2017-10-26 Meeting Notes

How have you integrated deep work (focused work) into your daily routine so far?

Other thoughts about the retreat?

• Liked feeling good about ignoring slack - because focus time Icon was up
• Liked some of the tools Slack offers
• Need to get into the workflow of it.
• Physical way of alerting others about unavailability
• Dan hasn't had a chance to try it yet.
• Greg finds it challenging to decide on an ending time. He likes his focus time be in the morning.
• Synchronize calendar with Slack - apple script that Greg runs everyday. You could add a timer to it. There is a limitation because is can break the focus time if the timer runs out. Have keywords alerts set up.
• Scheduling focus time - for josh it's just ad hoc - on the lookout for focus time. Super effective this week.
• Idea to use something like LibAnswers and a shared calendar
• Could be a channel - but you don't put anything in there unless it's an emergency. And maybe we schedule people to monitor that?
• Focus time is not always a requirement. Josh notes that he would not know if he is going to have focus time until
• Upshot is that everyone is to figure out what kind of focus time schedule or implementation works best for them
  We will update our emergency contact list and