How to be Productive

the scariest things are oftentimes the

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Whatever you use to do your apps.

Scott and I have been major fans of using to do apps, as well as we've talked many times about the

so many times I think

I use the Things application, which I find really nice. It has a decent I'm excited to talk about all this stuff today because it's Exactly the the type of stuff that you put in place

Integration with Getting Things Done methodology. That's a fantastic book by David Allen that I would recommend that you read. He's updated it a couple of years ago.

remind me in 15 minutes to do X, Y, and Z. And then they'll automatically

I'm driving home or something like that, and I'll remember, oh, I need to do something

number one thing you can do to actually

Sit down and get stuff done.

which I really like because

and then I'll just, hey, X, JS your car battery. 5 volts is most USB devices,

practice,

I never get any better at them because I don't like to practice them. Yeah. It's kind of similar, right? Let's talk about to do's. To do's is probably the Yeah.

the Siri reminders,

You can't say the word because you'll set off everybody's thing. But

We're casting that task that took 6 minutes. Yeah. I know. I hear you. Alright. Well, we got to dos, and I think it's important to have these things.

Like the things that you just don't wanna do. Just do them 1st because it's incredible how much better you feel after you actually get it done and you realize, oh, wow. I just spent 3 weeks that doesn't take me out. Sometimes I press them in the wrong order,

But to me, the best tool in your Jeff.

Because, like, let's say you're using Duolingo or, So that's what we got. That's that's how I'm gonna be productive this year.

it tries to show you. And I It becomes easier and easier, and you'll get addicted to it. Yeah. Totally.

you know, doing workouts in your workout app. If your workout app is like, you've hit your goal, you know,

your brain gets used to doing things, whether it's good or bad.

Digital hoarder. Yeah. So, another kinda interesting thing about habits is this idea of neural pathways in that

or or any of that stuff. And like my I use a workout app called the Strong ESLint, and

And, For tracking, though, track the stuff that actually you want to improve. Like, if you brush your teeth every day, don't put that in your your tracking app. Because why? Like, But I think really the you know, to dos are are are a good tool. Habits are a good tool.

stuff. Yeah. The all the back and forth that needs to happen. It's similar to Stripe where you need to, like, send a request and get it back and then get a token and send it back. And The CSS has changed.

episodes. It's a great episode. Go go and listen to it. You know, and another thing, you know, I I actually really like Clerk as an auth solution, but I I just didn't wanna pay for something. Right? Yeah. This is like a little work you know, a little fun project to keep it all in my database.

man,

because and having the software or the processes in place to sort of get around that. So

All those things were really easy to do.

But that that was a good episode, by the way, as it just aside the past

Customize

electron aspects of the UI with properties have them be done or or archive the ones that I don't care about,

as little distractions as they possibly can.

this extension for Versus Node? And this might be getting a little too in the weeds. You might end up spending too much time on this. A PC

of Versus Code, but it also allows you to write CSS to customize Sometimes people do eat that frog, which is where you find The biggest, baddest to do in your list and you do it first, I, be the thing that you need to accomplish for the day. I like that methodology. I am not the best practitioner of it. Again, I mentioned that, and I'm trying to always think about them. But, you know, 1st and foremost, I've noticed that, easiest for me to procrastinate. Even if they're not, like, the most difficult, they're still, You Node, scary to me. So I know Yeah. Choose not to do them. I always say, like, sort your to do list by, like, anxiety.

again, you're just focusing on the Node, and there's something, at least for me, there's something about just having it, like, send out the biggest thing she said was 12 volt to 5 volt hey, Sourcy,

Let's get right into it. Yeah. Yeah. We just Scott get going on this. So I'm I'm excited to be back. It was a nice break, but

I'm I'm stoked that everything's sort of back on track, and And we're working. Yeah. Same.

the React server components after this, and I was like, I don't think that would be a good first one to do right off the bat. You know? uh-uh, in a certain amount of time. So I think that do you still use one of those? I know HeyFocus was the big one. Yeah. You Node, so HeyFocus is Mac only, unfortunately.

getting those shakeies off. Yeah. Exactly. We're about to record,

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how you can be productive flaws or maybe just who they are. You know? If you're not, like, examining those things, you just end up becoming a much more intense it turns it into this, like, Where that 1 tab takes over the focus, but the other tabs just get pushed away. And then if you click or tab over into the other tab, All the windows kind of reshuffle instead of keeping 2 up. If you keep 2 up on your laptop and then you got your browser window over the side, Maybe you're trying to code side by side. That gets to be a bit of a pain.

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Habit focused, productivity focused come the new Yarn, it's something I like to evaluate throughout the year. It's not necessarily a a new year thing, but it It's hard not to feel that way at the beginning of the year. Like, alright. You you've had some time off. You're coming back to work.

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habits it like, I I think it modifies your host file.

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you know, my focus because I do like physical things like that, but the whiteboard in the kitchen, particularly to me, does not exist as a calendar. It does not Any shortcomings

And then you see CSS thing I I don't think anything feels as better as when I'm you know, just have that 1 screen in front of me, and I'll I'll, like, zoom way out on the windows to get more real estate. And,

I could have opened up, like, 2 more tabs. You know? is the calendar.

So, I schedule email. Hey. When am I going to actually look at my email? I'm gonna block off an hour for email, and during that time, I'm going to get to inbox 0 Every single day. I try to do that every day.

the things that that Wes me up on a day to day because I'm paying attention to them, I think a really important thing to do with to dos I'll turn that stuff off, or I'll make myself private or something. But

Totally. And and maybe we can even talk about some books because there's, like, a a lot of, like, good Systems books out there, to to fill your life with.

is one of my key things that holds me back Wes

being able to, like, really recognize that my my focus on a specific task is a problem. I'm definitely a this It's over here. This is over here. This you know you know, especially in, like, a code world, people might relate to the fact that, like, you could be working on feature a, group and batch the the the things that you have to do Altogether JS much as possible, for 2024, 52 consecutive weeks, that's gonna make you feel great. And I'm I'm personally motivated by seeing those numbers go up. My wife, She does not care. The the the streak, she doesn't care. Yeah? The Apple Watch rings? I don't give a single crap about gosh. The rings closing UI.

Systems work. So I think the big thing is that you wanna examine, first and foremost, your your current habits. What's holding you back? What are you working on? What what are the types of things in your day to day that goof you up? Like, for me, I can tell you very explicitly And I understand server costs and stuff. So, yeah, I built my own, and it's at Habit Path Scott io.

calendar in the kitchen and a list to dos, and I'm just like, it doesn't exist to me if it's on this whiteboard in the kitchen. You know? It needs to be in my calendar. I said that about the whiteboard in the kitchen too. I said that thing about the whiteboard in the kitchen,

does not remind me of things that doesn't tell me the location or what time I'm supposed to leave. I would love to get, The more and more I work, the more and more I realize that my calendar we've been we've been sharing some things. And what's cool about our house, Wes, JS that there's, like, an old security system, like one of those old school security systems. Too. Yeah. So we have the power wired throughout the house. It's 12 volt. Yeah. You can you can easily hook that up to a tablet to power a tablet and then mount mount a couple tablets throughout the house if you could get them cheap enough. Yeah. I I thought about doing that for a long time. If anyone is listening and is curious how that works JS your security systems,

throughout your entire house,

Like, how difficult, how long of a task this is going to be. If it's an easy task, it could be, like, 1 point. In that way, you can easily visualize, Also, I tried some, like, built in Bos solutions before. I decided to roll my own, and, like,

is to assign to dos like due dates, assign them maybe, like sometimes you can give them points, Big time flosser. Right? Like, hey. I gotta you know, I can do this thing in very little time or very little effort, and priority 2 is a a good thing to assign. A lot of these apps will just have that built in JS, like, columns for your to use. I will assign dates to things that need to happen in the future. But for my day of, I'll do I'll just do what's called bubbling, which is I'll just look at everything, and I'll just reorder them top to bottom in which order I think I should do them. And then I just know exactly what to do next. Totally. So, I mean, the the good big thing about to do list is you Scott use it. You gotta maintain it.

like, if they're

Yeah. You know what I have to think about it. Yeah. I know. To me, yeah, that that that seems like a a cool thing either way. Yeah. With your to dos, officially diagnose you with anything.

are applications so that when the server detects

I we've talked about using focused apps quite a bit in the past, and I've never been able to make them stick. What these are

or they'll rewrite

And, likewise,

they operate out like a system level of your computer and they will block

which is domain names, right? You can block a domain name and you won't be able to unblock that your workbench.

that brings us to focus. So, Wes. Yes.

uninterrupted time is your your biggest asset when you're trying to be creative or focused.

what to do at any given point,

productivity Formally diagnosed so that by my my wife. It turns out,

chain for

Tool

I've never once seen a quote and been like,

certainly if that helps you go for it, but for workbench

The the what the quotes do in Hey Focus is they make me feel bad. Yeah. They that's like kind of like a finger wave. Like, it's like a it's like, You gotta be joking.

focus modes are actually pretty good. Like, they're pretty configurable.

I did this on this day, and you're just like, yeah. See, like, that kind of stuff again, it I find that so cheesy, but, like, that's That's me. Like, I have friends that

I actually like them, and I have them turn on, I think at, like, 8:30 every single night, and you can of course, I have my recording one. So I guess I do use focus mode more than I thought. I I have them Scheduled. Yeah. I I scheduled mine. I wish they blocked websites.

Like, I'm sorry you're having a hard time. And the keypads,

My other tip for focus is actually, I have 2 here. The the Built in Bos

yeah.

Let's do it. Yeah. I'm not I'm not I'm not much of a quote guy typically.

post quotes on Instagram and I either totally miss a meeting or I'm, like, a couple of minutes late for it because I totally forgot. I've got 18 reminders set up and Yeah. I was gonna say really frustrating. Or the opposite Wes I'm trying to get into the the flow Scott. And I keep having these little

and about what they're going through and stuff like that. And

You know? if I'm not recording and I'm coding,

hit us up on Twitter with what focus apps you like for Windows. I'm curious because I don't I don't use Windows, so I don't I don't know what's net Yeah. World. So we'll we'll give you a retweet on this, but I do use heyfocus.com.

Yeah. It stops that because you hit enter, and all of a sudden, you're you're, For me, heyfocus works like you mentioned on a,

And so it will send you to, Like a page that has a quote that's like, you know, Sun Tzu or something like that. So, you know, you you end up getting you kinda feel bad about it. You read the quote, And it's like Benjamin Franklin being like,

I still use it. They just had a recently like, a a monitor in the kitchen that has a massive touch screen, but, like, that's easy enough to add stuff to and swipe through. One day, I'll I'll do that project. I know. It I I've had it on my brain for a long time. I've been Talking to my neighbor about it because he does stuff like this as well. So, No problems there anymore.

Added, like, Pomodoro tracking and stuff like that. But I I I very consistently when I do use focus, which more and more I'm needing to, stuff. I get so much more done because the one thing it does is it stops those mindless neuro pathways as you mentioned. Right? Like, I I really went to town pairing down my Versus Node setup,

a really nice update that And it can even schedule time for scheduling an upkeep. So what do I use my calendar for? I use it.

and then people won't schedule Schedule you for things.

large

But and, likewise, like you said, I've just started using Siri for things. I it's funny. I always used Google Assistant when I was Bos Android for a long time. And then when I moved to Apple, I completely stopped using it because I always just like Siri wasn't as Vercel. But you know what? I've been using it for setting reminders. I've been using it for setting timers when I'm cooking, just like little things here and there. And I I gotta see. I use the the app I use for to dos is called Height.

making coding

uninterrupted

expensive watches and suits and stuff, and I'm I'm the guy wearing the beanie in the back, like, you know, on my computer.

Hopefully, you can have JS big of a chunk open as possible.

Totally. Yeah. And that's one thing I I really,

meetings and

Just if you are going to have it, squeeze them all into Node day or 1 afternoon or something like that. And then just

I used when I used to work at at Ford, they had a lot of meetings, and I always just remember being I I did, like, sit in meetings with Ford executives We're like, I literally did nothing in that meeting. I'm just sitting in this meeting. Ford executives are there talking, you know, with their Sanity,

sections of time to sort of get into the headspace and do it. And If you're trying to like, if your main thing is

you're not going to be doing a very good job, and you're not going to be getting as much work done as you want. So you got lots of smooth parts in your brain that are that's the the easiest path for the brain

Sometimes I think managers and people that book meetings don't necessarily understand that in order to get good coding done. You need I also have another hot key to stop the recording,

and you're trying to squeeze your main thing in between

I hated Having to, like, leave my my code time to go send to those things, and it was always so disruptive. So, yeah, block off the time,

5 minutes early, just so I know I'm not gonna totally miss it.

My workflow notifications

It it is tough, and and I've had to put on my

for my calendar, which I use Cron as the calendar. It's a nice little app.

need to have a reminder 30 minutes before, 10 minutes before, 5 minutes before, Now I'm part of a bigger team, and, you know, I I'm I'm ready to, step up my game here. Alright. Thanks, everybody, for tuning in. We'll catch you on Wednesday.

it's one of those things. But Yeah.

I have to have those notifications persist through no matter what. Unless I'm recording, You have Big goals. You have big dreams. Like, what are you going to do dismiss. I I I don't care. You know? It's a Give me those virtual badges. Yeah. Give me those colored circles. Give me those numbers. I want them. I wanna collect them all. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't know if they do, actually. That would be kinda cool if they did. But I have mine scheduled on a very strict schedule. So, like, during work time, the work one's on. You know? Bedtime, the bedtime Node starts at 9 o'clock or whatever. Dinnertime Node starts at 5. Like, I I do have them all all scheduled.

like, did I miss it? Did I miss it? Did I miss it? You Node, and that's why we'll talk about this in just a second. But that's why I love having days where I have nothing

do I need to get out of this? Yeah. I know. Since since stepping into

I I do miss, like, texts from friends and stuff, and I maybe just don't even see them because I I have a hard time, like, going back and looking looking at stuff like that. For me, it's the like, missing a meeting is always the kills me because, like, I go into this deep zen state Wes officially diagnosed with ADHD.

The role of executive producer at Century. I have very few of those days anymore. I I have lot I have a lot more meetings, which,

on on the board because I know I can just get lost in it, and I'm not constantly thinking, in my list for the day, and I absolutely love that because I am the worst for forgetting stuff like that. Yeah. You know what?

The do not disturb features for me are, like, both a blessing and a curse because, yeah, I I have it blocking text messages from literally everyone except for my wife. Yeah. And because of that, In the short time in which my code is building, Yeah. I get that.

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when I was working for myself,

And,

Think I am. I'm I'm really interested in improving my habits overall

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Node dialing down my processes. You Node? I I am not working for myself anymore. I am not you know, before Wes I was,

in my day to day, hey, man. That the only the only people that it affects me is is me.

keyboard here, and one of the hot keys and and And then I got a whole bunch of work Deno, and then I realized, oh, shoot, I missed, like, 80 emails, and it's just 60 Slack messages. But I got so much done, And I often need to find myself getting into that sort of flow state a little bit more often.

And sometimes it happens accidentally. And I realized that I had turned my do not disturb on. I have like a hotkey on my desk here. I've got a little

is my recording key. And part of that process, it turns on my do not disturb, and it starts my screen recorder all in one. And sometimes

I

my camera JS over here now. I've got this little

Accounting stuff is the worst for me with that. It's just like,

I feel like I want to do that a little bit later. My biggest thing that holding back is just like split attention in general JS that to do your work.

I guess that falls under focus as well. But while you are doing something. Oh, what's on Slack? Oh, what's on Twitter? Oh, what's on? And often I'll get into that state of like,

you know, one thing one mode I've started using in Versus Node a lot, which I never did before, version of the way that you were your entire life because the the the habits that you cultivate Stuff. So,

was the you know, if you double click on a tab

but, who

But I I like this this mode where it allows you to focus and shift the windows a bit.

Stuff. I do feel like I need 2 screens when I'm recording for various reasons, how are you doing today? First off, this is, our 1st recording of the new year. So we are, you know, getting those, Have you seen, If you double click if you have 2 tabs up in Versus Node, like, side by Node, and you double click on the tab itself, And so for me And you built,

The most productive I am is when I'm at a coffee shop, and I have 1 display Yeah. Right in front of me, and that's my laptop. That's the most productive I ever am.

sometimes it's really nice when you just have Node stuff. You're just zoned in, and there's not you don't have the other stuff distracting you. I don't know. Do you ever feel that way? Absolutely.

that I've been thinking about a lot lately. So I'm playing around with my monitors here, and so I have a 32 inch 4 ks, and then I have a 27 inch 4 ks, And then I have my 15 inch laptop open

4 k monitor. And every time I go there, I'm like, you know what? Maybe displays. A second Node, certainly because sometimes they need to throw stuff on a 2nd display and reference it when I'm recording.

all at once. And I have the same setup at my cottage, but I don't have the secondary But I'll check this out as well. Can you do any

any code Wes. I'm gonna dive into that stuff right away. Recording, content creation, This podcast is, presented by Century, so let's get going. Wes, what was really great about rolling my own auth is that I could do things like, oh, if you have a special pin, you can actually make an account.

the key number 1 thing that I procrastinate. Yeah. I'm not gonna procrastinate

exploration learning. I'm not gonna procrastinate that stuff, but it's It's the little itty bitty stuff that I don't want to do. Oh, I gotta call To do tracker, I really like it. Feels nice to use.

about something for our house. I'm gonna put that off forever.

a contractor

I will put that off. That's This is a great, Great extension.

The actual feature a that you're working on is.

So I've examined that, and I know that that's holding me back. Another one is, like, if I have a task Such as writing an email I don't want to write,

HTML, which is which is Versus Node like index HTML file. Right. And then I wrote client side JavaScript Because,

It sent the CSS to the client and did a live refresh of it so that you basically have live reload because the old one was like, you have to restart the editor or, like, reload the window every single time you make a single change, which JS dogs. Crazy. Yeah.

I had tried it, and it's all it always wasn't working properly. And I was like, Scott this.

on the

So I hadn't seen this one. There's another one which is like custom CSS for Versus Node.

as well.

Height dot app is the URL, and it's really Node, lightweight, And I've been using ABC Customize UI, and it basically allows you to, 1, customize

you know, tasks that I have to do. That's pruning things and and,

it's very important to just block off time

I know developers

calendar.

adjusting my systems. I think

So I'll schedule time to do email. I'll schedule time for deep work. I'll schedule time for upkeep and planning. That's like looking at my to do list. That is looking at my,

Christmas break. You got time to write CSS for your text editor. Yeah. I think everybody sorta tweak their editor over the holidays because it's the one time you have stuff. You guys a little bit of time to fuss around. Yeah. Totally. Alright. Well, last thing we have on here is momentum.

over the break. Oh, so cool.

to actually get things done.

road bumps you hit

ADHD

When we talked to Courtney about that,

like one of the best ways to deal with your distractions and your focus and your productivity is just systems having systems in place, you know, and finding ways around whatever throwing up some sort of focus app on your computer or whether it's literally just putting your phone in the other pocket.

your spouse, even if they're a doctor of psychology, cannot Head on over to syntax.fm

folk. I, recently

I I don't know if this is getting too personal, but I know you you, Versus Node? That's what I just made. You made an extension to do this.

immersing myself in a little bit about how I work to try to improve things. Yeah. It

I I recently went and got that done, and, you know, it has got me thinking a little bit about the way my brain works. So I've definitely been subscribing to some ADHD podcasts and then, paths in the grass where people have walked that, like, hey. That's the that's the way people are actually walking. But if you if you walk a path Repeatedly, it erodes away at the ground, and your brain kinda works the same. Right? Those desired neuropathways

ingrained with their get that thing crossed off the list. Make sure the highest priority.

If something is slightly different, then you have A chance to sort of catch yourself. Yeah. It's kind of like, you know, the

like, deeply Like, I I So Windows folks, if you are listening to this,

become further ingrained, which is one reason why, You know, as people get older, you always hear that, like, people get more, CSS attitude? It looks like it. Stuff. It's it's pretty pretty amazing, and I you Node, and one of the things I did is I changed the fonts, but I, like, made the Bos smaller, and I got rid of the top bar, and I moved.

and and grow through our entire life.

there's like a subreddit. I think it's called, like, desired path or something. Yeah. Desired path. Just, Yeah. It's just like you could see No. Okay.

are the habits that we continue to cultivate And for me, it's funny because in dance, right, as a as a dancer, I tend to always practice the things I'm good at And the things I like to practice, and, therefore, those things continue to get better. The things that I don't is wrong. Let me fix CSS thing real quick while I'm here. The next thing you know, you've forgotten what

You know, I know, Wes, Sorry. I was gonna ask you I've been seeing on Instagram, you've been hacking a little app for habit tracking? Yeah. So habit tracking is, like, Big time for me. And and for the most part, I've always used this app called streaks on Bos. But you know what, man? Habit tracking apps, hey, it can block off time. It can make it so that I'm not available to other people at various points. It can tell me is the baddest guy around in terms of keeping me on track. Why? Because,

And so for me, you know, I'm focusing pretty hard on the habits that I'm doing, my processes, the way that I I work.

to hit this stuff and to change change the the way you're working right now? If you go to Habit path.ioforward/waitlist.

at least the keypads. Sometimes the sensors will also have 12 volts, but the keypads themselves will have 12 volts running to them.

USB converters. And those are very popular because DNS, import into my Things app, and then I can drag them up and down But

And then you go on Amazon and buy one of these

at least in in Canada and the States. And then you could just plug a tablet into that, and you're you have unlimited power.

so you could just twist the wires together. It's low voltage, so it's allowed to be in your wall, Another thing that you can use to And When you change the CSS file, it would inject it into

I was a guy

And there were no user accounts. Everything was just saved to the database as a habit, and then I got so many people saying, hey. I would use this. The interface looks great.

I have a waitlist right now. I'm gonna open this up for the public because I initially just made it for myself,

Next thing you know, just Flossing all the time.

I I rolled my own auth. I wrote my auth from scratch by hand, and now I have user accounts.

didn't consistently floss at some point in my life. I'd gone through life, like, being like, yeah. I'll occasionally floss. You know? I I brush my teeth the toys a day. You know? I'm I'm I was good doing all the other things, but flossing for some reason Wes hard for me. I don't know why. So I set up a a a, habit tracker, started doing my streaks.

For some reason, people are like, this has to be a a Node a year subscription for Habitatrade. Me a hate joke.

And sometimes you have to try to pave good neural pathways, and sometimes you have bad Sanity. Like for me, I'll tell you right now JS I can mindlessly type in TweetDeck maybe I don't need this many

electricity to go through.

without even noticing. Sometimes the closed TweetDeck and open up a new tab and just type deck and go directly to it. And the same thing with, like, you might just pull out your phone when you have a split second. That's because your brain is smooth.

You know, you got little huddles and whatnot,

So figuring out how do I interrupt those paths, whether it's

the physical

There's, like, several of these. Either way, The the best to do app is the one that you actually use. You know? For me, for a long time, pen and paper was it. I really liked and I used the remarkable E Ink tablet to do this, you know, just physically checking things off. The only problem is is, like, if you have to dos that persist for multiple days, it's harder to track, and it's harder to assign values and have them Scott and stuff like that. My wife loves

Like we've mentioned, you know, procrastinating and things like You gotta get the ball rolling. You just gotta start. Starting's the hardest part. Everybody always says that. Yeah. That doesn't make it any easier. That's the thing I hate. You Node, people are always like, Starting's the hardest part. You just gotta start, but, like, that doesn't that doesn't make it any easier to start. That just makes me upset that you're saying that. You know? It it makes it easier to do the hard things Once you've done it 3 or 4 times, that momentum and that that good feeling you get from when you accomplish and finish something,

and then I, I know people really like the app Things So, That's still a problem. I'll tell you what. Even the ones that are, like, branded as being like, you can do do your own you know, just bring in your own auth. They're Yeah. The hard part with auth is that they they all wanna control your database. They all wanna do this or that, and they're all trying to do too much. I'd rather have one that just takes care of, like, some of the intermediary steps, and maybe I'll open source some stuff that I'm doing there. Yeah. I was thinking about that the other day, and, unfortunately, I think it's going to get even harder with passkeys Snooze, the other ones. I use an app called Superhuman. A lot of apps do this. I any kind of email app that you can do to news and email will will really improve your inbox because that takes care of the stuff that I don't need to do this right now, but I don't want it in front of me. Them. Yeah. And then the next time you open your email app, hey. That's all the stuff you gotta look at, and everything that's that's not there is, you know, not something you gotta worry about. I I need that.

So,

What do I do? I I take care of emails I need to take care of today.

it's just gonna clutter. So track the stuff you're actually interested in doing. I'm doing, like, a dry January. I wanna track that. Gonna I'm gonna put that in my my my tracking app because it's something that I want to see the progress on. If you're motivated by streaks, An app the app called Streaks is actually really good for this. I'm going to add streak tracking to my app eventually, but, you know, Streaks can be really effective for anything So, you know, what stuff. What do you what do you do for habits? Well, you know, I I really like to track my habits.

Yeah. That's another thing JS, like, pnpm down your editor as much as you possibly can. Yeah.