These easy-to-follow tips will improve your output dramatically.
1. Remove Notifications 🔔
Check your phone after a couple of hours.
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For me personally, I've found that environment changes everything. Just changing from weekend clothes to what I normally wear at work can completely change my mindset from watch youtube to I should probably write some code. This is also one of the reasons why I prefer working in an office than remote from home.
Applying this to the digital world, I do most of my "lazy" hobbies in the browser and most of the creative/productive stuff in the terminal. Tools like vim or task warrior are a huge help with this. I even have a separate browser (luakit) for when I need to open a website in my terminal context.
How much this can apply to others, I don't know, but for me, the change of UI and having my hands on the keyboard instead of the mouse most of the time helps me switch context between productive and unproductive activities.
Great article! Sums up a lot of advises that are actually pretty easy to implement and will help being and staying productive. Bookmarked it right away to save it for later... oh, wait. What?
Hahaha!
This post has more bookmarks than other reactions 😆
haha ! Hopefully these people will get to point 16!
I should add a clickbait like "don't bookmark this post before reading 16" :)
A suggestion for those who can get inbox build-up/hoarding like me:
At a suitable interval such as the start of the month, just delete everything older than a certain date. Obviously this isn't okay for everyone to do, but for me at least, if something is older than a couple of weeks and no one has screamed, there's a good chance it no longer matters or isn't high enough priority to be worth the build up. If it is important and when it becomes a priority, I'm sure people will let you know with more than an email.
This may also be part of my secret plan to encourage people to contact me via a more conversational, transparent means (slack, teams) or an actual work ticket on the kanban. Email is often a terrible way of communicating I find - should be limited to one-to-many announcements or medium sized chunks of information that may be hard to represent in a chat client. Curious what others think.
Great tip
I’d change delete to archive
Ah yes, I should've been clearer. The way I have it set in my email program (because my work uses outlook) is that only unread messages appear in my main inbox, and I have to explicitly mark them as read - so a little like archiving in modern web email clients. Except it eliminates this idea that the read state matters if you haven't dealt with it and it's still kicking around your inbox.
If space is a problem you can always delete big attachments before you start deleting emails.
We are in 2020. If space is a problem get another provider :)
I used to send mails in the early 90s and then space WAS indeed a problem on local servers with 10 MB HD. Not anymore!
Haha, I'll make sure to forward your comment to our IT department ;).
"Don't automate infrequent things."
I still like to automate even infrequent things for a few reasons:
Hi Maxi,
Bravo! Love the lists. I feel these are all things we intuitively know but don't enact or we tend to forget their importance.
Myself, I have not found a good software tool for task management. So, I tend to revert to paper calendars. Something about using my hand & arm links it more tightly to my brain. ;))
LOVE this list - I would bookmark it but I read #16.
This may sound dumb but what do you mean by "gold plating your articles"? I read that to mean "don't wait to publish" but I wanted to clarification first.
I went to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_plating... - but this makes "publish daily" task pretty much take your entire day.
Thanks
Thank you very much for that great and usefull article!
this is awesome.
These are actually great tips. Thanks for sharing 😃
A very practical piece! Many thanks for sharing.
Totally agree on "Don't save for later". I prefer to write a short note with what I like from what I read and my reactions.
Love your post, will be help me a lot 💙
Raindrop is the only tool you'll ever need for bookmarking
Nice ;)
great!