Make it easier to find
- Put frequently used apps (like Google Keep) in first screen, etc
- Add bookmark with short and easy to remember name in Chrome to make it easier to find
- Delete history in Chrome to make search/autocompletion in Address bar work better
- Minimize(or kill) windows that are not going to be used recently
How to Save Context
- Compile error
- TODO tag
- Put the web page into a new window
- When we find something online that we should read or search later, we can shift+w to put this page into a new window so we can go back to it later.
- We can also use The Great Suspender to suspend the new tab or window so these pages don’t consume a lot of RAM.
- Git diff
- Undo then redo in editor
- Use Case: After search, or move pointer, we would like to go back to last edit position.
Pin
- Use Atom pinned-tabs to pin files that you are constantly working on recently
- “PINNED-TABS: CLOSE UNPINNED” if needed.
Preserve Last Session
- Set Chrome, iTerm2, Atom to restore last session.
- In Atom, select
Preserve Last Search for Command Palette and Fuzzy Finder
2X player
Shift+>(<) to increase/decrease speed in Youtube
- for pan.baidu
X movie in 10 minutes etc
What to do at Spare Time (<5)
- Clear things in Gmail(delete emails or draft), Google Keep
What else we can do
- During development, the depended service is down, before they fix it, we can still clean the code or create the PR.
Example
- Need a pr to test branch in another remote to make some experiment -> directly push to the test branch
- Run multiple long-time(>2+ seconds) commands together:
delete.sh && build.sh && deploy.sh
- During development/test, don’t make change in the build output,
- When we apply the change back to source, we may forget what change we have made, or waste some time to figure it out.
