Post AchyVAMjodxI4KdRXE by clive@saturation.social
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(DIR) Post #Acghz9AgvawIfokbYW by elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2023-12-10T23:56:27Z
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I know this is not Linkedin, but I’m curious: what are the tools that help your personal #productivity the most?[.] What works for me:+] this basic pomodoro from @clive: http://text-pomodoro.glitch.me/ when I really need to focus+] Zotero as a reference manager: https://www.zotero.org/, I would be lost without it+] Github (desktop): my coding became much more focused, organized and reusable thanks to it: https://desktop.github.com/+] GanttProject to realize how little time I have left… : https://www.ganttproject.biz/#is-easy[.] What I tried but didn’t work for me:-] Tasks “manager”: tried Obsidian, One Note, Google Keep, Notebook… I can’t seem to find The One that works for me (and syncs with my laptop & phone). Taking suggestions! -] Something to read and annotate pdfs: I got a Remarkable2 tablet, and then an Onyx Boox Note Air 2, and they’re just too slow and do not easily sync with my laptop and Zotero. For the most important papers I have to say I might prefer paper.. Also taking suggestions for this.Edit: trying to make the bullet points not disappear in #IceCubes is still hard
(DIR) Post #Acgi4tY3vXA9xOQIPQ by clive@saturation.social
2023-12-11T03:52:10Z
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@elduvelle 😅 aha, so glad you find that pomodoro useful!I literally just used it a few hours ago to get me un-stuck on my next book
(DIR) Post #AcgiHr4QS3BA2Ijyq0 by clive@saturation.social
2023-12-11T03:53:42Z
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@elduvelle (Also, I think your question posed here on Mastodon is likely to produce much more interesting and genuinely useful responses than on LinkedIn, so I'm glad you did it here lol)
(DIR) Post #AcgioH4xHtuRy0Rmim by elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2023-12-11T04:01:43Z
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@clive if anyone answers, that is :)
(DIR) Post #AchUx2B8qqIiA1aEwC by fabrice13@neuromatch.social
2023-12-11T11:21:55Z
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@elduvelle @clive thanks for sharing (better here than on linkedin). I'll try the Gantt thing.Not really sad to read Obsidian doesn't do it for you, but I'll note anyway that it is not a task manager although it has specific plugins for that.As a note-taking and note-organizing app, I like it quite a lot, and use it quite a bit :) I'd like to be more intense with it (and note taking in general, btw), but while the developers community around it is wonderful, people explaining how to use it for productivity are mainly doing "look how used Obsidian to make this guide on how to use Obsidian".To whom it may concern, I found her different, liked her stuff https://youtu.be/OUrOfIqvGS4?feature=shared
(DIR) Post #AchUx3MATKiNoVkYlM by nicole@pkm.social
2023-12-11T13:01:20Z
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@fabrice13 Awww, thank you! Glad you like my stuff and think I’m different. I agree with you that it’s not a task manager. I don’t use it as that and don’t think it excels for that use case. I prefer calendar blocking anyway (Google Calendar + Reclaim).
(DIR) Post #AchUx3pEjFy1GfLm4W by fabrice13@neuromatch.social
2023-12-11T11:24:28Z
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@elduvelle @clive @nicole on the fediverse!
(DIR) Post #AchyUz3tqLLn0ijk92 by plantarum@ottawa.place
2023-12-11T04:26:25Z
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@elduvelle @clive for a task manager/todo list, I've abandoned digital and gone to a paper notebook. syncing issues disappeared:)I found the #BulletJournal system very useful in providing a flexible, minimalist structure to my notebook. See #RyderCaroll's book or YouTube channel for details. be warned though, a lot of people have become quite taken with the name "bullet journal", and use it to describe very complicated scrapbooking hobbies that don't have a lot in common with Carroll's actual method
(DIR) Post #AchyV4paOTSwu45OfQ by alesssia@mas.to
2023-12-11T16:29:01Z
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@plantarum @elduvelle @clive I'm also using (a very simplified version of) the #bulletJournal as todo list/task manager. I also use the same paper notebook to take notes, so it's all in one place. Easy to synconise, a bit more complicated to search 😅I'm a big fan of #zotero, currently also testing #notion, and experimenting with #obsidian
(DIR) Post #AchyVAMjodxI4KdRXE by clive@saturation.social
2023-12-11T18:32:05Z
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@alesssia @plantarum @elduvelle I know a lot of folks who swear by bullet journaling, and paper in general
(DIR) Post #AchydsjQkQxvz5PBsO by djoll@mstdn.social
2023-12-11T08:44:47Z
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@elduvelle @clive I’m still using (gasp) Evernote for everything / now for 14 years 😳 with something like 16k notes & 20Gb of data. For all its up & downs over the years, it’s still pretty damn good.I’ve built a whole system around it with python scripts etc. that works better for me than anything else does. But since the BendingSpoon acquisition I know in my heart that I’m really going to need to rebuild it all elsewhere… 😔 Obsidian is probably the closest alternative I’ve found so far.
(DIR) Post #AchydtsKUpg7WyZoO0 by clive@saturation.social
2023-12-11T18:33:45Z
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@djoll @elduvelle I've wanted to switch to Obsidian -- I use Scrivener for my journalism, but its unsupported Linux version is incredibly old and janky, so I can't use it crossplatformObsidian looks like the most possibly useful replacement
(DIR) Post #AchylCcND54zgfaxuK by argonaut@mastodon.social
2023-12-11T06:20:29Z
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@elduvelle @clive Working on something I really like tends to do the trick… I sometimes miss lunch and supper without even realising…
(DIR) Post #AchylDOaJpe06C9T3Q by argonaut@mastodon.social
2023-12-11T06:22:20Z
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@elduvelle @clive Also, the right music can make me twice as productive… the wrong one can do the exact opposite, tho.And only checking social media at night has made me the productivity equivalent of a Zamboni.
(DIR) Post #AchylE0W2nz9zptlB2 by clive@saturation.social
2023-12-11T18:33:57Z
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@argonaut @elduvelle nice!
(DIR) Post #AchyrzNiowVif8yi1I by ldiamand@fosstodon.org
2023-12-11T05:21:02Z
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@elduvelle @clive I have just started using copilot, inside vim. I have to admit it is very useful, especially on unfamiliar topics.
(DIR) Post #Achys0Sinq6W0wKDS4 by clive@saturation.social
2023-12-11T18:34:07Z
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@ldiamand @elduvelle I didn't know it worked inside vim!
(DIR) Post #AchzHdjfvEoz3fTgzA by ldiamand@fosstodon.org
2023-12-11T18:40:56Z
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@clive @elduvelle https://github.com/github/copilot.vimIt has fairly quickly become smarter about guessing what I want. It's not perfect but it saves a ton of typing, just by being able to autocomplete things in a much more context-sensitive way.
(DIR) Post #Aci0KxGzq4JuTXCyZ6 by clive@saturation.social
2023-12-11T18:52:45Z
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@ldiamand @elduvelle That's basically how I use Copilot tooMost of the time the autocomplete knows where I'm going, and it's easy to ignore if it doesn't
(DIR) Post #Aci2Z4k93scZbdhfLE by ldiamand@fosstodon.org
2023-12-11T19:17:42Z
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@clive @elduvelle I think I'm at the point now where I'm almost relieved when it makes mistakes, as it means it's not quite ready to rise up against its human masters.
(DIR) Post #Aci7pyFmwVEIAlNbvc by clive@saturation.social
2023-12-11T20:16:44Z
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@elduvelle @ldiamand Heh heh yes