User Story 3 Andy
Andy is trying to get an online Masters degree finished. He uses a formal reflection process to think deeply about his own practices and used to puzzle over why had to keep asking for extensions to his deadlines for handing in reports. He started Action Logging at the beginning of the fourth term and now has two months worth of records to reflect on. Looking at October, he concluded he had been guilty of comitting “Category Drift” which isn’t a capital offence, but does need to be addressed before it gets completely out of hand. Too often when adding an action, rather than categorise it simply as A for Action or R for Running he felt the particular event or achievement he wanted to put down in his Action Log belonged to some new category of it’s own, soon to be joined by many more over the coming days, he had pressed the all too easy ” Add a Category” button. Then the poor thing had languished on it’s own until forgotten about, joined not by more actions of the same type , but by yet more lonely new category codes.
The fact that Andy had this insight meant he could fix it though, and the overall summaries of total number of actions completed on a week by week or even day by day basis were still very helpful and on the whole positive. It was an occupation hazard of academic life to worry more about the meta-process than the real business itself, but the latest iPhone in his pocket with the ActionLogr app on his Home Page was his best weapon in the war against time.
