For the past year I've spent mornings with the WiFi off—amazing how much reliable deep states of focus are for me that way.
Great for writing, sketching, data analysis… but Figma! Figma makes me turn the WiFi on! Amazing what a difference that makes in how deep I get (or not).
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I was really excited to learn this morning that if I turn the WiFi on for just a minute and open the Figma document, then I can turn it off again and it'll save the offline work and sync up later. Will be interesting to see in my working journals how much diff that makes.
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Funny how much of a monkey I am; so helpless. Sure, yes, many years of meditation make me more likely to notice grasping impulses… but having the WiFi on is still so much worse for a certain kind of deliberate work than having it off.
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twitter.com/zhayitong/stat This is a good strategy! I do this too! But, I'll tell myself, I need to gather some visual reference… I need to see how X app does this interaction. Then 2 hours later…
No! I don't! If I *couldn't*, I'd be fine without. But be cause I *can*…
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I use the self control app and block pretty much anything other than Google docs and Figma
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I like setting timers for this sort of thing—OK, fine, I need to look at reference Y. If, five minutes from now, I still think I need that, then OK, I'm allowed!
I pair that with an Alfred command that turns the WiFi on for a fixed duration, then off again ("wifi 3" for 3 min)
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Working journal? Tell me more
I've been doing timestamped entries throughout the day with Roam, but interested to here what works for you
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Roughly a straight-up pomodoro log: timestamps at start, description of what I did during the period, noting distractions.
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It should be doable to make a shortcut (see: “one sec” app on ios) that shortly opens up your wifi whenever you open figma (desktop app) and then closes it after some mins. It would make the whole process feel much smoother