📚 Part 1: Task Switching Resource Library at a Glance
A quick glance at the research based experimental options mentioned in the blog that you can adapt and make your own. Again, these are invitations, not prescriptions. Try one or two, keep what helps, combine them, be creative with it, make it your own!
- 1. 🔫 Pre-load the next task before you stop the current task:
- 2. 🍞 “Park-and-resume” breadcrumbs
- 3. ⏯️ Buffers between tasks
- 4. 🔎 1-minute switch micro-routine (mini self-check-in)
- 5. 🚧 Zone your spaces
- 6. 🙆 90-second body reset
- 7. 🔋 Build your own “Dopamenu”
- 8. 👯 Cue the next task with habit pairing/stacking:
- 9. 😮💨 Mindful overlays (low-demand only)
- 🤖 Extra: AI-Assistive Prompt Ideas
🔦 Part 2: Guiding Steps to Apply Task Switching Tools
Just some possible guiding steps to apply the task shifting tools, please adapt these based on what works best for you!
- Step 1️⃣: Goals → Tasks
- Step 2️⃣: Challenges/Barriers
- Step 3️⃣: Switch Cues
- Step 4️⃣: Experiment Log
- Step 5️⃣: Self-Check-Ins