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Use the full power of Your Brain to be a Better Developer 🧠❤️👩🏻‍💻

Sarthak Sharma on January 07, 2019

I'm going to tell you the recipe for a pill that will increase the power of your brain. Well, NO! Not that kind of pill. Also, this post is not ...

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Yannis • Jan 7 '19

Thank you very much for the tips, I really enjoyed this article!
To boost my productivity, organization and store my code snippets I use the app boostnote.io ! It’s like a Evernote for programmers, totally free and open source

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 8 '19

Nice app Yannis. Thanks for sharing. 😊

Jason C. McDonald • Jan 7 '19 • Edited

Excellent tips! I use most of these already, and I can guarantee they work.

Depending on my mood, lyrical music sometimes helps me focus better, strangely. (RED is one of my favorites.) That said, I just contributed some of my favorite instrumental albums to your soundtrack repo. (Seriously, go listen through Kai Engel, Sergey Cheremisinov, Andrew Seistrup, and Aaron Mist on FreeMusicArchive. Unbelievable stuff!)

I detailed some of my distraction-busting strategies in Attack of the Focus Leeches, which mirrors many of these tips.

Unfortunately, Hamster Time Tracker, which I used to rely on, is something of vaporware now. Time to build my own, I suppose. ;)

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 8 '19

Thanks for sharing awesome those soundtracks. 😊

Eugene Samonenko • Jan 8 '19

Throw out alcohol from your life

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 8 '19

Damn, totally forgot that one 😂

Louis-Saglio • Jan 9 '19

Why am I reading this instead of working on bug #317 ?

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 9 '19

😂😂

Selahattin Ünlü • Aug 3 '19

This one is the best comment lol :D

Ankur Biswas • Jan 8 '19

Great article. I already followed some of these methods and I can definitely say that it did boost up my productivity. Like:-

I always found non-lyrical music is the key to focus better. That soundtrack repo already got my favourite soundtracks that I listen most often.
I always prefer the official documentation over Google.
I use journal for my ToDo's.
Use Pomodoro Technique. (not often)

I'm definitely going to try:-

Saving code snippets.
Drink more water.
Eat healthy.
Work out daily.

Daragh Byrne • Oct 29 '19

I'm glad of the trick :) - if anyone wants more in-depth stuff about meditation, my articles section is a treasure trove (coder and meditation teacher here).

Sarthak Sharma • Oct 29 '19

Would love to check them. ☺️☺️

Daragh Byrne • Oct 29 '19

Enjoy - see codingmindfully.com/ultimate-guide

Pedro Piñera Buendía • Jan 8 '19

Thanks for writing this up. I agree with most of the tips that you shared.

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 8 '19

😊

Tony Tin Nguyen • Jan 9 '19

Thank you very much for this article. It's really helpful for me.

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 9 '19

Glad this could help😊

Kingsten Banh • Jan 8 '19

Thanks for sharing! I will start focusing on my sleep cycle because it is the most important part of life. Getting enough quality sleep to have a better start of the day.

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 8 '19

Exactly 😊

catherine • Jan 8 '19

Great tips, Sarthak! :)

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 8 '19

Thanks Catherine 😊

Shilpa • Jan 9 '19

This is very effective for me.

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 9 '19

That's why I told you all to follow this 😃 🔥

Kostas • Jan 11 '19

These are some nice tips.

Can you share the source of the food list in “4. Eat healthy”?

Sarthak Sharma • Jan 11 '19

Yeah sure, it was webMD.

Sanjay Ojha • Jan 9 '19

Thank you for the tips. Its very helpful. For focus, I love to listen nature music. Check noisli.com. You can mix sounds. I love the rain sound along with wind.