- Has it ever happened to you that you took your phone or laptop to accomplish some task & the currently opened windows put you in an unproductive blackhole?
- GUIs are a mess full of recall value sans priority. The thing is we only perform better if we focus on one task at a time & GUI suggests you (subconsciously) many tasks.
- Initially, I made another workspace in my Macbook but then it got just as cluttered and eventually I figured out it was the GUIs fault.
- The colours are too shiny & the notifications + tabs tell you again & again that you could be doing more or better things.
- I don’t use a task manager app when I want to focus because of too many colours & it’s too suggestive.
- This distraction is mentioned in the book Deep Work as “Context Switch” and the effect of this is called “Attention Residue”. Both of which are associated with Shallow work.
- So, I’ve made a rule now. Whenever I want to focus, I move away from GUI to CLI.
- The best thing about CLI is nothing happens until I do it. There’s no suggestion but only wait for my instructions.