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Productivity tips for the easily distracted

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Re: Productivity tips for the easily distracted

#51
Having too many screens doesn't make you get distracted, there is a root cause as to why you are procrastinating or not enthralled in your work, and it's not having too much screen real estate.

You should try to address the root cause of your issues because it's only a matter of time before the 1 screen you have left ends up being covered by a browser window full of off topic tabs.

Re: Productivity tips for the easily distracted

#52
I don't mean to be rude, but I'm surprised noone has yet asked how much this itself is an epic case of productive procrastination.

As in: "The job I have [refactor] is grinding, but the shiny awesome distraction project idea I have [caravan workspace] is shiny and awesome and clearly very important, so I'll focus and work really hard on it"

I'm prone to see this pattern because I'm prone to falling into it myself. Not that it's exclusively a bad pattern, you can get a lot done that way.

jaquesm, if you don't mind I'd be interested to know two things:

* How long the whole setup took, and how long you've had the caravan for? (I saw you've been using it at least 10 days from the post, which seems a very good sign - obviously you got some work done recently apart from finding/installing/blogging your new caravan workplace.)

* As a favour, could you please follow up in 2-3 months and tell us honestly how it is working out?

:)

Re: Productivity tips for the easily distracted

#53
My solution is little more lo-fi - I just have a bunch of rules in my hosts file to resolve urls of sites I waste too much time on (HN/twitter/engadget etc) to the wrong IP so I can actually concentrate.

Sure I can just edit the hosts file, but I find that extra step seems to deter me :)

Re: Productivity tips for the easily distracted

#54
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was somewhat difficult to get pics of it, as it is a compact space, but I took a shot at it. (Pardon the pun.) The "door" from my storage room: http://hikingdave.smugmug.com/photos/i-KNkxxsb/0/M/i-KNkxxsb... Looking in... Sorry that it is blurry, but you can see that is a not a huge space. I have a gaming chair to sit on, and I keep a big blanket in there. It gets cold, even in summer: http://hikingdave.smugmug.co…

Looks like a fire trap. Be careful.

True, that is one of my concerns. My mitigation of that risk is that one of the walls (to the left of the monitors) is nothing but cloth - in an emergency, I just pull the staples out and walk right out.
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