May was month #1, so what has happened?

• rooSwitch 1.5 shipped with some new features as well as new screencasts and a new website.
• I moved to a shared private office in downtown Boise.
• I started work on a new desktop app.

Things learned:

• Multi-tasking is evil. There’s plenty of people talking about the evils of distractions and multi-tasking. It wasn’t until this month that I made a real effort to actually turn mail, IM and other notifying distractions off for extended periouds of time. I also stopped bouncing between projects within a given day. I’m now much more conscious about what I want to accomplish for the day, and what project(s) it involves. If more than one project has to be dealt with I make sure to start on the most important and finish it before moving to the next. In the past I’ve bounced from project to project and let “emergencies” take over. Now I’m just finding an appropriate home for the “emergencies” (later) and really giving my current task all my attention.
• Routines are good. I wake up while the house is stil quiet and I start every day the same. I’ve been doing this for two months, so I know its stuck. The actual routine is personal and not important. It’s also boring. But by the time I sit down at my desk I’m fully awake and my day has started. My routine ends when I sit down to my desk and write down what I want to do for the day. Then I’m off. I’m experimenting with incorporating routines throughout my day as well. Nothing’s stuck yet, but it’s been interesting and I’m still hopefully I’ll wander into something useful.

Now for some miscellaneous jibba-jabba:

It felt good to get rooSwitch 1.5 out the door. Now close to 100% of my working time is focused on a new app, currently called Focalize.

I’m not ready to share any real details, but it’ll be an OS X app and a little sister iPhone app. If for some reason the name intrigues you enough to be interested in testing, feel free to [shoot me an email](mailto:brian@roobasoft.com?subject=Focalize me!). It’s not yet in private beta, but I hope to have it there this month.

Regarding the office space, I’m continuing to really enjoy it. Boise doesn’t have a large downtown, but it’s plenty big enough for me. I’m within walking distance to a little park and plenty of great food. However, I’m trying to avoid going out to lunch more than once a week.

I’m also trying to bike in most days. Turns out I enjoy biking to a destination a good bit more than just biking in a loop. And bonus points to the office for maintaining a nice big locker room with private showers and an awesome limited access bike room.

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