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Journalist Mode – How I Get Things Done

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Re: Journalist Mode – How I Get Things Done

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Post by er_d0s »

This is basically how I cram as much productive work into a day that I can, with the goal of strategically dealing with rabbit holes, context switch, constant learning etc.

I've been doing this on paper for ages but I broke my wrist, I couldn't hold a pen but I could type so I figured I'd make it into a thing, polish it up and put it out into the world.

The name comes from Cal Newports book Deep Work, where he's talking about professions where you need to constantly switch between going really deep on a task, but are constantly needing to context switch... which I think applies to a lot of people in tech.

You'll probably want to skim the medium post linked from the website so it makes sense.

Hope someone gets some use out of it :)

Re: Journalist Mode – How I Get Things Done

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Post by er_d0s »

surrTurr wrote: post #3

Interesting program, I downloaded it. Where can I find a documentation of all the available keyboard shortcuts? I pressed some buttons and now I'm only able to write completed items...

I got a bit excited and uploaded it before thinking about that, I've added some context menus but it's basically

cmd+shift+j open doing cmd+shift+k open todo cmd+shift+l open distractions esc hide shift enter - complete task

Re: Journalist Mode – How I Get Things Done

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Post by er_d0s »

surrTurr wrote: post #3

Interesting program, I downloaded it. Where can I find a documentation of all the available keyboard shortcuts? I pressed some buttons and now I'm only able to write completed items...

Wait, do you mean new tasks start out completed? Can you describe the problem in a bit more detail? You can email me at dirk@dirkdirk.com :)

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Post by er_d0s »

surrTurr wrote: post #3

Interesting program, I downloaded it. Where can I find a documentation of all the available keyboard shortcuts? I pressed some buttons and now I'm only able to write completed items...

Just deployed a new version with the shortcuts in Help > Keyboard shortcuts & updated the website to say "alpha"!

:)

Re: Journalist Mode – How I Get Things Done

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Post by surrTurr »

er_d0s wrote: post #6
surrTurr wrote: post #3

Interesting program, I downloaded it. Where can I find a documentation of all the available keyboard shortcuts? I pressed some buttons and now I'm only able to write completed items...

Just deployed a new version with the shortcuts in Help > Keyboard shortcuts & updated the website to say "alpha"! :)

Thanks, I’ll check out the updated version!
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