I use this Firefox feature for floating video, always playing in the corner of one of the monitors.
> The Picture-in-Picture feature allows you to pop videos out of their webpages into floating, always on top, windows, so you can watch while continuing to work in other tabs.
When I'm working, I only watch in my peripherals, if at all. Mostly I like listening to the film soundtrack, effects, and more or less indistinct human voices.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, I focus better this way, compared to having "silence" - because I have sensitive hearing, any slight or distant sound in the real world environment distracts my attention. I wear noise-cancelling headphones, whether any audio/video is playing or not.
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I have a little shell script for taking notes from the terminal command line. I use it throughout the day to to chronicle the endless number of ideas that flow through the brain. The notes go into a plain-text/Markdown journal file.
Before I started this practice a few years ago, I used to feel anxious that so many good ideas and thoughts were getting lost. Now, I just dump everything into notes as fast as I can type them in. Then I can set them aside, forget them and move on with my brainstorming.
Occasionally I review the journal, and copy the best parts into project or subject-based Markdown files.
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Emails only - checking once a day, or 2~3 times a week. No telephone, text or video chat.
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Edit: I haven't been diagnosed with ADHD, but I can relate to other comments in this thread - so might be leaning in that direction. Might also be a bit of an autist.
> The Picture-in-Picture feature allows you to pop videos out of their webpages into floating, always on top, windows, so you can watch while continuing to work in other tabs.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-picture-picture-f...
When I'm working, I only watch in my peripherals, if at all. Mostly I like listening to the film soundtrack, effects, and more or less indistinct human voices.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, I focus better this way, compared to having "silence" - because I have sensitive hearing, any slight or distant sound in the real world environment distracts my attention. I wear noise-cancelling headphones, whether any audio/video is playing or not.
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I have a little shell script for taking notes from the terminal command line. I use it throughout the day to to chronicle the endless number of ideas that flow through the brain. The notes go into a plain-text/Markdown journal file.
Before I started this practice a few years ago, I used to feel anxious that so many good ideas and thoughts were getting lost. Now, I just dump everything into notes as fast as I can type them in. Then I can set them aside, forget them and move on with my brainstorming.
Occasionally I review the journal, and copy the best parts into project or subject-based Markdown files.
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Emails only - checking once a day, or 2~3 times a week. No telephone, text or video chat.
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Edit: I haven't been diagnosed with ADHD, but I can relate to other comments in this thread - so might be leaning in that direction. Might also be a bit of an autist.