Hey, developers. Need your advice!
How do you monitor your productivity? How do you keep yourself focused and organized throughout the day?
Maybe, you've worked out some daily rituals that help you tune in to work? Or you stick to some management system? Please, share 📢
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I am interested also!
Especially if you collaborate with multiple open source projects: how do you organize your activities between projects, life, work...
This might sound super strange but it genuinely has helped me recently when I've been in a bit of a slump...
I currently use Toggl to track my time for freelance clients. But at times when I find myself procrastinating or deviating away from a task that I know I should be doing right now instead of looking at xyz somewhere else like dev.to 🙄.
I time it and then add that time to the "dicking around" project. Which in turn, at the end of the day equates to the total amount of cardio I have to do that evening.
And magically enough I stopped dicking around for extended periods of time and started running longer 🏃♂️
Hahahaha I absolutely love this
I use the app Notion for managing my projects and the app Tick Tick for managing everything on my To Do list.
Don't seem to have much of a choice. So much to do! But - making sure that productivity is "smart" and not just "stuff..." is the difficult part. So, defining really clear goals helps us decide what is the most important things to do. Then - we just have to steer the boat in the that direction.
Morning Ritual.
I have a morning ritual where I basically do things that will fill me up with energy: drink water, green juice, meditation and writing.
Then I use a notebook and set up my agenda for the day. It could be a night before or the same day, it does not matter to me. Here I write my Most Important Things to do and let some blocks for eating and workout. If possible I try to do the more meditation and reading sessions I can along the day.
I keep doing this all days of the week no matter the time I wake up.
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Stick to the agenda
Try to stick the more you can to the agenda you wrote down, be flexible but try to follow up the Most Important Things you have to do.
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Healthy Habits
The more important thing in the world for you is yourself. Give enough time to sleep, eat healthy things, drink enough water, practice self knowledge and do some workout.
Know yourself and learn to read the manual inside you. Unfortunately there are many times we don't follow our intuition and we just keep doing things in automatic mode.
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Consciousness
Once I read this:
"The depth of your attention determines the depth of your experience. If your attention is profound, your experience of life is profound."
So, I try to avoid multitasking as this interferes with my attention, as well I keep myself out of digital distractions like social media and chat.
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And those are some steps I follow everyday :) I hope it can help a bit.
Some great tips here, thank you for sharing!
Spreadsheets, Journals & Calendars
I have a trick where I assign myself a task I have to finish before stepping away and doing something else. It's all too tempting to take a short break in the middle of something, but really it's best just to finish the thing and then take a break.
Really helps me close the loop on an activity.
I've been conducting an experiment for half a year now on myself to become more productive using Beeminder. So far, it's made me blog more, develop more code, become more active, and overall be happier!
Data and charts: beeminder.com/brennanbrown
Write-ups and weekly reports: journal.bar/
3 things:
1 - notion
2 - to do list
3 - Pomodoro technique
At the end of my day, I plan the next day (based on what I already know I will have to do)
For me it works, it's simple without many complications
I don’t use any tricks anymore, every life hack, diet or special exercise or even app that claims to help never does. What I did find that helped over time is a routine, and I don’t mean like a boring normal like routine. I believe at the core of keeping productive is getting the right balance of mindfulness and self discipline. I think the perfect thing that teaches this are a few martial arts, but there’s podcasts out there and such on self discipline as well like jockos podcast. I only really use the mindfulness stuff myself to keep my mind in the moment and help deal with loud environments so enacting good self discipline seems to help me the most. I written some stuff here on my blog as well about it a while ago: somet.dev/learning-to-learn