[ioddly]

1) I built an app to help me form habits on a daily basis: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations . Pretty simple, minimalistic, but having it open every time my computer does makes it low-friction to log all these things. There are loads of these; I wrote my own for fun and because I wanted to keep the information encrypted, locally.

2) I've started unplugging the internet. Like I literally pull the ethernet cord out of my computer and turn off my phone. I do it every night so that when I wake up, I code for about 4 hours without it. This has been the biggest boost to productivity and happiness I've had in a long time.

Two issues with this so far:

a) Sometimes I hit a wall where I need to look something up before I can proceed, but I've never run out of work that I do know how to do. So I just write it down to search for later and work on something else.

b) I'm not sure how this would work with paying clients, managers, and so on. So far I've only done this on my own projects, in between clients.