PTPL 067: My EDC is a Mother Ship and a Compact Explorer Pod (Photos)

PLUS Using habit fields to program your surroundings for focused work

Plain text, Paper, Less (PTPL) Productivity Digest, text-based image by the Author

Welcome! I’m Ellane, and this is a once-a-week summary of things that are helping me to simplify and future-proof my digital-analog workflow.

Habit Fields: shape your environment so that it can shape you

Thanks to Josh Spector’s For The Interested newsletter, I’ve learned a new term for a phenomenon I’ve been aware of for years. Habit Fields are the behavioural associations we make with the things and places around us.

Great suggestion: don’t relax with social media in your work chair! Instead, deliberately get up and move to a designated down-time spot. This way you’ll be more successful at training yourself to stay focused when at your work station.

This somewhat obliquely reminds me of the time travel trick I use to help me get things done when I’m having trouble being motivated: rephrase the task as if it was already done. 

This To Do List Hack Has My Rebellious Brain Actually Wanting to Get Things Done!

Hand writing my plain text is great therapy

I recently wrote about how I’m writing …