Discuss a Reddit Post on Productivity. Very insightful..

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Accurately describes the current quandary i find myself in. Have been exploring notion, obsidian, logseq etc tools for study purposes but have found myself in choice hell. Yet to start. :fearscream:
 
abmr2d2 said:
Accurately describes the current quandary i find myself in. Have been exploring notion, obsidian, logseq etc tools for study purposes but have found myself in choice hell. Yet to start. :fearscream:
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Those are quite too big to use for studies.
I suggested ticktick to few students (free edition) works well for them.

Most importantly, do not spend more then 2 hours researching on tools you require, go through your requirements and check if few edition on most of these tools matches your requirements.
Get started TODAY..

Else you will never come out of research hell, something is always better then other.
 
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Vagabond said:
I haven`t completed reading the complete thread but every once in year or two, I feel like staggered in life and visit the book Eat That Frog!

Helps me get on track, seems based on similar methodology. Highly recommended...
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Can you share a little review of book ?
I have same, not allocated time for this.
dpandey said:
/etc/hosts file on my work laptop

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.
# 127.0.0.1 localhost
# ::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 youtube.com
127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com

It helps.
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IT seems other different topic is merged in here or why @dpandey started it in this topic ?
 
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Futureized said:
what mechanism works for you ?
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When I was younger, pomodoro worked really well. Forced breaks forced a change in perspective, regrouping of ideas and pursuing a different approach for the same task. For reminders I had noteplan, but I no longer have an iOS device as my main phone.

These days, it's a trifecta.

1) Stretchly for forced breaks at every 10 mins
2) Clickup for task lists and recurring reminders
3) Clockify for time logging, so I don't spend the entire day on a single task

I've been able to get 40 to 50 hours of work done every week with these three, which I think is acceptable for self-employed work-from-home.
 
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rsaeon said:
1) Stretchly for forced breaks at every 10 mins
2) Clickup for task lists and recurring reminders
3) Clockify for time logging, so I don't spend the entire day on a single task

I've been able to get 40 to 50 hours of work done every week with these three, which I think is acceptable for self-employed work-from-home.
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1) Use Workrave found it better with multiple type of breaks and easy configuration
2) Use Ticktick (ClickUP seems too vast and specially for teams with multiple projects/users)
Pomodoro built-in among ticktick
3) Clockify integrates with ticktick, but not sure about real benefits of using this.
 
I personally never found even something basic like making lists very useful for productivity, they are only really useful for not forgetting things. All it does is give you a false sense of having things under control, and you feel good when you tell yourself you will do all those things at some point. But even something like going through your "Watch later" list on youtube, which should be easy on paper, is very difficult to do. If you don't feel like doing something right now, most likely you won't feel like doing it tomorrow.

I am the kind of person who likes the idea of something like Notion, and no doubt had I been introduced to it during school/college, I suspect I would have become a user of it. But by the time I came to know about Notion/Obsidian, etc, I saw it as nothing but a glorified list making app, and I had enough failed experiences with lists to keep me away from them.

Right now my digital note taking is limited to a sticky note widget on my homescreen.
 
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they are only really useful for not forgetting things.
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True, my important part is here.
Writing down all subscriptions etc.
All policies payments due
Each one of family

As well, blocking time for specific tasks, with too many of them initially always made me think i have lot to do. But after breaking those into doable work time stars to have very less tasks on hand and doable.
roadrash99 said:
I am the kind of person who likes the idea of something like Notion
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Notion is quite very versatile to learn to adapt..
 
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