About a year ago, I met @andreyazimov in Dojo, a coworking space in Bali. He wanted to make web products like me too. So I gave him some tips some time. I started a Telegram chat group with him and my brother, who was also learning web dev. Then more friends from Bali: @oskarth and @flowen_nl joined. Then I invited Marc: the founder of BetaList and a friend who I chat with about bootstrapping startups for the last few years.
大约一年前，我在巴厘岛的一个联合办公空间Dojo遇到了@andreyazimov。他也想像我一样做网络产品。所以我给了他一些建议。我和他以及我的兄弟一起建立了一个Telegram聊天组，我的兄弟也在学习网络开发。然后更多来自巴厘岛的朋友：@oskarth和@flowen_nl加入。然后我邀请了马克：BetaList的创始人，也是我过去几年一直在谈论创业的朋友。

The idea of this group was to help each other with technical issues while coding, but also to coach each other to ship more consistently. And it worked a bit. We would share our todo lists of the day or week, and check it off and update. Finishing your to-do list in a group made it more social but also more accountable. If someone wasn’t shipping for a few days, we’d ask “hey, what’s going on?”. Sometimes they were stuck on something and we could help each other get out of that.
这个小组的想法是在编码时互相帮助解决技术问题，同时也指导彼此更加一致地发布。它起了一点作用。我们会分享一天或一周的待办事项清单，并检查和更新。在一个小组中完成你的待办事项清单会让它更有社会性，也更有责任感。如果有人几天不发货，我们会问“嘿，怎么了？”。有时候他们被什么东西卡住了，我们可以互相帮助。

Meanwhile for years, Marc had an idea to have makers (like me) log their updates. He tried it with changelog.co, which was great but it was too wieldy for me to go to the site and update every time I changed something. So it kinda died off (at least for me).
与此同时，多年来，马克有一个想法，让制造商（像我一样）记录他们的更新。他尝试了changelog.co，这是伟大的，但它太wieldy我去网站和更新每次我改变了一些东西。所以它有点死了（至少对我来说）。

WIP was born 出生于

The two ideas of (1) a chat group for accountability and mutual help and (2) a public log of maker updates, magically merged when Marc started a Telegram chat group called “🚧 Work in Progress” (or WIP):
这两个想法（1）一个负责和互助的聊天组和（2）一个制造商更新的公共日志，当马克开始一个名为“正在进行的工作”（或“工作”）的电报聊天组时，神奇地融合在一起🚧

Besides helping each other, we’d log finishing our tasks by writing:
除了互相帮助，我们还通过写作来记录完成任务的情况：

/done add homebase feature to #nomadlist
/done将homebase功能添加到#nomadlist

But nothing happened yet. Marc then wrote a bot for us called @wipbot:
但什么都没发生。Marc随后为我们写了一个机器人，名为@wipbot：

@wipbot saves our finished tasks we write on Telegram, but on a website called wip.chat:
@wipbot保存了我们在Telegram上完成的任务，但在一个名为wip.chat的网站上：

And it has user profiles, to see what people are doing, publicly:
它有用户档案，可以公开地看到人们在做什么：

I now use it as my main to-do list. By writing @wipbot, I can see all my pending todo’s and tap one to complete it. Since Telegram works both on desktop and mobile, it’s always there to check what I have to do, and mark it as complete when I have.
我现在把它作为我的主要任务清单。通过编写 @wipbot ，我可以查看所有待完成的待办事项，并点击其中一个以完成它。由于Telegram在桌面和移动的上都可以工作，因此它总是可以检查我必须做的事情，并在我完成时将其标记为完成。

It’s been 100 days

已经100天了

That was 3 months ago, and since then I can say that WIP has changed my life. There’s really only been 2 productivity workflows that ever worked in my life: my Post-It note system, and WIP. The idea is that I don’t even care about the tasks on my to-do list, I just want to complete a WIP task just for completing it.
那是三个月前的事了，从那以后，我可以说，我的生活改变了。在我的生活中，只有两个工作流程是有效的：我的便利贴系统和电子邮件。我的想法是，我甚至不关心我的待办事项列表上的任务，我只想完成一个任务，只是为了完成它。

Even more because WIP has streaks. If you ship 2 days in a row, you get a streak next to your avatar:
更重要的是，因为它有条纹。如果你连续发货2天，你会在你的头像旁边得到一个连胜：

🔖 Here’s my to-do system that’s only @Postit’s pic.twitter.com/7Pm5ts1u5m
🔖这是我的待办事项系统，只有@Postit的pic.twitter.com/7Pm5ts1u5m

— Pieter Levels @ 🏝🌋 (@levelsio) September 15, 2017
- Pieter Levels @Levelsio（@levelsio）2017年9月15日

I was pretty productive before with my Post-It notes above (that was months ago), but many days I just didn’t ship at all. Now I ship at least one task, to keep my WIP streak, which generally means if I ship one, I’ll ship two cause I just force the flow.
我以前在上面写便利贴的时候效率很高（那是几个月前的事了），但是很多时候我根本没有发货。现在我至少发布一个任务，以保持我的连续性，这通常意味着如果我发布一个，我会发布两个，因为我只是强迫流程。

Now after 100 days of shipping, I have a streak of 100:
现在，经过100天的航运，我有一个连胜100：

As vain, superficial and limited as this is (e.g. what defines an actual shipped task really?), it works. I’ve been more productive than before I used WIP. I’ve shipped 469 tasks in 100 days, an average of 4.69 task per day (doh):
尽管这是徒劳的、肤浅的和有限的（例如，什么定义了一个真正的交付任务？），有时灵我已经比以前更有效率了，我使用了。我在100天内发送了469个任务，平均每天4.69个任务（doh）：

I don’t really think in weekdays and weekends but still my best weekdays for shipping are ironically, the weekend. I think because I’m not distracted while other people are getting drunk 😛
我真的不认为在工作日和周末，但仍然是我最好的工作日航运具有讽刺意味的是，周末。我想是因为我不会在别人喝醉的时候分心

Tl;DR, I have a more consistent flow of work than before WIP.
博士，我的工作流程比以前更稳定了。

Flow trends 流量趋势

With the data from WIP, I’ve learnt about some trends in my workflow:
通过使用Google的数据，我了解了工作流程中的一些趋势：

That period of me hardly shipping for 2 weeks around late November, early December? That was me flying to Bali, landing and acclimatizing to a new place.
我在11月下旬，12月上旬几乎没有发货的那段时间？那是我飞到巴厘岛，降落并适应一个新的地方。

I had no idea it took me so long to get back into flow, I’d expect 4 days! But 2 weeks?!
我不知道我花了这么长时间才回到流动状态，我希望4天！但是两周？！

Now I understand how destructive fast travel, e.g. going to a new place every week, can be for you. That’s why some people fairly say remote work doesn’t work for them, but they’re traveling too fast. According to this data I need 2 weeks to merely acclimatize. That means 2 weeks of lost productivity. I might still work for those 2 weeks, but I’m unable to actually get up the flow “hill” as I do before and after those 2 weeks! This also means unless I stay in a place for longer than 1 month, my “acclimatizing” downtime is over 50% of my time! That’s a lot!
现在我明白了快速旅行的破坏性，例如每周去一个新的地方，对你来说。这就是为什么有些人公平地说远程工作不适合他们，但他们的旅行太快了。根据这个数据，我需要两个星期的时间来适应。这意味着两周的生产力损失。我可能仍然工作的那2个星期，但我不能真正得到了流动“山”，因为我之前和之后，这2个星期！这也意味着除非我在一个地方呆超过1个月，否则我的“适应”停机时间超过50%！太多了！

But it’s deeper than just missing 2 weeks. If you look at the chart there’s multiple flow periods, oddly specifically all being around 3 weeks. I will bottom at day 1 of 3 weeks, then peak at day 11 and slowly crash back down. Then I refuel, and I go back up again:
但这不仅仅是失踪两周。如果你看一下图表，有多个流动期，奇怪的是，所有的流动期都在3周左右。我会在3周的第1天触底，然后在第11天达到顶峰，然后慢慢地跌回去。然后我补充燃料，然后我再回到上面：

(Again, skip the purple part of travel in this chart fucking up my flow).
（再次，跳过这张图表中旅行的紫色部分，他妈的我的流程）。

Conclusion 结论

Where another to-do app is probably useless, social accountability seems to work well for productivity. It might help you ship more and if you log it, (like on WIP) teach you about the characteristics of your flow state over time.
在另一个待办事项应用程序可能毫无用处的地方，社会责任似乎对生产力很有效。它可能会帮助你运送更多的东西，如果你记录它，（比如在Facebook上）教你随着时间的推移你的心流状态的特征。

If you see how destructive just one airplane flight can be for flow state, then there’s probably much more affecting it, like food, sleep and relationships. I have no data on that yet, but that might be interesting to study more later!
如果你看到一次飞机飞行对心流状态的破坏性，那么可能有更多的影响，比如食物，睡眠和关系。我还没有这方面的数据，但以后可能会有更多有趣的研究！

Just these charts instantly taught me a lot about my flow state. For me flow state is holy. If I’m not in flow I’m useless as a maker: I don’t have ideas, I’m not that excited to work. Flow state has left me for weeks, sometimes months, like when I got depressed. But if flow state works, it’s like reaching a higher level of consciousness: I’m hyper creative, productive, ambitious, my brain runs fast and makes original associations between ideas and I’m more confident so I ship with more conviction. And that becomes visible in the end product.
这些图表立刻教会了我很多关于我的心流状态的知识。对我来说，心流状态是神圣的。如果我不处于心流状态，我作为一个创造者是没用的：我没有想法，我对工作不那么兴奋。心流状态已经离开我几个星期，有时几个月，就像我沮丧的时候一样。但如果心流状态有效，就像达到了一个更高的意识水平：我非常有创造力，富有成效，雄心勃勃，我的大脑运行得很快，在想法之间建立了原始的联系，我更自信，所以我更有信心。这在最终产品中是显而易见的。

If you like to increase your productivity, but not with another to-do app. Try social accountability. Make a group. Work together! Either with WIP or your own friends group. It might work!
如果你想提高你的工作效率，但不想用另一个待办事项应用程序，试试社会责任。组成一个小组。一起努力！无论是你的朋友还是你自己的朋友。可能有用！

P.S. A hat tip to my fellow 100-streak record holders: @lukaszmtw and @bstanga, I made us awards:
P.S.向我的100连胜纪录保持者伙伴们致敬：@lukaszmtw和@bstanga，我为我们颁奖：

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