I just got bound up in complexity. All you user interface wonks pay attention.
I am in the middle of preparing estimated taxes for Q1 2007. This requires opening multiple documents in multiple programs: Excel, Acrobat and Firefox.
But I lost my train of though digging through some windows.
Still haven’t gotten it back.
However, it did occur to me how I am managing this kind of complexity:
close everything.
Yep. Once the task requirements get too complex, where I have to switch between several programs rapidly to obtain very small progress, my attention wanders because I can’t recall where stuff is. The fastest way out of this bind is simply close all my programs. Maybe even reboot windows.
Then I’ll pick up where I left off. Or not. Sometimes, things I intend on doing just don’t get done, they get lost in the complexity. At this point, too bad.
