Collaboration, Software

TAskade: #### No Context Switching 🤹‍♂️

Having all those lovely tools at hand is great, but… switching between them, not so much. Shuffling apps and tabs isn’t just plain unproductive. It also saps your attention in a process called a cognitive (or context) switching.

In simple terms, a cognitive switch happens when you *think* you’re multitasking. While the idea of doing two things at the same time is alluring, the human brain can only focus on one thing at a time.

When you try to fill your to-do lists, host a video conference and edit documents, you merely shift attention from one task to another.

Alternating between different tools comes with a burden called a switch cost which leads to: