Productivity tips for everyday development
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Productivity tips for everyday development
Here are some tricks which can be useful for you that I’m using everyday as software engineer. These tricks are applicable for macOS, if you know alternatives for other OSes feel free to leave a comment.
alfred
It’s a free tool that can cut a lot of your routine. You need to install it first. Use ⌥ + space shortcut to open Alfred. These are my most used features:
quick app access
Open Alfred and start typing app name and hit enter to open this app:
bookmarks
First go to Alfred settings ( ⌥ + space then ⌘ + ,) and enable web bookmarks.
Open chrome/safari (⌥ + spaceand then type “chrome” or “safari”), find desirable page, add it to bookmark (cmd + d), name and save it.
Wait for ~10 seconds (yeah that’s strange, but this time is necessary to make a bookmark available via Alfred). Open Alfred and start typing bookmark name.
I put urls which I use at least couple times a week in bookmarks.
commands
⌥ + space and type:
Sleep — to sleep OS. I’m using an external monitor so just closing my laptop is not enough.
Restart — restart OS.
Lock — well, my colleagues love to send stupid messages from me to corporate messenger. It’s best to lock my computer. And unlike sleep it’s much faster to start working from a locked state.
other
There are a lot of things. You can do basic math, use it as Google shortcut (just type anything and press enter) and so on. I find them fascinating but rarely use those ones.
personal/work accounts
Here is my motivation:
- Continue from the same place. You logout from an account and when login back you are on the same state. Same tabs, same apps opened.
- Separate work and personal emails/services/apps. This is a huge distraction (social network on works, work stuff on weekends) and pain point (just remember trying to login to Google services using the RIGHT email ha-ha).
Also I do same on my Android phone, but not very successfully.
One caveat here. You probably will experience permission issues for apps that you use across accounts. I personally had issues with brew, ohmyzsh, Android Studio. Google will help you and most likely simple chmod ‘ing will be enough.
shortcuts
When I start using a new app/web service, I’m at least trying to learn shortcuts for the most important operations. I highly recommend to learn at least shortcuts for your IDE, browser and OS of choice.
Android Studio , Safari shortcuts
summary
Now you can cut some mental overhead and do whatever you want with saved energy.
Feel free to share your tips.
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