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# [10 Tips on How Developers Can Increase Their Productivity 🔥](https://beyond-average.hashnode.dev/10-tips-on-how-developers-can-increase-their-productivity?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Sometimes lines of code don’t come easy and you are unable to concentrate. Here are ten tips from software developers on what helps them stay focused.

Apr 18, 2021 · 5 min read · beyond-average.hashnode.dev  
Updated Mar 23, 2022  
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## Written by

[Anastasia](https://hashnode.com/@coffeestasia)

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## Responses 3

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[James Downell](https://hashnode.com/@jamesdownell)

[May 29, 2021](https://hashnode.com/posts/10-tips-on-how-developers-can-increase-their-productivity/607c4e9beb2bd30d2d227966/comment/60b20b419b1e2e1dccbce533)

Great tips, thank you!

[Manthankumar Satani](https://hashnode.com/@itsmnthn)

[Apr 19, 2021](https://hashnode.com/posts/10-tips-on-how-developers-can-increase-their-productivity/607c4e9beb2bd30d2d227966/comment/607dbad1eb2bd30d2d229c85)

Great piece of article, Learned few things and got inspired to do for things that I know and was avoiding.

[Sebastien Dubois](https://hashnode.com/@dSebastien)

[Apr 19, 2021](https://hashnode.com/posts/10-tips-on-how-developers-can-increase-their-productivity/607c4e9beb2bd30d2d227966/comment/607db2ecc99e200d08f7f20d)

Great tips!

I've shared _a ton_ of ideas in Volume 1 of my [Dev Concepts collection](https://gumroad.com/l/DevConcepts-Part-01-SoftwareCraft):

-   Learn to type FAST (80+ WPMs)
-   Master your Operating System: its shortcuts, how to manage processes, how to navigate the file systems, etc
-   Learn IDE shortcuts (create/rename files, extract methods, classes, functions, implement/override/refactor methods, etc)
-   Automate code formatting, and anything else that wastes time and brain cycles
-   Write tests
-   Use the Terminal and [master aliases](https://itnext.io/bash-aliases-are-awesome-8a76aecc96ab) to automate repetitive tasks and type less
-   Use mind mapping, diagrammatic reasoning & problem structuring techniques to analyze problems & tasks
-   Create mental models to better understand what you're doing
-   Practice practice practice!
-   Contribute to open source to learn from great developers and improve
-   Learn to search efficiently
-   Use design thinking, 6 thinking hats and similar techniques to increase your creativity
-   Structure your work and tasks (create yourself a system to be super organized & efficient); Read about GTD
-   Estimate tasks using relative weights to better compare them
-   Prioritize work regularly (focus on urgent & important)
-   Plan your days ahead
-   Build solid habits
-   Become a morning person & focus on the most important task as soon as you can (highlight for the day -- miracle morning & Make time techniques)
-   Manage your time. Learn about techniques like Pomodoro, use a time timer to visualize time
-   Work in a structured manner
-   Focus (for real!)
-   Focus on outcomes rather than on details
-   Take advantage of downtime to improve (learn new things, contribute to open source, etc)
-   Reflect on work regularly (identify your weaknesses)
-   Broaden your horizons and learn about architecture, software design, back-end, front-end, infrastructure, etc
-   Master all the general concerns (e.g., error handling, code quality, logging, performance, i18n, l10n, encoding, caching, how to fix bugs, source control management, security, etc)
-   Find your Ikigai and stay motivated
-   Have fun

And there's a ton more in there. Hope this helps someone out there!

If you're curious, you can learn more about my project over here: [https://dev-concepts.dev/](https://dev-concepts.dev/)