Attention Management


I spent the last year or so thinking a lot about managing where my attention goes. While I love reading hundreds of RSS feeds, twittering, facebooking, etc, it’s simply not practical to do it all the time.

So far, I mostly considered how to filter wheat from chaff. But it occurs to me that there is a second part to attention management - how busy am I right now, and how important is what I’m doing? I.e. if I’m playing Mafia on Facebook, sure, open the twitter pipe a bit wider - but if I’m writing code, would you please shut it down for the duration.

I wonder if there are any tools that seriously try to figure out what your attention is on, and how important it is to you….