A Productivity Framework for Developers

I think one of the keys is having solid blocks of time, if I have an hour or two without interruptions I can get a lot done.<p>It&#x27;s the stopping and starting, people coming by, checking email, getting a text message.<p>I&#x27;ve been using the tab snooze chrome plugin to snooze gmail so it&#x27;s only in my tabs every hour or so.<p>Blocking news and social sites in your hosts file, helps in case you wander over to a time waster of a URL. Mine redirect to Trello.com to remind me to focus.<p>Also listening to up tempo music with few lyrics helps, listening to a track on repeat can really focus my attention.<p>I also use the pomodoro method with the Tomato Ticker osx app.<p>That seems to help focusing on lots of small tasks, if a task is longer than 25 minutes and I&#x27;m plugged in I just keep going.<p>Also sometimes a goal is nice for larger chunks of work, get this knocked out and then get that game you&#x27;ve been wanting, lunch at your favorite restaurant, or take the afternoon off etc.<p>Most of these are handled by various apps but if you could integrate them together that would be a plus.

I&#x27;m not exactly sure what you are trying to build, it sounds a little vague.<p>But I can tell you which application has helped my productivity the most - Slack. Communication is the biggest roadblock for my developer experience. Unclear specs, asymmetric expectations, etc. Slack has significantly improved the ease and speed I can get feedback from teammates &#x2F; product owners.

My suggestion is to use it to increase the productivity of two people (you, and perhaps a friend or colleague) and then share your findings.

What are you building it in?