How to be More Productive

What Problems to Solve

• is it worth?
• to what extent?
• Should we fix it now? or put it into backlog and solve it later?
  • Our brain will work on the problem in background, after we work on more same problem/domain, it may be much easier to solve it.
• what you try to achieve or learn

Priority

• work on the most important thing
  • put trivial things into backlog

Proactive

Track + Notification

• Use Timer for wakeup
• Use Calendar to track event, deadline
• Use Keep to track ideas/todo

Less Distraction

Turn off unnecessary notification

• Gmail
  • Gmail App only notifies email from primary category
  • Figure our why it’s marked as important and remove its filter or move it out from Primary category

Schedule

Health

• sleep and wake up at the same time

Sleep & Rest

• Do Not Disturb at Bedtime
• unclutter your mind

Music

• to wake up
• get excited

Wake up

• My wife is a teacher, so she wakes up very early at 6:00 am
• It’s best for me to adjust accordingly: wake up early.

Track TODO

• Write Email Now And Send It Later
  • Schedule Send
• Draft email
  • whenever you remember you need to send one email, create one draft first

Developer TODO

• TODO
• leave a compile error

Motivation

• Have a thing to do/wake up tomorrow

Get Things Done

• the problem/pain-point, find a way to fix it
• Write things down