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Re:Ask HN: How do you maintain productivity? by gls2ro on Monday February 01, 2021 @12:15PM (#25990631)
I think in the long run, maintaining a productivity pace is more about habits and space and less about specific tricks.

For me, I do almost the same things every day: waking at the same hour most of the time (around 06:00 or 06:30), drinking a cup of coffee while planning the day.

I also do my work mostly in the same space in the house, at my desk: when I sit in the chair, I immediately start working. It helps a lot to have an excellent and curated todo list, action-oriented so that I can start working directly without too much time to think about other things.

Some other small things I do:

1. I use one account on my Mac for work and another one for personal/leisure.

2. I mostly use the computer for work. I don't play games on it, and I almost don't use social media on the computer (for this and for other things like reading books or posts, I mostly use an iPad).

3. I use a Pomodoro app to start working. I just open it when I sit on the chair and add the first task I want to focus on. But after 1/2 pomodoros, I drift off it and continue focusing.

4. It also helps me put on my headphones even if sometimes I don't listen to the music. But I think this is a habit of focusing from when I was working years ago in an open-space or in coffee shops.

5. I use multiple keyboards some days: I have three external keyboards on my desk, and when I feel I am losing focus and I need to maintain it, I change the keyboard. It gives me a similar feeling like using a good pen to draw something or to write a good text on a piece of paper and just want to continue using it :)

Re:Ask HN: How do you maintain productivity? by revendell_elf on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:30AM (#25997725)
Ditto for headphones! Helps me focus even without music.
Re:Ask HN: How do you maintain productivity? by rory_isAdonk on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:31PM (#25991688)
I love the fifth answer, a great excuse for me to buy a mechanical keyboard!!