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by Sohakes 3620 days ago
> The only trick that really stuck to me is to write down on a piece of paper where I'm at during a context switch.

Oh, maybe I do that too? I'm not sure if I blame this on my memory, but sometimes to do X I need to do Y and then Z (specially when starting a project), and then I forget why I was doing Z in the first place. I'm using Trello for doing things at work, and after a "Doing" column, I put a "Doing now" that usually has only one task to simulate the writing in a piece of paper. Sometimes it turns out into a "stack" of tasks with the switchs. It's usually really short term tasks. Not sure if you are talking about something like that.

Before that I used to write in my notebook what my task was, so I don't lose focus.