How to increase your productivity: reduce the speed of a connection

On the one hand, good communication and fast Internet - is everything! Especially if your work depends on the quality and speed of communication. But even here there are pitfalls that threaten productivity. The high speed allows us to keep open at the same time a huge number of tabs with different sites. Some relate to our work, and some - not at all.

Therefore, sometimes in order to get rid of temptations, and finally do their job, you just need to reduce speed;)

If you are far away from civilization (in the forest, in the village, etc.) and use a 3G-modem if not sitting on a mobile Internet 2G, then no effort to do anything.

But what if you have a home dedicated channel at breakneck speed? Do not move the same on the new package at a slower rate due to several hours of heavy work ?!

Clay Dzhoson in his blog The Information Diet divided checked on personal experience productivity secrets.

There are lots of tools that are in varying degrees, restrict our access to the internet, and some have disconnected it at a given time by us. On our blog is not a single review of these programs, and this post, we'll add a little more to the common fund.

IN Rescue Time (RescueTime - one of the best taymtrekerov) You can determine the time at which you will be denied access. If you use FreedomWhereas for the resumption of communication you will need to restart your computer.

To reduce the speed you can really come in handy Slowly App ($ 3.99) for OS X, NetLimiter Windows and cross-platform users Charlesproxy (Linux).

And as a bonus - a rather interesting email application SaneBox.

SaneBox bit like the Priority Inbox from Google. The app filters your emails on the basis of what you are reading in the first place, and what can wait. As a result, letters that do not require your immediate attention, filtered and placed in a «SaneLater» folder. Toward the end of the day you'll get something like an electronic digest with pending letters. This application is compatible with GMail, Yahoo, AOL, Outlook and IMAP email providers.

And you practice limit themselves access to distracting websites you are disabled at the time of hard work from the internet? And how do you manage to beat their temptations? :)