[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.

[jenever]

Completely agree. I've found in my workflow and my friends' that when you go an sit down to accomplish this and get in flow state, it's very easy to be distracted especially when the task is digital. Every tab switch, every prolonged digging for some some data or sentence in my emails, old tabs, a document, the context switches keep chipping away at my focused state. Do you have experience/thoughts on this?

[lilerjee]

- Change work environment

  Close unused apps
  Focus on the current work, and open the useful apps for it only
  

- Change the environment completely

  Go outside for a walk
  Ride a bike
  Go to a quiet place, e.g. Library

- Improve your workflow

  Thinking (at least the rough outline and flow) is the first before any work.
  
  If you have a clear overview of your work, you know how to do it and what work to do,
  and your mind will focus on them.

  Thinking while walking, riding, etc.

  Write the results of your thinking

[lilerjee]

Focus on the current work content, other than the tools, context, or other things outside of work