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My work day starts with "what must I accomplish today?" Then I tackle that list. Sometimes the list changes. "Focus work" happens as pressure vs desire mingle. The real question is "what is expected of me in the next four hours?" And suddenly my work is structured.
I've found mostly the opposite. Some well arranged windows are quite a nice anchor, I'm working on what's there in front of me. It's like bowling with bumpers in place, instead of the ball going in the gutter, the structure keeps it in the lane. I've found it necessary to devote time to cleaning and clearing windows, and sometimes I forget what's going on, and as I'm closing out the windows because I forgot what was…
I try to start most days on my machine by closing almost everything I had opened the previous day.
I’ve always have wanted a clean project area on my computer, never managed it though. I try to keep a space for organization (slack, jira, whatever) and another for the ide, for example. Start working, and pretty soon I need to check an old pr on GitHub, and see it side to side with the ide, next someone sends a link in slack that opens a chrome window which is a doc with links that go into tabs. Hold, I have to hop…
I’ve always have wanted a clean project area on my computer, never managed it though. I try to keep a space for organization (slack, jira, whatever) and another for the ide, for example. Start working, and pretty soon I need to check an old pr on GitHub, and see it side to side with the ide, next someone sends a link in slack that opens a chrome window which is a doc with links that go into tabs. Hold, I have to hop…
mkdir NewProject
cd NewProject
Every morning I close all work browser tabs from prior day. 99% of them I don't need again/can just reopen if I need. The 1% I'll note on a todo list or keep open somewhere.
Oh look another article of “this works for me therefore it must work for everyone else”