Command line utility facilitating the Ivy Lee time management method
Ivy Ledbetter Lee was a publicity expert and consultant in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is credited with the development of what's become know as the Ivy Lee time management method.
The Ivy Lee method can be summarized as follows:
- Before leaving work each day, write the 6 most important things you must do tomorrow.
- Evaluate and sort them based on their absolute priority.
- Arriving at work each day, begin the first item on the list and do not move on to the next item until the previous one is completed.
- As the workday expires, move any unfinished items to a new list and repeat this procedure.
The power of the method is that it requires the user to prioritize tasks, properly focus on one task at a time, and is so simple that it isn't a distraction in itself.
- ivy project info:
ivy about - marking items done:
ivy check <num>, where <num> is an item's position in the list - deleting an item:
ivy erase <num>, where <num> is an item's position in the list - this dialog:
ivy help - viewing the list:
ivy list - deleting all items:
ivy new - rewriting items:
ivy rewrite <num> "new item description", where <num> is an item's position in the list. - reordering items:
ivy put <num> <num2>, where <num> is the position of the item to be moved and is the position to move it to - marking items todo:
ivy uncheck <num>, where <num> is an item's position in the list - adding new items:
ivy write "text description of work item", with quoted text