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Discussion on: How do you stay focused on one project at a time?

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Dviejo

What it works for me is write down the plan, without a plan, it's really difficult to finish anything. I had this experience building docxmerge and it took me 1 month and a half. I had a hard time because I was focused only on one project and university, and what happened to me is that I overthought a lot, you got to be very practical for side projects.

Now I'm dividing my time in N projects, I say, I'm going to do whatever I can about X feature for the Y project in N hours, and that keeps me active and motivated through the day.

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Rupesh Krishna Jha

Hi @Dviejo, I follow the same. I also looked at your project docxmerge it's great, is its code open source ??

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Dviejo

Hi, it's not open source but it's totally free, if you have doubts I can help you, I'm using it for personal projects, so it's a problem I had turned into a service.