Getting 6x more productive | Code faster with these tips

No, I am not joking, with 6x more productivity I mean doing what you did in 6 days in a single day. Well this post is more than that, it is about completing any kind of project in a single week.

What to code?

We are focusing on coding projects here. It can be of any kind websites, GUIs, Machine Learning models or anything.

Working on projects can land you jobs, but it is more than that, it is working for yourself before working for others. You can release your project and become the next Startup Billionare.

The Tips

Now without any ado I am going to share some tips which will help you stay productive.

1) Plan

You first need to plan your project mantain a diary and write all your plans for the project the Stack which you are going to use the services which you will involve the complexity.

Don’t think that you are writing out a fairy tale. Plan projects as big or as small as you like

2) Break Down

You then want to break down your project into multiple steps. Like if you are planning to create a Chat app. The steps can be

1. Create The backend
2. Create the UI
3. Create the Login/Register Feature
4. Create the Connection
5. Create the Sending message feature
6. Create the Recieving message feature

The steps will vary according to your stack and planning.

3) Divide

You will now divide all the steps such that you will make one step at one day. So, there can be 6 or 7 steps. Each to be attempted each day. So, you can set some hard days to complete more work on that day.

Make a list and hang it on your work area with tick boxes craving you to complete the work and tick them

4) Code

After all the neccessary planning now finally it is the time to code out the project you may take sundays for planning and all other days for implementation. Each day try atleast to complete a step and tick out that step in your list. Try to that one step and that one step only don’t go further don’t go behind.

Extra Tips

Here are some extra tips to get you more and more productive.

Upload your projects on github

Try to upload your projects on github so that your successful projects will inspire your upcoming projects.

Use git

Git keeps a really nice history of your project and allows to work on different features of it in parrallel. So try to use it.

Conclusion

The sole trick is to plan out your project in advance so that you know what to do when. This method is experimental science and you will improve your planning the more you practice it. Getting 6x productive means to accomplish kicking of lethargy and getting some exciting projects on your resume.