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I think there's definitely room for tools. But they have to discourage distraction, somehow. Personally I took one look at this Show HN and knew it wasn't for
by nvarsj 4y ago
I think there's definitely room for tools. But they have to discourage distraction, somehow.
Personally I took one look at this Show HN and knew it wasn't for me. Too many things going on in one window - I'd find that very distracting and it would make it hard for me to focus.
For me, I have to explicitly do things that reduce distraction. On OS X, this means having a virtual desktop just for work, for example. Browser only for reference pages. Then another desktop which has all my super distracting things, like calendar/outlook/browser/chat. And I force myself to stay on the work desktop when doing work things.
What I have been looking for is a simple task tracker. This does help! Unfortunately I haven't found anything perfect on OS X yet. On Linux, I found the flowtime [1] app worked really well.
All it needs to do is:
- Let me enter a task I'm working on
- Track how long I work on it
That's it. Just the simple action of entering the task and clicking start seems to help kick my brain into focus mode.
1: https://github.com/Diego-Ivan/Flowtime https://github.com/Diego-Ivan/Flowtime
- daniel_sushil 4y agoHey nvarsj, I do agree that you need to do what works best for you. Everyone have a method and if it works, great! However, I do feel like Floutwork really solves your problem of keeping work related things isolated. Although it comes with many producutivity features, you can simply use it just to work on your work related apps. It will be the same as logging into virtual desktop but if you ever need the extra productivity tools later on, you can always use them. It tracks productivity by default and helps you track your tasks with ease. Would love for you to give it a shot! But if it seems overwhelming to you, I totally understand.