Share your strategies and tactics to accomplishing things, e.g. time-management, behaviorial conditioning, etc.
Make a schedule. Seperate work and rest rooms.
I've tried various things, but writing a simple list of things I have to do (and can) this day, has been the only thing that worked for me. And it has to be on a piece of paper, digital reminders of org-mode files all don:t work.
I make a list. It helps keep me on track and seeing things on the list bothers me a bit so I actively work to clear them off. This has made me a bit too rigid though, and I get pretty upset sometimes if things disrupt my plans.
I wear special outfits to do certain tasks.
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I only do this for select activities, like sleeping or swimming.
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I guess it's time for me to start wearing a programming cape.
Of course I use org-mode like all highly successful people. I have a file for my daily tasks, every morning I make a heading for the day and put under it everything I want to get done that day. Usually it's not very long and sometimes I modify it during the day. I schedule all the tasks for the day and use the agenda view to manage them. I also have some recurring tasks set up (like daily Anki reviews) using org-habit and the agenda view also shows birthdays and other important dates that I have set up (using org-anniversary). In university I would also set up deadlines for assignments, tests and exams. Back then I used to track the time I spent studying using org-clock but I don't do that anymore.
I only do these at home, at work I am back to the simple daily todo list. Maybe I should start tracking my time there.
I list 3 or less, specific, actionable, things to do that I consider to be the most important things for the day. Even if a thing is a tiny piece in a larger thing. Then I either put those into my calendar, time box my day, or just get started.
Getting things done is a function of knowing what to do next (specifically), when to do the thing, overcoming emotion (fear, anxiety, hate, etc) that leads to procrastination, and just doing the damn thing.
1.have few hobbies
2.when you have nothing else to do
Rule number 1:
Always have a clean bedroom and a well made bed. Every else in life follows after this rule. Note that I've had this rule even before Jordan Peterson's book. The reason why I put this as number 1 is because it's grossly unlikely that you can do anything in your life if you can't even control the one room that you're supposed to have ultimate control over. An easy way to maintain a clean bedroom is to keep the number of possessions as small as possible, if you can relocate your possessions, hobbies, etc. to another room, take the effort to do so.
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I don't intend to 'get things done', either i enjoy doing them
or do the least possible(automate/script/postpone/etc).
My time is more valuable than some productivity metric that will not be remembered in a year.
Just do it - Nike, goddess of victory
Block all social media except prog and email.
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Unfortunately removing distractions and working are necessary but insufficient conditions for productivity. I've been able to remove a number of distractions entirely such as Youtube, imageboards, and video games through inconvenience like DNS-level blocking and uninstalling. For me I have to remove distractions entirely rather than phase them out, or replace them with some other distraction. These days the main distraction I have to deal with is internet searching, and even this is relatively goal directed most days. Having a separate machine for work without internet has been a great help with this last issue.
Despite this I'm still not exactly productive. I'm frequently ill on account of a diet in desperate need of revision (often too ill to work effectively like today), and I often oscillate between different tasks or focus on the wrong task for the moment, my methodology for taking notes etc. is often also very poor and does not follow the literature. (e.g. taking verbatim notes, and re-reading these notes rather than self-quizzing) Doing the right thing can often even be harder than not doing the wrong thing for me as the right thing often requires thought and action while avoiding distraction only requires distance, inconvenience, or disgust.
Anyway beyond being a sort of journal entry to access my current position I just wanted to comment that more or less improving your productivity is going to depend entirely on what the limiting factor for you is. I find journalling to help a lot, and when I was dealing with distractions a lot I found time logging beneficial. These can give you self awareness so that you know what to correct.
Just DO IT!
I just make a todo list and then realize that whatever I put on it isn't worth doing.