Practical systems for notes, decisions, and focus
Tomorrow’s first half hour will be spent reconstructing where today’s draft actually stopped. You’ll sift through open tabs, scan half-written notes, and try to remember the half-formed argument you were building before your last meeting ran 20 minutes over. That wasted time adds up fast, cutting into the deep work window you guard so carefully…
A coworker’s “quick thought” is already a new document, and the sentence you were writing is gone. You were 22 minutes into a 45-minute deep work block focused on drafting a client project scope, and the detour has already pushed you off the rhythm you spent 10 minutes building. Even if you toggle back to…
The writing tab is already sharing the window with four articles you opened “for a second.” Half of them are unrelated to the report you’re drafting, pulled up after a stray thought about a new productivity tool and a recipe you wanted to save for dinner. You’ve already lost seven minutes skimming content that won’t…