +0000

We are launching a new Getting-Things-Done web application next month called Nozbe:

http://www.Nozbe.com

You might want to have a look, it goes well with Ryan’s last post about his GTD setup (mine is similar) and with this post. We aim at preparing a most GTDish app there is :-)

Again Ryan, thanks for this blog – keep these GTD-related posts coming!

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:11:59 +0000

Hey Ryan – green mushrooms are 1-ups, red just make mario grow :) Boy I wish I could grow if I ate a red mushroom :)

And maybe meet a princess….

By: Mischa

Mischa — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:05:12 +0000

1-up mushrooms in Super Mario Wolrd are green, not red ;-)

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:59:38 +0000

Nice idea! I normally scribble something on a pad in front of me, that is then lost/scribbled on top of in no time!! :o)

What’s the app you’re using for the task list Ryan? I think I read before that you use one of the Omni tools?

By: ck

ck — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:55:47 +0000

I guarantee I’m not the first geek to notice this… but Ryan, you posted the “super mushroom”… the 1-up mushroom is green: http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/brands/0011/4655/brand.gif

Good article anyway.
ck

By: sj

sj — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:52:04 +0000

My first job was a telemarketer when I was 15 (note – it’s as bad and experience on the caller’s end as it is on the recipient’s.) The only thing that kept me going (other than $10 an hour – big money back then) was the white board that had everyone’s number of sales. I worked like a dog because I wanted my name on the top of that list.

All of which is to say that a system like this would probably do wonders for me…

By: Ryan Carson

Ryan Carson — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:11:41 +0000

Have you seen Geoffrey Grosenbachâ€™s Rough Underbelly app?* Itâ€™s a web app that does this.

Yes, it’s fab :)

By: John Topley

John Topley — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:06:41 +0000

Hey Ryan,

Have you seen Geoffrey Grosenbach’s Rough Underbelly app?* It’s a web app that does this.

*http://www.roughunderbelly.com/