At the end of every working day, I type up a short list of what I intend to achieve tomorrow. When tomorrow rolls around, I divide my work into periods with a

At the end of every working day, I type up a short list of what I intend to achieve tomorrow. When tomorrow rolls around, I divide my work into periods with a minor variant of the Pomodoro technique, using a tool that locks my screen every 25 minutes. This has really helped constrain my tendency to become distracted by Interesting Things. It’s a bi-hourly opportunity to mentally review what I’ve just achieved, and consider what I’m doing in the next timeslot. This has proved incredibly valuable over the course of a working day. Since adopting it, my productivity has been consistently improved an order-of-magnitude w.r.t. my intentions. I’m also better hydrated.