Category: Productivity & Procrastination
My thoughts on productivity and procrastination
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Opening a new notebook in my productivity system
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Another evolution of my offline productivity system
This week, I mark an important milestone in my professional life. It is an excellent opportunity to start a new productivity notebook and tell you about the latest evolution of the best productivity system I know.
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New notebook, new plans
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Hybrid digital/analog tangible week planning
Here’s a neat method that helps me organize my week, increase my productivity and fight procrastination.
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New year, new notebook
On November 7, 2016, I started an experiment in personal productivity. I decided to use a notebook for thirty days to manage all of my tasks. The thirty days ended more than three years ago, and I still use notebooks to manage myself. Today, I started the thirteenth notebook.
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A tangible productivity tool (and a book review)
One month ago, I stumbled upon a book called “[Personal Kanban: Mapping Work Navigating Life](https://amzn.to/33DM4l4)” by Jim Benson (all the book links use my affiliate code). Never before, I saw a more significant discrepancy between the value that the book gave me and its actual content. -
Book review. Indistractable by Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal is known for his book “Hooked” in which he teaches how to create addictive products. In his new book “Indistractable”, Nir teaches how to live in the world full of addictive products. The book itself isn’t bad. It provides interesting information and, more importantly, practical tips and action items. Nir covers topics such as digital distraction, productivity and procrastination.
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Talking about productivity methods
The best way to procrastinate is to research productivity.
Boris Gorelik
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An interesting way to beat procrastination when working from home
Working from home (or a coffee shop, or a library) is great. However, there is one tiny problem: the temptation not to work is sometimes much bigger than the temptation in a traditional office. In the traditional office you are expected to look busy which is the first step to do an actual work. When you work from home, nobody cares if you get up to have a cup of coffee or water the plants. This is GREAT but sometimes this freedom is too much. Sometimes, you wish someone would give you that look to encourage you to keep working.
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On procrastination, or why too good can be bad
I’m a terrible procrastinator. A couple of years ago, I installed RescueTimeto fight this procrastination. The idea behind RescueTime is simple — it tracks the sites you visit and the application you use and classifies them according to how productive you are. Using this information, RescueTime provides a regular report of your productivity. You can also trigger the productivity mode, in which RescueTime will block all the distractive sites such as Facebook, Twitter, news sites, etc. You can also configure RescueTime to trigger this mode according to different settings. This sounded like a killer feature for me and was the main reason behind my decision to purchase a RescueTime subscription. Yesterday, I realized how wrong I was.
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The best productivity system I know
I am an awful procrastinator. I realized that, many years ago. Once I did, I started searching for productivity tips and systems. Of course, most of these searches are another form of procrastination. After all, it’s much more fun to read about productivity than writing that boring report. In 2012, I discovered a TiddlyWiki that implements AutoFocus – a system developed by Mark Forster (AutoFocus instructions: link, TiddlyWiki page link)
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I should read more about procrastination. Maybe tomorrow.
You’ve been there: you need to complete a project, submit a report, or document your code. You know how important all these tasks are, but you can’t find the power to do so. Instead, you’re researching those nice pictures the Opportunity rover sent to the Earth, type random letters in Google to see where they will lead you to, tidy up your desk, or make another cup of coffee. You are procrastinating.
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On procrastination
I don’t know anyone, except my wife, who doesn’t consider themselves procrastinator. I procrastinate a lot. Sometimes, when procrastinating, I read about procrastination. Here’s a list of several recent blog posts about this topic. Read these posts if you have something more important to do*.