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This article is split into four sections:
- #General Advice, psychological or other hacks that I've experienced success with.
- #Easy Tools, pieces of software or other tools that aren't the best option strictly, but they take very little time to set up.
- #Medium Tools, something that anyone who's willing to invest a little time learning on-linux or some other foreign computer concept can do.
- #Tools for Hackers, which are for power-user use and not for the faint of heart. Expect to configure until 3am, or to create your entire own ecosystem along a few guidelines I give you.
You'll notice that the more performance has a direct relationship to price, and complexity has an inverse relationship to price. Something that you set up that's highly complex is likely to be free, but easy and user-friendly tools may be paid, with price increasing the more performant and feature-rich they are.
Only one tool doesn't fit into any of the categories below, and that's Programs I Like/obsidian: a free, cross-platform notetaker that is only as hard to use as you make it. It has its own paid sync service to keep notes in parity between devices, but there's a plugin called Projects/Obsidian/livesync that allows you to selfhost your notes encrypted and for free. See also Projects/Obsidian/home, where the difficulty of getting it to work varies wildly with the different components.
General Advice
- Go to sleep. Seriously, do it. I think that mood is deeply related to productivity. Studies have shown that your day-to-day mood corresponds to the regularity of your sleep schedule.
- This more applies if your work/school has a high time commitment or a penchant for overtaking other things:
- Be logical about your hobbies.
- Logically think about a few of the things you do for fun and designate those as your "hobbies."
- Start thinking about your days in terms of accounting for work time, adulting time, and hobby time for one of your explicit hobbies.
- At work from 8-6? Great. Is your gym or other recreational space only open at a certain time? Block it out for that hobby. Anything else can come in between.
- Be logical about your hobbies.
- This is going to sound counter-productive, but actually don't spend time setting up any of the manual stuff below. That's time you could be spending doing actual work. I use my free time for all of this nonsense and it's probably a waste.
Easy Tools
On your computer
Fun, helpful, easy to start using, but ultimately constrained by the fact that you can only see them from one device in today's world.
- TAPE: a project manager for the creative minded. Cross platform. $5, less than a Starbucks, and you're supporting a really neat studio.
- JRNL, the one by Blarfnip: Similar idea to TAPE, but for daily journal entries. I'm not sure how good creating a habit of sitting down at your computer is though. Windows only. Also $5.
On the Web / Otherwise Cross-Platform or Collaborative
- Notion: Feature-rich collaborative knowledge sharing space for whatever you desire. Personal notes and goals? Digital autogardening? Project collaboration? Done. Free tier along with a pricing scheme. Free Plus account with a student email.
- Many people have concerns with Notion's privacy, so many alternatives exist. AppFlowy looks very powerful from the outside although I haven't used it.
- As always, reddit is a great place for a litany of opinions on any subject. Here's the productivity take on Notion alternatives. Let me know if this link goes down due to reddit chicanery.
- Zotero: Free collaboration-optional research tracker. Projects/zotero-lexis-plus
Medium Tools
WIP
Tools for Hackers
WIP