Welcome to Syntax. Today we have a episode for you on Productivity Tool. So these are both the

apps but also the Y and the how behind, how Scott and I will tackle different things from password management to do's

snippets, mind mapping, writing little scripts, email, habits, things like that, focus. We've talked about this a few times over the years, but I'm constantly

evolving my own, and I know Scott you are as well, just constantly trying new things, seeing what sticks. So I thought we'd go through what we're

working on with with productivity tools and our approaches to things that help us

get a decent amount done I think I wouldn't say I'm the most productive person in the world, but I have four kids and managed to get a job done, so I feel like I have something to say here.

Yeah, I would say productivity is one of those things that slides on a

scale for me day to day. I do try to always be very productive. I do take it

seriously and it's something that for me, I maybe is just because of how my brain works. If I don't take it seriously, I end up just not accomplishing very much. And when I do take it seriously, I end up accomplishing a lot. And it's not a means of like

grind set getting things done, but it's in a mindset of like being accomplished and learning a lot and you know really feeling like you had something productive at the end of the day

I think is a good life hack to feeling satisfied with with your work in general.

Yeah, if you have those wins in life, then you feel good about yourself and it just kind of snowballs, snowballs out from there, right?

And honestly, a lot of the stuff on this list is just simply systems and tools that help me get

through stuff I either don't want to do or want to get through quicker because

at the end of the day I just want to be coding and there's certainly lots of productivity hacks in coding itself, but the rest of life sometimes can get in the way.

So if you can make that easier on yourself, then you're going to have a better time.

Yeah, and to me, as you'll probably hear in this episode, I think systems really matter a lot in this regard and like having systems that work for you because even let's say I'm doing the dishes right which I've grown to love doing the dishes in some way I get to listen to my podcast or more recently I've been listening to

audio books in fact I started listening to all the original James Bond audio books

and I just started at the beginning of the series I don't listen to much fiction ever. So for me this is like a big task.

And I'm three books in now and I'm like, oh this is a great little time. I get a little

uh fiction book time while I'm doing the dishes and my sister, I don't want to spend very much time with it so my systems are all in place so that I can finish that up as fast as possible

you know clean the rest of the downstairs and whatever so that way I can get on with my

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