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Prioritizing notifications and minimizing distractions
From the course: Video Post Productivity
Prioritizing notifications and minimizing distractions
- [Instructor] Previously, I talked about the concept of time blocking, and how it can help you skyrocket your productivity by allowing you to focus intensely on a single task, and eliminate outside distractions. But inevitably, if you decide that you're going to experiment with time blocking, the first question you'll probably have is, well, how the heck do I prioritize all of the different notifications that I get all day long? My solution is generally to go dark in airplane mode, and just disappear for 60 minutes at a time. But for some people, that isn't a practical solution. So, in this lesson, I'll briefly break down my suggestions for prioritizing your various notifications. Step one, is going through your notifications, and making a list of all of the most frequently used notifications, and for a lot of people, this will be Facebook, Twitter, text messages, chat apps, all the different ways that you're going to hear dings, chimes, and noises of any kind whatsoever, that are…
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Intro to Time Blocking For Editors5m 12s
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Apps to help you time block5m 56s
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Organizing your daily and weekly calendar to avoid crunch time5m 24s
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Browser extensions and apps to maximize focus7m 3s
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Prioritizing notifications and minimizing distractions4m 37s
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Saving time with TextExpander7m 54s
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Automating with Hazel6m 35s
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