HACKER Q&A
📣 jenever

Any good productivity tools out there?


I'm not talking about calendar or notes management like Gcal or Notion, something that actually helps you lock in and/or promotes deep work.


  👤 ednite Accepted Answer ✓
Not sure about digital tools, but I’ve leaned more into analog methods, specifically the Pomodoro technique.

I started with short intervals and gradually built up to 90-minute and sometimes longer focus sessions (which I wouldn’t recommend for everyone). For most people, 20 minutes of focused work followed by a 5-minute break is a great entry point. It’s simple, low-tech, and surprisingly effective at training your brain to lock in.


👤 lilerjee
Deep work, like the processes below:

Focus on a topic or multiple topics

Break down it or them into more specific topics

Think about every specific topics

Break down a specific topic into more little specific topics if necessary

Sometime you need to move and combine them

So you just need the better ways of thinking and some tools to help you in the process.


👤 cebert
A pad of paper.