Focus Tips
Cannot Focus During Research
Gather information without drowning in tabs.
The Problem
You start researching a topic and open forty tabs, follow links sideways, and lose your original question. Hours later you have read widely but concluded nothing, and the actual deliverable is no closer.
Strategies to Overcome It
- 1Write your research question before opening anything.
- 2Limit yourself to 5 open tabs at once.
- 3Take notes in one doc, not in your head.
- 4Set a timebox: research ends at X, writing begins.
- 5Save extras to read later instead of opening now.
Your 2-Minute Action
Write your single research question at the top of a notes doc, then open only sources that answer it. Capture answers, ignore the rest.