I wasn't above squeezing an occasional round of Doom in between study sessions in university, and am certainly not shy about catching some Pokemon if any are lurking in my office (that's a no).

Occasionally, a web app comes along that is so pointlessly stupid that it somehow becomes essential. Omnomnomify It is one such app. It fills websites with photos and animated GIFs of Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. And that's it.

We've all been there: You decide you're going to take a quick work break to visit your favourite site, and before you know it, you're 10-minute break has grown to 30. MinutesPlease can help.

Sticking to to-do lists with specific next actions can help you get things done, but we can all get lost along the way, whether in the wide-open playground of a browser or some other time sink. Productivity blogger Andre Kibbe suggests fighting a procrastination jones with a little self-awareness and a "Crutch Activities" checklist kept close at hand.Instead of cursing yourself each time you find that you've spent 90 minutes in your inbox when you meant to check email for 10 minutes, add "Checking email" to your Crutch Activities checklist. Review and update the checklist regularly, and develop protocols, like batching, for controlling these impulses.

The New York Times' Shifting Careers blog offers up five time management tricks, including Inbox Zero and unnecessary meetings, and strikes upon a truth of effective scheduling: Knowing your time-wasting weaknesses and laying down a firm policy against them.
Meeting people for lunch always derails me, yet for a while, I regularly met people for lunch. Then I got smart and instituted a fairly strong no lunch policy. Friends and colleagues teased me at first when I announced this. But they soon got used to my new approach, warming up to the idea of afternoon coffees ... Observe your schedule and notice the patterns you follow on your productive days. Then build a schedule around those patterns.What kinds of meetings, activities or projects destroy your productivity (other than games, obviously), and how do you avoid them? Tell your stoic story in the comments.
5 Time-Management Tricks