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Vitamin-R is a collection of tools and techniques designed to overcome the biggest productivity challenges facing today's creative professionals: managing attention and maintaining motivation. Vitamin-R complements the task capturing and organizing features of modern to-do list managers, by forcing you to concentrate fully on one task a time and keeping distractions at bay. Vitamin-R smooths the creative process by embracing the way our brain is really wired. Time Slice Your Work
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A brief demonstration of Vitamin-R in use. 
Overall I found Vitamin-R to be one of the few get-things-done applications that actually works for me—in my book, that’s a huge task accomplished. MacWorld, 3rd August 2010 The entire Vitamin-R approach distilled into a 4 minute slide show. 25th August 2010 Version 1.27 adds sound and speech notifications for timed breaks. This PDF user manual puts the product into perspective and reveals how different concepts were blended into this unique product. Questions? Suggestions? Visit our support forums or drop us a mail at support@publicspace.net Get this or any other tool on this site for free by linking from your website or blog! |
Vitamin-R breaks down large, vaguely defined tasks into a series of short "time slices" of between 10 and 30 minutes, each with specific, easily reachable and actionable objectives. During these time slices it keeps you focused on accomplishing only this one objective and provides you with mechanisms for dealing with interruptions, poor concentration, etc.
Vitamin-R concentrates on getting started which allows you to break through the resistance of procrastination and creates a positive feedback loop of small achievements that get you closer to your ultimate aims. This greatly reduces the stress caused by looming deadlines and a lack of a clear direction, thus enabling you to enjoy guilt-free breaks in which you can pursue other interests. 
Vitamin-R provides you with the "Now & Later Board", complete with FastType magic, to give you a place to quickly dump all those things that go through your head and allows to get back to the task at hand.
While Vitamin-R assists you in getting on with your work, it also keeps a customizable record of your progress that can help you detect positive, as well as negative work patterns thus allowing you find the way that suits you best.
Vitamin-R plugs into your life rather than trying to take it over. You can use it occasionally to overcome procrastination or mental blocks or re-organize your entire working life around the concepts that it embodies. It complements rather than replaces traditional to-do list managers, such as 
