#### Top productivity hacks:
- [[GTD Concepts]]
- [[Getting Things Done by David Allen.pdf]]
- Improving memory
	- In a [2014 study](https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/Teaching/papers/MuellerAndOppenheimer2014OnTakingNotesByHand.pdf), researchers found that college students retained class information better when **taking notes longhand** rather than typing them out on their laptops. It had to do with how the brain encoded the information as they were taking it down; to put it simply, by writing the information down, the students were processing it rather than merely transcribing it, the researchers said.
- [[Clear Thinking]]
- [[Atomic habits]] 
- [[Scheduling breaks]]
- [[Journaling]]

##### How stress impacts decision making
[How Stress Impacts Decision Making | Walden University](https://www.waldenu.edu/online-masters-programs/ms-in-clinical-mental-health-counseling/resource/how-stress-impacts-decision-making)
1. Stress affects the ability to make new decisions and adapt to change
2. Chronic stress alters brain chemistry and leads to poor decision making
3. Stressful situations make daily decision making difficult
4. Decision making can lead to stress and fatigue -- Interesting to know that opposite is also true. Increased decision making caused higher stress in life. 
##### [[100 Productivity Hacks.pdf]]
1. Time boxing - focus on single task to achieve more and feel less stressed.
2. Prioritize - methodically and ruthlessly prioritize things in life, avoid being distracted by emails and alerts
3. Say no - stop trying to please everyone. Improve quality of your work by focusing on the important tasks and politely declining others.
4. Move - Get moving to avoid feeling lazy
5. Control your devices, including time spent on social media - Turn off notifications, don’t have your phone in sight, don’t touch it
6. To-do lists - to help with keeping track of prioritized work items

## Obsidian productivity
- [[Obsidian FAQ]]
- When to link notes: 
	- ![[Obsidian FolderVsLink.jpeg]]




### Apps
[[Obsidian FAQ]]
[[Markdown_Cheat_Sheet.pdf]]

### Attention span
Gloria Mark, Professor and author of “[Attention Span](https://www.harpercollins.com/products/attention-span-gloria-mark?variant=40346590117922),” 
- Average time people spend on a single screen was 150 seconds in 2004. 
- By 2012, the average time on a single task was 75 seconds. 
- By 2023 it’s down to about 47 seconds.