elvn

elvn

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." Jules Renard

elvn - time management for nerds.

We are living in the world, where everything is routinely organized and ready for accounting report. We are surrounded with calendars, planners, bug-trackers, to-do lists, metrics, and every tool or methodology tries to impose its concepts of what is important. elvn is attempting to find out new answers for the common time planning questions and transform working day from mechanical execution of "very important" tasks into amazing journey where inspirational ideas become true. In addition, elvn is convenient tool that helps to manage your own time avoiding any excess.

3 time planning questions are :

1. What should I do
2. What I am going to do today
3. How should I focus on task

elvn answers

1. Everything is an idea, note your idea and if it worth of doing and could be estimated move it to task list
2. Plan to have 4-6 intentions to embody ideas, every should take not more than hour
3. Select task, have a rest first, be elvn for an hour and move to next task

Installation

npm install -g elvn

Main elvn commands

• /b(lue) - switches to task list by color
• /work - switches to task list by label
• /all - all tasks
• /done - completed tasks
• /today - planned today tasks
• @ - shows ideas list
• & - shows lists edit
• % - shows config (sync)
• $ - shows timer
• ! - shows status
• ? - search tasks/idea by text
• # - gets task/idea by position in list

examples : - ?correct - returns all tasks/ideas in list that contains 'correct' in text - #2 - returns task that has second position in list

with returned task(s) can be done:

#### Command to save/edit task
  - c(olor):text
  - :text

  - \#2=Need to update examples
  - \#2=+test - appends 'test' to task on the second position
  - \#2=-test - removes 'test' substring from task on the second position

#### Replace text
  
  - \#3=correct%fixed - will change 'correct' to 'fixed' in third task in a list

#### Move to another list
  
  - \#2b

Task commands

• #2x- delete

• #2> - run

• #2v - make completed

• #2^ - make not completed

• #2+ - make planned

• #2- - make unplanned

• #2@ - convert task to idea

• #2-4v - process command over range

• #2,3,4v - process command over group

• #*v - process command over all tasks

Idea commands

• #2x- delete

• #2y - convert idea to task and put its to yellow list

• #2-4x - process command over range

• #2,3,4x - process command over group

• #*x - process command over all ideas

Timer commands

• $> - run/resume timer
• $: - pause timer
• $x - cancel timer
• $v - complete task
• $^ - skip current stage

Sync commands

• %> - push to remote
• %< - pull from remote
• %- - revert last change

elvn rules:

• Start with task and relax for 11 mins
• Work for 15 mins
• Break for 2 mins
• Work for 15 mins
• Break for 2 mins
• Work for 15 mins

elvn completed start new.