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A day at work - or "how to save my productivity and sanity against distractions and their minions: notifications"
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Rules

  • No Desktop/Browser notifications
  • Read E-mails
    • early in the morning
    • late in the afternoon
    • quick check after lunch, action allowed based on volume
  • Slack
    • active notifications only for #blocking channels
    • Catch up discussions on early morning and late afternoon
  • Use the Pomodoro technique
  • During a break:
    • Prefer doing something not work-related
    • Slack and Github notifications are allowed

The Holy Trinity

  • Rules apply at all times
  • Stages (see below) must be followed
  • Only a notification in #blocking can break the rule

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Stages

Communication stage

  1. Slack: Catch up with latest discussions
  2. Email: Empty
  3. Github notifications: Empty, urgent first, no more than 25min

Pomodoro stage

  1. Kill distractions (kill or close irrelevant tabs, windows, apps)
  2. During 25 min
  3. Pick a task in the list (try to categorize with Eisenhower Matrix)
  4. Achieve the task
  5. Repeat
  6. Rest 5min

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A day at work

  1. 1 Communication stage
  2. n Pomodoro stages
  3. Lunch
  4. n Pomodoro stages
  5. 1 Communication stage
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