So you don't have to click through, here they are:
* Using an outliner like Roam Research
* Working with another person (e.g. pair programming)
* Working with another person present (e.g. independent coworking)
* Running a “distraction detection” program
* Mentally noting the distraction-kind and returning my attention
* Keeping my phone in my kitchen
* Writing on Go Note Go, my headless keyboard
* Attending meetings/talks in “clamshell mode” (laptop closed, no keyboard or mouse available)
* Making TODO lists
* And explicitly writing down the ^^active TODO^^
* Going to sleep at a specific time (e.g. 10:10pm)
* Exercising regularly (or at least aiming to)
* Stopping watching TV in the middle of an episode (ends of episodes are more addicting)
* 50 minute working sessions (e.g. focusmate.com)
* Stretching
* Taking short deliberate breaks
* Using Pomodoro timers for working sessions
* Using the “Intention” Chrome extension by DK
* Keeping all notifications on my phone turned off
* Asking the people I live with to get my attention first before starting a conversation with me
* Announcing my current active goal publicly (e.g. in a chat room)
* “Hide feed” Chrome extension, also by DK
This is all in addition to what I call the "Nike strategy". i.e. "Just do it". aka pure will power. But you don't need to rely completely on the Nike strategy -- the rest of the list can be useful too!
Thanks for turning me on to Go Note Go. I’ve been contemplating a similar system for quite some time.
How often do you review your “Go” notes? I’m finding that’s now becoming the bottleneck in my mental model - I’ve reduced most of the friction in my output, but now there’s more activation energy for retrieval.
I’ve been using Obsidian for a week now, which I hope will pay dividends in time. Do you have a particular workflow or stack for your “second brain?”
I review them frequently -- opportunistically only, but frequently nevertheless. I gather I'm unusual in this regard; most people I talk to about note taking seem to be "write only".
For myself, I write notes on Go Note Go without seeing them, but I also use Roam at a computer where I do see my notes. When there, I'm often curious to read for the first time what I wrote blindly the day before.
I also go back through my notes looking for ideas to expand on (tagged e.g. #[[Snippet Ideas]]), or for TODOs for projects.
> To use Go Note Go in the shower, acquire a waterproof Bluetooth enabled keyboard, and pair it with your Go Note Go Raspberry Pi 400. Go ahead and leave that waterproof keyboard in your shower.
So you don't have to click through, here they are: * Using an outliner like Roam Research
* Working with another person (e.g. pair programming)
* Working with another person present (e.g. independent coworking)
* Running a “distraction detection” program
* Mentally noting the distraction-kind and returning my attention
* Keeping my phone in my kitchen
* Writing on Go Note Go, my headless keyboard
* Attending meetings/talks in “clamshell mode” (laptop closed, no keyboard or mouse available)
* Making TODO lists
* And explicitly writing down the ^^active TODO^^
* Going to sleep at a specific time (e.g. 10:10pm)
* Exercising regularly (or at least aiming to)
* Stopping watching TV in the middle of an episode (ends of episodes are more addicting)
* 50 minute working sessions (e.g. focusmate.com)
* Stretching
* Taking short deliberate breaks
* Using Pomodoro timers for working sessions
* Using the “Intention” Chrome extension by DK
* Keeping all notifications on my phone turned off
* Asking the people I live with to get my attention first before starting a conversation with me
* Announcing my current active goal publicly (e.g. in a chat room)
* “Hide feed” Chrome extension, also by DK
This is all in addition to what I call the "Nike strategy". i.e. "Just do it". aka pure will power. But you don't need to rely completely on the Nike strategy -- the rest of the list can be useful too!