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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, I’m 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 _____’ 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.

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