That helps a lot!
I have went even as far as separating the work - side thing by using different browsers.

But that does not help very much with recovering from distractions. Having breadcrumb info…

Do you find it easy to switch between projects/clients or hats?

How do you do it?
Did you search for a way to automate the switch?

Is there a way for IT professionals to get more out of their work? If so, what are your favorite productivity tools that are currently available?

Hello, good question!

I've notice the same pattern works best.
Get approval from management to try out in a small team. Then as the service proves useful, more people will adopt it.

Even in a…

Would be useful if you would add to the description more than the link to the article.

Have not tried DayBatching so thanks for sharing. I am interested in giving it a try.
All the best 👋

The problem with RescueTime and other tools for me was the lack of pro-activity. They allow you to monitor and improve your time-management, and the way you work by providing some kind of "mirror…

I've seen a post on Quora about this. Seems as we get older, our brain's plasticity gets impacted negatively. This results in increase effort needed to switch between hats/works.

Does that resonate?

So what you found to work is remove all distractions and force yourself to do it. Either till you go over the blockage or you decide to change environments?

( Smaller tasks are indeed one…

Thanks for sharing what you are doing to deal with chaos.

Interesting that you mentioned you didn't realize you've struggled with this before somebody pointed it out.
How did you get convinced that…

how come you created this branch like structure to organize yourself?

Been reading on Gloria Mark's research about distractions and the penalties of context switching. (It takes on average 23min to refocus)

Supposedly the older we are, the harder it is to switch…

Could you expand on productivity being a byproduct?
Would love to understand better what you mean.