I've been writing code for long time. No tool or methodology has helped me to become more focused, organized, productive and predictable as Org-mode. I do not start a task without clocking in or starting new org-pomodoro cycle. I take notes whenever I encounter a problem, get an idea or discover something new. Every morning I read my notes from the previous day, check how I spent my time. I'm not the smartest developer in my team nor the most productive. However, without Emacs and org-mode I don't think I would be even working in the same team.
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I'll second that. And before anyone asks, it doesn't have to be org mode (although org mode is the best tool I've used). I have approximated the same with markdown when I've been trying to show how to do it to people who don't like emacs.
One thing I'll say is that it might not be for everyone. I attempted to show several people how I use org mode to organise myself and quite a lot of people are uncomfortable organising themselves. They seem to get distracted when they think too much about what they are doing and have trouble maintaining their concentration. It is actually the opposite for me. If I don't have my notes, I'm off thinking about what I want to have for dinner, how to save the world, wondering why you can't make a hard cheese from yogurt, etc, etc. Speaking of which... time to go to work...
* - In case you were wondering, pizza, you can't but you can do your best to make it a bit better, and you need rennet to split the kappa casein from the casein micelles in order for the casein micelles to stick together using dissolved calcium and phosphate -- yogurt solidifies by reducing the pH to the point where the casein is at it's ioselectric point (pH ~4.6) and it can glob together (but never as tightly as if you remove the kappa casein).