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# Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Your Thoughts
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## Metadata
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- Author: [[Charles Féval]]
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- Full Title: Use a Work Journal to Recover Focus Faster and Clarify Your Thoughts
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- Category: #articles
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- Document Tags: [[journaling]] [[notetaking]] [[productivity]]
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- URL: https://fev.al/posts/work-journal/
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- Archive: https://web-archive.alecodes.page/bookmarks?bf=1&search=&title=Use%20a%20Work%20Journal%20to%20Recover%20Focus%20Faster%20and%20Clarify%20Your%20Thoughts
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> [!tldr]
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> The author shares the benefits of using a work journal to improve focus and clarify thoughts while dealing with interruptions and distractions. By writing down tasks, thoughts, and plans, the author found it easier to recover focus and continue work more efficiently. Keeping track of progress and ideas in a journal helped the author stay organized and regain momentum when switching between tasks.
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## Highlights
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 [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j93tyz3xadwbjh1jf1y96phr))
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I started listing all the commands I was running, and their results. Writing down my train of thoughts, the things I was doing and what I wanted to do next. And I have been doing that for the past 3-4 months. I feel like I invented something new. It helps me think more clearly, and restore the context so, so much faster when I switch between things. [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j93v4f4yq4ycdpcy2sysn9mg))
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Write notes of what you’re doing and what you’re thinking. When you drop the pen and get back at it, read the last bit. That’s it. [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j93v5t0hfpz3knh2425ne5ep)) [[productivity]] [[notetaking]]
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After all, I’m writing pages of text, of which I will never read more than a fraction. But that’s not the point. The point is structure, and the point is caching. [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j93v72kryd88jmrpdj4mqxce)) [[notetaking]] [[productivity]]
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