One thing I've done to increase my productivity after reading a comment from a Hacker News post [1] is recording my work sessions on OBS.
The benefits for me are two-fold:
1) It keeps me accountable while working and
2) I can rewatch my work sessions and recall my thought process from a future me perspective.
It's amazing how much you forget about a day, but by watching the recordings after the fact, you recall the micro lessons you learned during your work sessions and you have the opportunity to encode these lessons into your long-term memory.
The benefits for me are two-fold:
1) It keeps me accountable while working and
2) I can rewatch my work sessions and recall my thought process from a future me perspective.
It's amazing how much you forget about a day, but by watching the recordings after the fact, you recall the micro lessons you learned during your work sessions and you have the opportunity to encode these lessons into your long-term memory.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32215277#32215958