productivity
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A Simple Productivity Enhancement
tldr:
- move you projects into a single
projects
folder - move your project-related bookmarks into a
projects
bookmark folder
I am alyways looking for ways to enhance my productivity, reduce complexity and reduce my cognitive load (the burden felt by maintaining and managing what you need to do in your head). I have tried so many different things. TO be honest, Iām not even sure of some of those tactics would have worked or not - after maybe a couple of days or weeks, I stop doing most of the things I have tried. The reasons tend to be one of the following:
- too much effort to continue the system
- too much work (at work, home or side-projects) causes me to fall back to my old, comfortable habbits
- I find the system too rigid and I am unable to fit my needs into that system
One thing I tried was _____ā Getting Things Done (INSERT LINK).
I actually liked what it promised:
- You take everything you are storing in your brain, and dump it out into lists of what you need to do:
- immediately
- what can wait (for certain time periods)
- what you cannot do until someone else does something
- long-term goals or aspirations
As I said above, I liked what GTD promised. But what I found was there was so much stuff I was keeping in my head
- so my lists were very long
- and I had to start maintaining lists.
Also, seeing everytihng I wanted to do and had to do was daunting and paralyzing. I quickly adopted, then rejected, GTD.