Recognition leaves cues (e.g. "Are mint & lime in a mojito? ”), whereas recall doesn't ("What are the main ingredients in a mojito? "). The end goal of these questions is the same, but the former is easier to answer: you just have to recognise whether the information given to you is accurate.

Recognition over recall.

Apart from the digital measures like locking down your phone, there's another way you can mitigate distractions. If you share your physical work space with others, you can signal when you're available to be interrupted and when you're not. Leave a sign on your door, place an object on your desk, etc.There are even different levels for that:<ul><li>Available</li><li>Only disturb if urgent</li><li>Do not disturb under any circumstances</li></ul>

Limit distractions with upfront communication.

Whether it's in your room or at your desk, trimming down the visual clutter allows by contrast to shine more light on what's important, on the few things that you decide to leave in sight. Not only does that make it easier for you to find something you're looking for, but it's also nicer and less stressful on the eyes, because you have less visual stimuli.

Declutter physical spaces.

Several products use streaks to entice you into practising something daily. Headspace does it for meditation, GitHub does it with your code commits. Streaks can be useful, but they shouldn't be a default goal for any habit you want to learn. Aiming to be flexible, and to complete a task 3 or 5 times per week, is much more realistic than sticking to it everyday, especially if you're just getting started.

Flexible goals over streaks.

We can admire Slack's fantastic workflow for notifications. (<a href="https://slack.engineering/reducing-slacks-memory-footprint/">Source </a>)In real life, how do you decide on the way you're communicating news with someone? It can depend on:<ul><li>Your interlocutor (professional relation, family, long lost friend)</li><li>The number of interlocutors</li><li>The nature of the news (sensitive or not)</li><li>The urgency</li><li>The importance: paying your taxes might not be urgent if the deadline is 2 months from now, but it is important as you certainly don't want to miss it</li></ul>

Manage interruptions – for yourself and others.

An easy way to be more mindful of accessibility in your daily life, is to adapt your communication. If you want to use jargon with people who might not be familiar with it, explain what it means.In a group discussion, give background and context so that everyone has the same level of information and everyone can follow. When writing up a document, highlight the key information to make it easily scannable.

Pay attention to accessibility.

Do you write phone numbers as 0123456789 or 01.23.45.67.89? Splitting your content in smaller chunks makes it easier to both <a href="https://www.nngroup.com/articles/chunking/">scan </a>and <a href="https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/151291/1/Thalmann.et.al.Chunking.final.pdf">memorise </a>.You don't have to go all the way and reduce your wardrobe to 15 items, but... I suppose that's the spirit? In UX, this is known as <a href="https://lawsofux.com/hicks-law">Hick's law </a>. Choosing what to have between 10 options will take longer than between 3 options.

Avoid cognitive overload with chunking and fewer options.

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