Entries Tagged as 'study'

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Anti-Procrastination tool is a product of my procrastination

Note: if the picture above looks badly resized, and jagged, this post is going to be irrelevant to you anyway since you don’t use firefox
Do you find yourself impulsively checking certain websites when you should be working? I do. In fact its become so automatic for me that I barely notice I’m [...]

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Procrastination Dash

Just read an interesting method of avoiding procrastination, or rather motivating yourself to work on certain tasks. By doing tiny amounts of tasks you realise how easy the task is and thus how easily you can complete it. Not sure what you might do if the task isn’t easy however.
Sounds like an interesting idea, I’ll [...]

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Version your Essays – Part I

Subversion is almost a necessity for many programmers. However it is rarely thought of as a tool for “versioning” essays, study, letters, documents etc.
What is Subversion?
Subversion (or SVN) was designed to be a successor of CVS, another “version control” system. Basically what they do is keep track of every version of a file in a [...]

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Discover Your Learning Style

Discover your learning style by taking a short quiz. The quiz told me that I was a ‘visual learner’ which probably explains why the mindmap concept appeals to me.

Tuesday, September 12th, 2006

Mind and Subject Mapping with Freemind

I have recently discovered a tool called Freemind which allows anyone to map out anything. I am currently experimenting with using it for study.
Basically you can create a tree of words, icons, and images, which you can then expand on in any direction you like.
By creating a map for each subject, I can outline all [...]