Absolute Zero has a great system for productivity 


Search engines can be great for discovery of new information so long as you know how they work, but they are sorely lacking in the information recall department. One of the best productivity hacks for me to address information recall has been to use the following system (assuming that you have found your most important life goal):

0. Before you go to sleep, write down the most important task that must be done that will help you towards achieving your most important goal.
1. Close every tab that is not essential to your goal.
2. Explicitly name browser windows with extensions like Tabli or Tab Manager Plus and ask why each of these windows is important to have. This was the biggest boost to productivity other than using tab suspenders as my computer was free to do other things beside hoarding browser tabs that would never be read at all.
3. Prime yourself by skimming through the headings and keywords to better internalize any important findings. Write down that information from memory in your own words inside of a commonplace notebook with citations to the original source.
4. Write a combination of mind maps and concept maps for your notes in a dot grid notebook with an index that starts from the last page. It helps to read through your written notes and ask how and why each of these concepts is important to understand the bigger picture. Tony Buzan has some great tips on creating excellent mind maps if you're interested.
5. Compile a reading list with the OneTab browser extension to save windows that were useful for your findings.
6. Consolidate notes and fundamental truths with proper tags and citations in a hybrid paper/digital Zettelkasten system. Would highly recommend either Obsidian or writing a bash script to automatically open a templated text file in a text editor. Make sure you have a folder that is solely dedicated to your Zettelkasten notes. "How to Take Smart Notes" by Sönke Ahrens and the getting started page on zettelkasten.de are great resources for this topic.
7. If you implemented the system correctly, you can easily search through your notes in the via the tags or keywords using a bash pipeline command that uses find, xargs, and grep in the command line.

Combine this system with a daily implementation of Systematic Inventive Thinking and you will be a creative genius in much less time.