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Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

How We Manage Our Lives — Notion, Todos, Notes, Focusing, Calendars, Goal tracking, and more!

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

Wes Bos

Tech News, News, Technology

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Wes and Scott talk about life management — the systems and tools for managing all the the busy details of life and work. Freshbooks - Sponsor Get a 30 day free trial of Freshbooks at freshbooks.com/syntax and put SYNTAX in the “How did you hear about us?” section. Sentry - Sponsor If you want to know what’s happening with your errors, track them with Sentry. Sentry is open-source error tracking that helps developers monitor and fix crashes in real time. Cut your time on error resolution from five hours to five minutes. It works with any language and integrates with dozens of other services. Syntax listeners can get two months for free by visiting Sentry.io and using the coupon code “tastytreat”. Show Notes 5:00 - Todos GTD philosophy Todoist Things 12:31 - Focusing Focus app Turn off all notifications on iOS and desktop Rename apps Ask yourself why you feel the way you do Should be doing email? Do I need to eat that frog? Why do I not enjoy this? Sticky note on screen or desk 21:27 - How we track ideas, thoughts, and notes Get everything out of your head Markdown files Evernote Notion 27:23 - Calendar and schedule Google calendar USB light switch 33:30 - Goal tracking / Life progression Keep concepts and ideas in Notion Milestones (bigger ideas) are separated Use the system that works best for you 36:58 - Fun things with Notion What is Notion? Cross-linking/referencing between boards Episode calendar and possible episodes kanban Links Freshbooks Sentry Todoist Things Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity Focus Notion Evernote Bryant Electric USB light switch Bear app Airtable ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Scott: LG Ultrawide Monitor Wes: LG 4k 32" Monitor Shameless Plugs Scott’s React Hooks For Everyone Course Wes’ Courses Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott’s Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes’ Instagram Wes’ Twitter Wes’ Facebook Scott’s Twitter

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there.

0:06.0

Strap yourself in and get ready.

0:08.0

Here is Scott Telinsky and West Boss.

0:10.4

Welcome to Syntax, this is the tastiest web development podcast out there. My name is West

0:16.5

Boss. I am a full stack of JavaScript developer and I make my own web development

0:21.2

courses that are going to teach you how to build

0:23.6

thing. I know a lot of you know that, but it's funny talking to people over the

0:27.4

last little while. Sometimes I talk to people about the podcast and they don't even

0:31.0

know that what our businesses are or what we do.

0:34.1

I think it's because we wait till the very end sometimes people don't necessarily

0:37.6

hear that. So I create web development courses on JavaScript primarily and as to Scott

0:42.3

do you want to tell us about yourself?

0:44.0

Oh yeah my name is Scott Tolinsky I'm a web developer out of Denver

0:47.4

Colorado I run level up tutorials.com which is also web development tutorials on a subscription-based service.

0:55.5

And yeah, that's pretty much what I do.

0:57.6

I'm primarily known as the level-up tutorials guy,

1:00.6

I think more so than people even recognize my name.

1:04.0

So it's like, oh, I've watched your YouTube videos for many years now.

1:09.0

So yeah, that's what I do.

1:10.0

And there's also, I have thousands of videos for free on

1:12.8

YouTube so check those out too. The other day I was searching on how to do

1:16.6

something in sketch and your video came up from like five years ago I think.

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