For a long time, I am looking for a way to be more productive as a programmer. I decided to organize in structure valuable ideas and practices I found. Hopefully, they will be useful for you too.

Below is the first part: habits.

• Write. Write documentation, notes, your ideas, and useful tips. Here is the list of most popular tools you can use:
  • Notion/Evernote/OneNote/bear.app
  • emacs/orgmode
  • Markdown files as a basis for something more complicated like, for example Zettelkasten
• Focus on one thing at a time
• Do small tasks immediately
• Sleep enough
• Spaced repetition for efficient learning
• Record and publish or even better, broadcast your coding sessions. I didn’t try it yet, but I can easily imagine how much discipline it could add to my workflow. OBS Studio is a popular and excellent tool for a record such sessions.
• Use procrastination against yourself. Just try to open IDE and write a few lines of code, then a few more. Then you probably will catch yourself on coding for an hour or two. That’s the trick.
• Use data and statistics to analyze your productivity. Be creative in that. Here is an example of a very creative approach to do that.
• Create more than consume
• Dive deeper into the problem
• Automate repetitive tasks

Everybody is welcome to get me your feedback and extend the list.