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When are you most productive?

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GrahamTheDev

Mornings and evenings, I really seem to suffer from “the afternoon slump” more and more. Maybe it is time I started to take an afternoon nap? 🤣

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Pascal Thormeier

This. And in the middle of the night. Sometimes you just need to be up at 2am, listening to some amazing tunes, hacking the living hell out of that project. Funks up your sleep cycle, but yeah.

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

If you get to 2am best bet is to just keep going and go to bed at 6pm the next day - if you work like a Uni student,
then you might as well sleep like a Uni student! 💪🤣

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manu

Same!
I got migraines a few weeks ago so I sleep 1-2 hours earlier.

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Sachin N

Morning 9 AM - 11 AM and evening 5 PM - 6 PM. I've been monitoring my most productivity hours for the past three months as I'm building a new app that helps improve focus and productivity

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Younes

During the night when the kids are sleeping and the only noise that can disturb me is my fan when i click on "Build" 😂

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Oscar Ortiz

If I manage to get a workout session in the morning I’ve realized that I can focus on problem solving a lot more than from a day just going straight to the computer coding and problem solving.

Waking up the whole body seems to help out since I’m fully awake.

When having a half asleep mind and body I can’t really focus and I can tell

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Mihir Joshi

11 AM - 2 PM to start off the day, but 5 PM - 10 PM is when I have produced my best work. I take a nap in the afternoon regardless of the job requirements. I realised how resting for even 30 mins in the afternoon noticably improves my quality of work after I wake up.

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manu

Yeah, sleeping clears my thought process.
I once slept at 7 PM, and I felt really good next morning

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Early morning, after yoga asana my productivity level reach 100%

yoga time

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Jan Küster 🔥

Morning, alone, no sound, no meetings prior or upcoming. One task in focus, deadline not immediate but also not too far away. Dev environment ist fully set up and stable since a few weeks.
Fresh coffee or tea is brewed and a small snack is available, too.
It's light outside and room temperature is at 21C

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manu

Coffee is POG :P

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manu

Me during day:
https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7vexs9tjx7jjoftcdcni.png

Me during night:
Refactored entire app, 500 commits to github

So yeah, I love to work at night, but during the day, even though I do work sometimes on my code during my first and second break (since i'm in school). Once finishing homework, I usually work until 12-2 in the morning

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NIKHIL CM

For me it is not about time. If I am really interested in the work I am doing or the work is critical, I am very productive. Else most of the time I will be distracted by the notification sound, calls and random thoughts 😅

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G. Tuazon • Edited

I'm mostly productive on my days off from my healthcare job. When it comes to dev work, it's usually in the mornings and late afternoons. I take naps after lunch since I get a bit drowsy once I hop on front of my monitors.