For me? That, and focus. At least that’s the idea. I’m not starting anything yet ;-)
For others… I guess that’s the lazy approach of building a YouTube channel. But there all the problems with that, which were mentioned in an earlier comment ;-)
Have you considered using two jars and marbles? I keep these on my desk, dropping a marble from one to the other once I complete a task. When all the marbles are transferred, I write the date on the second jar, move the marbles back to the first jar, and start again. I do this to track my cartooning work.
It gives me a visual reminder of my progress and a crude date tracker to show how long it took me to complete a cycle.
Since I frequently get distracted and take breaks and stuff, sometimes I set a simple timer when I'm sitting down with the intention of really working, to keep myself honest. It feels to me like live streaming could serve a similar purpose but with an advantage that if you are also idling in say the unreal or unity discords (or your own) where occasionally you really are asking for help from people, it becomes very easy for them to just see what you're doing and have less typing and screenshotting. As far as actually streaming on like twitch or something, I feel like it is going to be another source of distraction for me, and I'd rather just have a timer.
It would require a good breakdown of tasks, not to mention tasks that get complicated along the way. Not to mention different number of marbles for different cycles...
They take WAY too long. I do not have 3 hrs to wait on you to get to your point, give shoutouts to everyone & their cousin, and have unskippable ads. Livestreams "respect" your time, but they disrespect the viewer's time.
Instead, to respect the viewer's time,
1) EDIT your recording down to the actionable items as if u made no mistakes & knew exactly what u were doing to begin w. 3 hrs could become ~30 minutes.
2) Voice Over a commentary of what you did / are doing in the video. Explain what u did & why u did it fod those sitting & thinking, "What?! Why did u do that? That will never work." A silent video also means that important moments will be overlooked by the viewer when they turn their head away or fell asleep from boredom.
3) Story Mode - To make it very watchable, organize it in 3 part, story style: A) Problem & Desired Result. B) Challenges / Mistakes. C) Solution.
A more minimal effort way of making some unplanned 3-hour live stream of you just working marginally watchable without ending up spending tons of time editing it, might be to make it a time lapse. So frames where nothing is changing are auto cut out, and the rest is at 10x speed or somesuch. Just an idea.
I'm a bit confused. What's a devlog? Do you stream yourself working on a game?
Exactly!
Interesting. And it’s primarily to motivate yourself?
For me? That, and focus. At least that’s the idea. I’m not starting anything yet ;-)
For others… I guess that’s the lazy approach of building a YouTube channel. But there all the problems with that, which were mentioned in an earlier comment ;-)
Have you considered using two jars and marbles? I keep these on my desk, dropping a marble from one to the other once I complete a task. When all the marbles are transferred, I write the date on the second jar, move the marbles back to the first jar, and start again. I do this to track my cartooning work.
It gives me a visual reminder of my progress and a crude date tracker to show how long it took me to complete a cycle.
Since I frequently get distracted and take breaks and stuff, sometimes I set a simple timer when I'm sitting down with the intention of really working, to keep myself honest. It feels to me like live streaming could serve a similar purpose but with an advantage that if you are also idling in say the unreal or unity discords (or your own) where occasionally you really are asking for help from people, it becomes very easy for them to just see what you're doing and have less typing and screenshotting. As far as actually streaming on like twitch or something, I feel like it is going to be another source of distraction for me, and I'd rather just have a timer.
You might like the Monday issue :-) I share my productivity hack for focus that works recently :-)
Interesting approach!
It would require a good breakdown of tasks, not to mention tasks that get complicated along the way. Not to mention different number of marbles for different cycles...
Also, you do cartoons?
Yeah, I enjoy drawing gag cartoons and comic strips. Thanks for asking!
As for the tasks, don't overthink it. If you feel you've switched from one task to another, that's worthy of a marble.
Livestreams SUCK!
They take WAY too long. I do not have 3 hrs to wait on you to get to your point, give shoutouts to everyone & their cousin, and have unskippable ads. Livestreams "respect" your time, but they disrespect the viewer's time.
Instead, to respect the viewer's time,
1) EDIT your recording down to the actionable items as if u made no mistakes & knew exactly what u were doing to begin w. 3 hrs could become ~30 minutes.
2) Voice Over a commentary of what you did / are doing in the video. Explain what u did & why u did it fod those sitting & thinking, "What?! Why did u do that? That will never work." A silent video also means that important moments will be overlooked by the viewer when they turn their head away or fell asleep from boredom.
3) Story Mode - To make it very watchable, organize it in 3 part, story style: A) Problem & Desired Result. B) Challenges / Mistakes. C) Solution.
A more minimal effort way of making some unplanned 3-hour live stream of you just working marginally watchable without ending up spending tons of time editing it, might be to make it a time lapse. So frames where nothing is changing are auto cut out, and the rest is at 10x speed or somesuch. Just an idea.
Excellent insight! Thank you! ;-)
If I ever get to do livestreams, I will definitely follow your advice!