What is the most effective way to manage time and attention during work hours?

Question

Time Management

Hello
With the transition to remote work, I constantly experience problems with attention control. Recently, I decided to turn off notifications on my phone for all applications, I use the "tomato method", but attention is still difficult to control.
I work at home by myself - no one distracts, only I am myself

Who faced a similar problem, advise ways, working methods for concentrating on one thing. I will be very grateful.

Answer 1

I myself am constantly distracted by the toaster, so it is relevant for me.
If you are distracted, then other activities are more interesting for you than work.
I have worked out such a technique and have been successfully working with it for a couple of days:
1. We cut down everything that is possible. Notifications and all distracting sites.
We put the phone away and on silent mode.
2. We clean the workplace from all debris.
In addition to monitors, mice and keyboards, there should be nothing on the table.
3. We block all sites that are distracting.
4. We start the daily routine. And we stick to it. You need to bring sleep and work into it. Add meals and everything. We fill the void with something like "watch youtube", "read habr", "play DotA"
5. We remove the routine if possible. All tools should be set up so that you don't have to fight with IDE
6. Adding variety.
For example, it is very difficult for me to give all sorts of tasks to fix bugs.
Now, when I find the cause of a bug, I break it down into several small tasks and write a test for each.
Each such test becomes an intermediate point for me, and thanks to a fairly small breakdown, the brain does not start to "get bored" and constantly sees that some kind of progress is taking place.
I do not advise you to force yourself, because over time you will begin to hate your job so much and burn out.

Answer 2

Change jobs to interesting ones. He himself has to force himself to be distracted by food and sleep.

Answer 3

You need to determine why you are working at all. If you don’t like the work, then no super-methods of time management will help.