I agree with most of the comments.
Practice setting up and tearing down so you can do it in the dark by feel, i.e., everything should come out in the order you need it and you should be able to put your hands on it immediately without looking. It always annoys me when I violate this and put my sleeping clothes on the top of my pack when they should be the last thing I need to unpack ;-)
Always looking for the same width trees means you don't have to adjust your suspension -- it's already adjusted (except for a tiny tweak if you need it).
I'm not a super experienced hammocker but I can have my pack hung, my hammock hung, my chair out, my cook system set up and be in the chair reading in 15 minutes. Maybe I could shave a minute or two off that but that's OK by me. Part of setting up camp is transitioning from hiking to camping and putting everything up is sort of Zen since I don't have to think about any of it.
P.S. This reminds me of one of the rules I remember reading about office organization. "Never touch a piece of paper more than once". You pick it up and throw it out, file it, read it, whatever. But you never put it back in a pile to be handled again. If you are taking things out of your pack an not immediately using them and are finished with them, you're not doing things in the simplest order.
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