Ask HN: What's your way to keep being productive day by day?

Re:Ask HN: What's your way to keep being productive day by day? by jborichevskiy on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @09:53AM (#22298904)

This week I've had some success using something like the Pomodoro technique. Though I've tried it a few times before I never quite got it to stick. Some thoughts / changes I made:

- Doubled the length of time to somewhere between 45-80 minutes, loosely based on the perceived complexity of the task

- Didn't time my breaks. This sounds counter-intuitive but they never lasted more than 5-10 minutes for me anyway, but having an open-ended "breathing-session" helped psychologically

- No notifications during this period, at all. Phone and laptop on DnD, no messaging apps running - I really mean all notifications.

- Having the "guarantee" that I'll see missed notifications during my break, with some sane max delay (1-2 hours) instead of an indefinite amount of time helped my brain unplug considerably

- Working with no notifications is incredible

- You have to believe you won't be interrupted to do deep work.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your way to keep being productive day by day? by jborichevskiy on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @12:29PM (#22300363)

Also, if it's interesting; a writeup of all my habits which I think keep me decently productive

https://jborichevskiy.com/posts/healthy-living/

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