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Risto_Saarelma comments on Group Rationality Diary, September 16-30 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 18 September 2014 06:22:03PM *  5 points [-]

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

Comment author: hamnox 23 September 2014 10:12:31PM 0 points [-]

I've heard of Autofocus, it didn't stick for me.

Bullet journal is a really useful resource, thanks for linking it!

Comment author: therufs 24 September 2014 03:20:39AM 0 points [-]

I've not much enjoyed Autofocus, but agree that Bullet Journal is the JAM. Thanks!

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