Here are a few of mine.

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  • On Windows 10, you can create a second, third, or more desktops. I use one of these as my task focused desktop to get stuff done. It’s great for me because only the web browser and tabs that I open in it will be shown. This helps a lot to keep me from seeing another browser instance and having the urge to switch back.

Smartphone

  • I use an Android and realized just this year that I could pause apps. To do this, hold your finger on the app for 2 seconds. A menu will appear, and the hourglass looking thing is tapped to pause the app. This is great for me when I don’t want to get pinged with a bunch of stuff in a set period of time. It also saves battery energy as the app is either no longer running in the background or is running on a low amount of energy. Then when you’re ready to use a paused app, hold your finger on the app for 2 seconds, and a new menu will show to unpause or cancel.
  • ThyTTY@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Writing stuff down is the most important part for ny organization and sanity. My thoughts are always scrambled, there’s too many of them and I forget about important stuff constantly. So I write this shit down. Not only todolists, also my ideas, emotions, conclusions, thoughts.

    However organizing all that writing was hard as well, especially with a perfrctionist drive and overthinking all the mundane shit like “how many pages should I leave for this”, " where to write this new idea down" and being irritated by some of my writing and strikethroughs.

    Now back to the main question - I bought an e-ink device with a stylus. Now I write all the stuff on a tablet. It has almost no other functions other than reading ebooks (and sideloading an app to synchronize my files). There’s nothing to distract me there and I can organize my notes, thoughts, files however I like. When I finish an item, I remove it, it leaves my mind completely. My lists stopped being an incoherent mess and get cleaner with every item I tick off.

    It all gives me a feeling of organization and ease of mind where done stuff disappears from my notes. And writing has the benefit of looking at my thoughts and seeing them from another perspective, often proving that lots of stuff is not that hard after all.

    Hope it helps.