Productivity tricks that still seem to work for me after several months of use:
Autofocous TODO lists on a paper notebook. There’s a single notebook page with 20-30 TODO items, and that’ll be the only TODO list I pick tasks from until all the items are done, abandoned or migrated to a new page.
Pomodoro-style timeboxed work sessions listening to a noise track. Trying out this one linked on Cal Newport’s blog now.
I also recently found out about Bullet Journal notation for notebooks and started using that alongside the autofocus. Basically you collect everything chronologically in a single notebook and build a table of contents and add special topic pages as needed. I’m using the monthly calendar pages idea from Bullet Journal to have a page where I have a single-line description of what I did on the day for each day of the month.
EDIT: The notes the noise track plays every 10 minutes started to grate after many repeats. Switched to this one
Productivity tricks that still seem to work for me after several months of use:
Autofocous TODO lists on a paper notebook. There’s a single notebook page with 20-30 TODO items, and that’ll be the only TODO list I pick tasks from until all the items are done, abandoned or migrated to a new page.
Pomodoro-style timeboxed work sessions listening to a noise track. Trying out this one linked on Cal Newport’s blog now.
I also recently found out about Bullet Journal notation for notebooks and started using that alongside the autofocus. Basically you collect everything chronologically in a single notebook and build a table of contents and add special topic pages as needed. I’m using the monthly calendar pages idea from Bullet Journal to have a page where I have a single-line description of what I did on the day for each day of the month.
EDIT: The notes the noise track plays every 10 minutes started to grate after many repeats. Switched to this one
I’ve not much enjoyed Autofocus, but agree that Bullet Journal is the JAM. Thanks!
I’ve heard of Autofocus, it didn’t stick for me.
Bullet journal is a really useful resource, thanks for linking it!