Re:Ask HN: Picking up where you left off strategies?
by Archipelagia on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:25PM
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What's the timescale you're talking about? It's completely different to pick up a project after 3 hours VS 3 months.
On shorter timescales, I think it makes most sense to just... not break off. Obviously you can't always control that, but I've found it's better to schedule several hours reserved for deep work, rather than try to fit it here and there.
For anything longer, basically it's documentation. One approach that works well for me, is creating a new Notion page for each project, and keeping short status + next steps at the top, so whenever I come back to it I can easily see where I've been.
On shorter timescales, I think it makes most sense to just... not break off. Obviously you can't always control that, but I've found it's better to schedule several hours reserved for deep work, rather than try to fit it here and there.
For anything longer, basically it's documentation. One approach that works well for me, is creating a new Notion page for each project, and keeping short status + next steps at the top, so whenever I come back to it I can easily see where I've been.