I literally just started doing this yesterday. Sometimes the tabs I have open help and sometimes they don’t. Yesterday they didn’t.
“Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work
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#42But I will loose it all, that's why you should bookmark everything, have terminal bookmarks of paths, use git worktrees to allow leaving workspace messy. Use a lot of notion docs, .md docs, notebooks. Places where you organize stuff, so that you can come back easily when you need it again.
A running txt file for each project/work capsule has been wonders. Then common txt files for anything you learned or, things you need to learn, notes/todos, etc. I think I would be half as productive as I'd like without this.
Yes. I have started doing this with an Obsidian note for each project. Any ongoing lists go there, and each day has a heading with todos and thought process while solving the todos. Then in my main todo list or kanban I just link to the project with one sentence on where to resume the next day.
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#43“But I will lose my X"
Some may object that they cannot have a clean desk because they'll lose things. They fear cleaning up…
I intensely dislike the authors smug self satisfied sense of superiority.
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#44I'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'd be pretty lost without my pretty crazy zellij setup.
Can you elaborate? just tried zellij for the first time the other day
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#45The end of every night should start with an empty page and then start every morning with an empty page It's pretty simple. As a data hoarder something like onetab is amazing, there is still a lot of room for improvement though in browser ergonomics, session resets that force you to log back in and refind your place, it's nice to see some tools like data bricks that will at least let you reauth in a new tab.
So I'm one of the people who shuts down their computer at the end of the day and starts fresh. I don't use any type of session resume at the OS level or in the browser, I don't like it. But! I've learned to harness the power of ending the day without complete closure. I stop work when I know the next step I'm about to do fully. Then the next day it's completely obvious what to start with, and I'm back in the flow wit…
Fellow shut-down-er? :P
I somehow started doing this from the very start of my computer interaction, so I never understood why people find it weird. But now if I keep my system on, I feel uneasy, as if I have work pending, so I am make sure to shut it down at the end of day everyday :)
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#46“But I will lose my X" Some may object that they cannot have a clean desk because they'll lose things. They fear cleaning up… I intensely dislike the authors smug self satisfied sense of superiority.
the author is either glib or autistic enough to opine on a clean desk as beyond reproach , i give him the benefit of the doubt and distill the idea that an empty context window offers more room
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#47Every day I work on my main project, I clear my desk completely, take out a small notepad and write my overriding goal, and my next step goal, and then make a list of tasks for that next step goal. Then I work. Writing the major goal every day is important to not let sub-goals overshadow it. Writing the immediate goal every day is important because together the two goals create a very clear direction of action with a…
This kind of daily goal setting reminds me a lot of this podcast, if of interest. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/invest-like-the-best-w...
Jack Dorsey suggests a similar technique for goal setting and resolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9lTpD-yKc&t=2528
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#48nice blog site!
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#49The most important part is to just pay attention to how your current setup affects your mood, creativity, focus, etc. It'll be way easier to adjust once you're in tune with that.
It's really easy to end up on autopilot with the structure of your workdays, only to notice that it doesn't work for the current project all that well. Getting stuck on the 'nothing' approach can be just as bad as getting stuck on a 'hundred tabs' approach if you're just doing one or the other because you've always been doing it.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd be pretty lost without my pretty crazy zellij setup.
Can you elaborate? just tried zellij for the first time the other day
Sure, I have to change a lot of contexts, and each contexts has a lot of sections.
So basically I have
- A session for dev
- each tab is a service
- each service has a pane, vim, claude code, runner (npm run dev, go run etc)
- vim
- staing
- prod
- Misc