[PreachSoup]

It really depends. This is just one of the tools that might or might not for you. I think it's more important to know your goal and yourself. In this case, you want to increase your productivity. As long as you can reach your goal, it's good enough.

Personally it doesn't work well for me because I need clean separations from work and be in the prolonged work mode would cause burnout. I have no problem to get started in the next morning with my own routine. It's more important for me to put things down and rest everyday.

On a meta level, experiment with what might work for you and iterate on your own work flow - it's exactly like TDD programming but for yourself

[alentred]

I am with you on this one. I, for my part, cannot stop unless I finish some logical subset of the work. Leaving the work incomplete or with bugs would make me sleep worse, and I would spend lots of time the next day trying to understand what I was trying to achieve. Even more so in hobby projects, where I might come back in a couple of days or weeks.

What I do, though, is leaving a TODO where I think I need to continue the next time. Works wonders for me.

In the end, I think it is about leaving some kind of an "anchor", but the exact kind depends on your personality I guess.

[PreachSoup]

Yep. I think ppls' brains are wired differently naturally.

[gowld]

Do you have trouble putting work down if it's unfinished?

[PreachSoup]

Depends. But I would actively put it down and mentally block it and go to sleep when the time comes.