Keep Your Most Important Things In Focus So You Can Find Ultimate Flow In Your Work
The Simple Way Tana Keeps Me Focused & In Flow Daily
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There is nothing more detrimental to finding flow in your digital systems than having to click around constantly to work on things.
It’s one of the main reasons I stopped using Notion. Everything was siloed. If I was working in my content hub, I couldn’t see my daily agenda easily. Too many of my most important things were out of site all the time.
This kind of task switching kills your flow & productivity instantly.
That’s why I created The Focus Sidebar in Tana
It’s an easy way to keep everything I reference throughout the day within easy reach. I use it to keep my agenda in focus throughout the day, work on notes side by side & keep ideas I want to marinate throughout the day in front of my mind.
Tana’s panel feature is perfect for bringing up two things side by side. Typically I have my Focus Sidebar open on the right hand side throughout the day and then I can navigate to wherever I need to in the main panel.
This means no jumping back into my day page to see my daily agenda, or check on my current Focus Sessions (how I track my time). I can easily keep the nodes I reference throughout the day in focus.
I tend to keep two kinds of notes in my Focus Sidebar:
Reference Items
These are items I reference constantly throughout the day & I want to see them all the time. Right now I have three reference items that I keep in focus.
1. My Focus Timer
This is a little tool I built to track my time in Tana. I simply enter what I’m working on in the Focus? Field and press Start Timer. The rest happens by magic through a Tana Command that inserts the current timestamp & changes the state to In Session.
The visual queue at the top of my sidebar is a great reminder of what I’m supposed to be working on at that…
