If you struggle to be productive due to your workflow being too unstructured, allowing you to get distracted too easily, this is one way I have found structure your time:
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In essence, you switch from centering your attention around the task to centering it around a timer.
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You start at a timer. You plan what your next step will be (baby steps), and write it down. You allocate yourself time to do that task. Repeat.
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The one sentence goal statement is crucial because it reminds you what you are supposed to be doing during the timer if you get sidetracked.
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If the timer runs out before you finish, that’s fine, but you are obliged to come back to the drawing board and re-write the goal statement.
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Snoozing the timer is a bad habit.
I don’t use a timer but I do write logs, and use those logs centrally to my work. Anytime I get distracted, my first reflex is to go look back at what I wrote down to be doing, often indeed in one sentence (enough to jog my memory, but more if some links are important for instance)
Yeah, I often find myself doing that too. At this point I’d say it is actually crucial to me for getting things done, even on medication.