The Procrastination Flowchart


01.31.10 Posted in Projects by

HI REDDIT!

It’s been almost two and a half years since I created the first version of this. It was passed around quite a bit and I had dozens of requests for a higher quality version. You asked and I am delivering… two and a half years later. Updated a bit for 2010.

(And yes, I made this while at work)

(click to enlarge)

If you really want to get stuck in the chart, head over to my current project, (Don’t) Talk to Strangers. It’s a collection of thousands of anonymous journal entries collected from strangers. After all, you’re clearly not very busy right now.



40 Responses to “The Procrastination Flowchart”

  1. Mauro says:

    Congrats for getting to Digg frontpage, it’s well deserved. I make a geek webcomic, so send me an email if you want to do some stuff together.

  2. Wade says:

    Wow….. Have you been following me for the past 16 years? O_O;

  3. meneame.net says:

    Trabajo versus Meneame (por ejemplo) [Inglés]…

    Si estás trabajando o deberías, este gráfico te ayudará a situarte. Por cierto, la procrastinación (del latín: pro, adelante, y crastinus, referente al futuro) es la acción de postergar actividades o situaciones que uno debe atender, por otras situaci…

  4. jimdittmer says:

    Fantastic bit! Definitely getting passed around!

  5. [...] It’s Friday afternoon.  Everyone’s starting to slow down for the weekend.  Who wants to start a project, have it sit for two days, then have to remember where you are Monday morning?  Not me, that’s for sure.  That’s why it’s time to consult the procrastination flow chart! [...]

  6. El gráfico de la procastinación…

    Encontrado en meneame. Bastante gráfico….

  7. [...] to that simple chart. If you’re having trouble getting your project rolling, check out the Procrastination Flow Chart. Graphs can also be useful. Peruse the user-submitted graphs at GraphJam.com for useful analyses [...]

  8. spleeness says:

    This is fantastic! I can’t imagine how much time it took to put together but is definitely one of the gems of the internet.

  9. [...] to home! Only a small portion is pictured here; you can see the entire chart at Project Sidewalk. Link -via Geek Like [...]

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  12. i publish a newspaper during the Highway Africa Conference, (South Africa). See highwayafrica.com

    its an entire conference dedicated to Social Media, and so i would love to use this in our little conference newspaper. where can i get appropriate permissions from?

    The paper is driven by students within the department of Journalism at Rhodes University (www.ru.ac.za) and so i can’t offer any money, but definitely recognition for a funny, yet insightful piece of work.

    please contact me at shalen.gajadhar@gmail.com

    thanks all

  13. R J Keefe says:

    I remember when life was like this. No Internet then — just potato chips and television!

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  16. Rouge's Blog says:

    The Procrastination Flowchart…

    The Procrastination Flowchart
    ……

  17. Jeff says:

    I love the chart, but I did find an error in it.
    At the bottom, “Can you justify it anyways?” doesn’t have a “no” option.
    Just an FYI.
    Have a perfectly imperfect day!

  18. Rissa says:

    chart needs more stumbleupon

  19. [...] I’ve just found a diagram that awesomely simplify my winter working days life to an 1024×768px [...]

  20. [...] Here is a helpful flow chart showing you how to procrastinate – I am currently hungry so might finish this post later once I have broken out of the procratinating loop! click on it to make bigger! or go look at the full site loads of other stuff on there too projectsidewalk [...]

  21. [...] ma non solo, rischia di essere un problema serio. Qualcuno tempo fa ha realizzato anche uno schema della procrastinazione quasi fosse una soluzione: non rimandare a domani, procrastina da [...]

  22. [...] To get the full scale version of the internet flow chart click here. [...]

  23. speps says:

    I want to put it on a poster for my school, is it possible to obtain a vector version of this so I can print it in high quality? Thanks.

  24. iduelol says:

    Hahaha I love this.

  25. Sheresa says:

    This is totally going on my wall at work…I’ll print it out tomorrow.

  26. Lily says:

    This is fabulous. I’m posting it on FB! Thanks for the laughs!

  27. C says:

    Any chance of keeping a tiny link somewhere to the original flowchart? ;-)

  28. Debby Kurti says:

    Any chance there is a printable version of this? I’d love to share it with my students!

  29. Lynn says:

    LOVE THIS!

  30. Dave says:

    Are you entirely sure about “Any way to get out of it?” — If the answer is “Yes”, then you’d go to the loop, right?

    PS: You’ll be happy to know that I’m procrastinating by commenting on your blog entry, rather than doing my taxes. Rock on, procrastidude.

  31. Linda says:

    I LOVE this! I am posting it on a certain professor’s office door. Thanks for making my day!

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