How do you start your day?
I'm looking for some tips from the community! How do you start your day?
How do you stay productive through out the day? What tools/strategies do you use?
Would love to hear how everybody goes about tackling their tasks + goals
My general flow for the morning is:
For throughout the day:
Shameless plug warning - I use my product Taskable for managing my tasks which obviously fits my routine really well
Honestly, I start my day by checking to see if anyone famous emailed me back
responding to https://www.indiehackers.com/newest
This is a great recommendation, gonna try that out.
Haha same :)
Part of a startup is that the goals for the day change with new information coming in over the day. Last week was especially bad for me this way. I still reflected at the end of the day and knew that though I got interrupted, it was the right thing to switch to. The incoming info was big enough that I had to throw my plans out the window almost every day. Making a plan is important but staying flexible is maybe even more important.
That sounds like a pretty productive day!
What do you use for tracking tasks/todos? Or do you just write them down?
What do you use for your timer app? Are you using the pomodoro technique?
I like ticktick (https://ticktick.com/) for my todo app. The free tier is pretty generous and I like being able to have a personal list separate from a work list and being able to quickly push off a day or a week for something that isn't pressing. I also like being able to create recurring todos for daily or weekly tasks. Oh, and they have widget support in Android if you want to have a list of tasks on a screen on your phone, which I find very handy.
For timer app I started using the Time Timer and I loved the visual aspect of it but ultimately wanted to have a version on my screen, mostly because I wear headphones a lot of the time and I wouldn't hear it ding/buzz when it's done. I ended up writing my own timer as a chrome extension (you can also just run it in a tab in your browser): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/visual-timer/ppdaimjdegannlbdhdlcehjlcngcboog or https://yawmp.com/timer/
I focused on making it very keyboard shortcut heavy and very resizable so I could throw it in the bottom of my other monitor. I'm working on adding a todo list onto this project (you can play with the VERY early version of it by hitting "t" and hit "?" to see all the keyboard shortcuts available).
Good stuff! I'll check em out
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