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Discussion on: How Do You Achieve Deep Focus?

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Alfredo

Put some headphones with white noise on repeat or some easy to listen music, close all other browser tabs, etc... With two monitors I usually have a full screen browser window on one screen and an Item/Vim instance (in full screen too).

Do a simple task list, with priorities, don't do anything else besides on what's on that list and don't edit the tasklist until you've finished it.

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Utkarsh Talwar

Do you tackle all your tasks on the list in a random order or do you use any kind of time batching for specific tasks?

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Alfredo

I usually write them all in same the order I think about them. After writing everything down, I try to rearrange tasks giving them some priority and dependencies, so in order to achieve task #1 you have to complete task #1.1, #1.2, and so on.

I don't estimate how much time it will take a task, but I just log everything on clockify to get some stats later.

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Utkarsh Talwar

Thanks for providing clarity on this.

Just checked out Clockify. Looks good! My team and I have been using ClickUp so far and it also works well.