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Discussion on: How do you stay focused at work?

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Paul Aigueperse

Hey !

Music is the best way for me to stay focus in a particular task, but I also filtered my notifications dealing with "Do not disturb" mod on my computer and my phone.

I disabled most of my Slack notifications for non-important channels, created a looooot of filters for most of my regular emails (and force me to practice #inbox-zero).

Then if I need to be very focus I cam earlier at the office 😄

I don't believe in "Stay-Focus-Applications" stuff... Just take care of your setup and habits :)

Good luck ! ✌️

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Alvaro Cavalcanti

Even though I get what you mean by not liking the "stay-focused-apps", I enjoyed RescueTime, simply because I don't use it as a "stay-focused" app, I use it as a tool to help me understand what I'm spending my time on. I take a few minutes everyday to go through it's daily report, categorizing what needs to be categorized and comparing my performance over the past days.