My Kanban Productivity Workflow

This is the method that I use to organize my week and stay focused with what I am doing.
Check out more of my articles on Colbycheeze.com/blog
Or you can read my unorganized tri-weekly dev diary - colbycheeze.blogspot.com
--- Productivity Links --
Kanbanflow.com
www.amazon.com/Pomodoro-Technique-Illustrated-Pragmatic-Life/dp/1934356506
trello.com/
github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

[@colbycheeze]

Oops, didn't check the camera angle so my head was chopped off the whole vid. I'll try harder next time :P

[@YukalayleeGames]

Just stumbled upon your page after watching you back in the day and honestly this is pretty spectacular

[@SimonThePr0]

Your determination and mindset are inspiring. Waste no time

[@jsonify]

Lots of useful info in here. Thanks for posting your workflow!

[@yanganifesto]

I sometimes get overwhelmed with I am supposed to do. This is awesome Colby!

[@Koxtrinus]

Wow colby, im really inspired now, do more videos, i am really really impressed by your workflow

[@lolbajset]

Damn, I wish I had your motivation and productivity

[@_benstr]

Great workflow advice and tools

[@rastovicfilip]

Kanban seems really cool, I'm giving it a try

[@seickly1]

u were my most favourite streamer of poe i hope u decide to come back one day :) gl on programming tho

[@JaiiMe82]

if you are still using vimwiki, you can enable syntax highlighting for code blocks for multiple languages (:h vimwiki-option-nested_syntaxes.)

[@Arfurful]

I really enjoyed this bro. I'm the type of person who is really bad at managing time so I'm sure to give this a shot even if I don't intend to do programming. Oh not that I won't be interested in programming, curious as to what projects you will do

[@charlemana]

Try using the VimWiki Markdowns. In my view it’s better than the default

[@jdvalencia1]

Really good video! I also recommend Udacity its a really great learning programming website, although you will have to find the free ones because some actually make you pay fro the class but really good learning regardless.

[@AlexKovshovik]

Why are Todos between "In Progress" and "Done"? Isn't stuff moving from right to left: Eventually => Focus Items => Todos => In Progress => Done?

[@ambermeows150]

Hey colby! Thanks for sharing your productivity workflow. Really appreciate it. I'm implementing this to my productivity routine as well. I just finished install vim and vimwiki. I setup the plugin for it but how come when i access vimwiki i only see the directory? i see the branch ../ ./ .git/ autoload/ doc/ ftplugin/ sytanx/. How do i do this quickstep ww -- Open default wiki index file. and how do i open vimwiki? What i've been doing is this. In terminal type in "vim vimwiki" but all i see is the directory i stated above.

[@megoo401]

subbed!!

[@jaredacrean]

Vimwiki has built in syntax highlighting you can do something like this. just put what kind of code after the {{{ {{{python if NUM == 1: print(NUM) }}}

[@colbycheeze]

Good to know, so it basically works like Markdown. I haven't been using it lately tho, I have switched to using vim-mode in Atom due to the better eslint visuals and a few other things...I definitely miss a lot of the more powerful features of Vim (and also Atom can be kind of slow)

[@Notkn12]

how do you enable this new gmail view?

[@picosdrivethru]

I should try this, I'm a 3d/vfx artist and working on my portfolio, need to haul ass! thanks for sharing man. what kind of dev do you do?

[@artyomk5132]

Thanks for sharing! Have you reviewed other wikis (gollum, DokuWiki, TiddlyWiki, etc.)? Do you feel vimwiki get all you want?

[@ipponsuki]

Try org-mode, you might like it.

[@CaptainWumbo]

ipponsuki I started using org-mode too. As programmers all our tools are geared toward text manipulation, we're most comfortable writing code that parses text, we're happy when our tools are flexible and let us do what we want with them. I'm a VIM user, but I'm happy to have an emacs window to leverage org-mode, and EVIL gives me a normal mode to remap orghotkeys to something I like. The best part about org-mode is it's not a glorified list of todos, which I always found basically useless. It's note taking, deriving tasks from those notes, and adding references and relevant information alongside. + clocks and column view... It's a complete solution developed over 30 years, unlike these flavour of the month apps like evernote and meistertask. For me those apps are only for the highest level information that let's you communicate with your team. but they're really restrictive tools.

[@devious1gaming]

***** Great video. Thanks for these resources, they are very useful. How are things going with this now that a few months have passed?

[@markmiller8464]

I'm curious how much of this you are still using. As someone always trying new organization tools, I have found keeping things in multiple places creates lost efficiency in simply maintaining the various systems. I like the vimwiki approach as a fellow programmer and web developer, I end up living in the text editor anyway so keeping in one tool seems the most efficient. It's not as pretty as the other tools, but ultimately, the output of the system is what counts and not the system itself. I do like the pomodoro method for focus though and use an app on my Apple Watch.

[@colbycheeze]

Now that I work a lot with a team, I set us up to use Zenhub (similar ideas) and story points for tracking time. I use Focus@Will to time pomodoros since the music is perfect for keeping focus. Overall, similar ideas...different tools.

[@alex_4868]

Wheres the SCRUM

[@Nexuz667]

templar irl

[@rickykuang8637]

Hey Colby, first year programming student here. I've heard that a lot of people prefer to program on Linux or Mac OS as opposed to Windows. Why is that?

[@MMABeijing]

did u figure out by now?

[@forsyth4602]

Colby, how much you take from you productivity time with all the organizing stuff? Seems like a lot of time invested ...

[@colbycheeze]

Not really that much time, I just spend a little bit here and there and improve it over time. It saves time in the long run.

[@BulldogMindsetArchive]

Awesome workflow. We should chat sometime.

[@ThugStory1]

Could you possibly make a video on Recursion specifically in Java. We're learning it in our computer programming class and just find it a bit confusing.

[@LOLxUnique]

how do you come up with projects to make?

[@colbycheeze]

hussein debel Try to think about problems or things that are monotonous to you, and how you can solve that. You can also find project ideas by searching reddit and google. Another good idea would be to replicate one of your favorite sites like Twitter, Reddit, or Pinterest for example.

[@LOLxUnique]

In a sense, whatever we learn say a function or some algorithm we should try and find real world problem to solve using it?

[@ko95]

wim wiki: 5:15

[@megoo401]

which ketyboard are you using?

[@colbycheeze]

+forkdbloke Now days I use the WASD Code keyboard. Any mechanical keyboard is great IMO.

[@megoo401]

+Colby CheeZe Thank you!. Good to know great video. Am starting to make use of kanbanflow, just going through some youtube tutorial.. I have one question, am planning to create "Lifestyle" board where daily activities Task 1 - exercise for 2hrs Task 2 - Read a book for an hour is to be listed and REPEATED.. is there a way we can do this in kanbanflow? if you have sometime can you please explain

[@colbycheeze]

Alright so there are several ways you could track that if you need to. For habitual things, what I do now is have ONE document in my vimwiki journal that explains what I plan my routine to be. Rather than mark off as a todo list each day or w/e, I just do my best to follow the routine and reference the document if I forget or if I've changed it etc. (Ideally, your routines should become habit and not feel like a todo list that you have to look at) That's my recommendation. I've slowly been improving the way I manage tasks as well so I could possibly update even more now, but to sum up...you mostly want to make sure you are doing your MOST IMPORTANT task no matter what...keep those things prioritized and push all of the other "want to do" things into a list that doesn't bother you in the fact that it's long and incomplete. (if that makes sense)

[@nagzster]

:D

[@yukatree]

i feel like ur trying to avoid procrastinating by procrastinating a schedule. Just learn a programming language, stick to it till you can proficiently create code to solve any problem(with reasearch) then get a job in that.