I like the way it neatly divides up an hour; and I like the way that I can more easily work for a ‘non-calendar’ hour on a project. I used to think ‘I’ll have a cup of tea and get going on that at 2.00 p.m.’, and then I fretted while I waited and then got distracted while I was waiting to ‘officially’ start working, then start late, etc etc. (textbook procrastinator :) ) This way, I can just kick off instantly into an hour…

And a goofy computer analogy: Two minutes is like a minimal unit of work in GTD - if you can do it in two minutes, do it. So two minutes is like a ‘bit’ of work.

So these chunks are like the next step up, a ‘byte’ of work (or maybe a ‘nybble’) and I like the idea of taking one byte at a time. The two minutes tacked on the end are like a checksum bit to keep you on track.

And then if you get on a roll, or in the flow, and omit those two minutes, it’s just like operating in 16 bit or even 32 bit ‘words’, nice to be able to do if you have the resources, but not necessary to make progress.

Oh and Minuteur makes it really fun to do. Cheers!