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How to be a super-effective remote developer?

๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ on January 23, 2020

Hello coding people, As you might know, I always write articles about coding, Programming, Freelancing, and Web. In this article, I am goi...
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Practicing Developer • Edited

All of this!

But most of all, setting predictable office hours.

They don't need to cover 100% of your working time, but they should set a reasonable default daily commitment. Having a clear schedule where you know you are going to show up and try to move things along, as well as a clear stopping point where if you feel like you want to wrap up for the day you can without any sort of guilt is super helpful.

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Yes brother I am agree with your thoughts ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ you have real time experience

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Raphael Castro

Could you recommend some tools to help organize and keep track work? I'm going to be a remote web developer this year, some tips will help alot!!

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ • Edited

Hey raphael first of all congratulations ๐Ÿ‘ for remote journeyโœŒ๏ธ and the tool is used in our organisation is firstbase for remote work or tasks. But in many cases who are freelancers i recommend them a simple to list app no to much complexity simple, and if you want something more powerful with extra features there huge variety of tools on internet ๐Ÿคฏ like monday.com etc
Are you freelancer or working in organization ๐Ÿ™„

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Raphael Castro

I'm working on a organization, the second one to do a remote job in there. So, maybe I am starting a new convention, must be to good for them and so, maybe they think better and allow more people work remotely. That's why I'm asking for tools that help me in this task.

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

I suggest you use a todo app for now โ˜๏ธ that's it

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Mohamed ABDELLANI

Hi

I'll use the idea of checking the email only in the morning. I notice that I check the email more frequently when I work on a boring task.

Thanks for sharing :)

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

You are moving on right path ๐Ÿ‘ฃ brother one day this small habits will make big changes in your success ๐Ÿ’“โœŒ๏ธโ˜๏ธ

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Aprendiendohtml

I will take all these tips, I am starting in this wonderful world of web development learning, and motivating myself, so I appreciate this post and from tomorrow I will launch it

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Cool, I love to see your progress in your coding journey :)

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GlyphCat

Well said. A few of the techniques actually resonate with me, the rest, well, I never thought of them but they sure seem convincing.

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๐Ÿšฉ Atul Prajapati ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ

Yes brother, I have just try to clear mind set of remote developer. Because all this points i use in my day to remote lifeโœŒ๏ธ๐Ÿ™