Our favourite Productivity Hacks 🔥
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Scott and Wes - Do you sleep? How do you get so much done? You replied to me way too fast! We share our best productivity hot tips and the apps we use the GSD.
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Show Notes
- Alfred
- Alfred Package Manager -Packal
- Alfred Units Conversion Workflow
- Cobalt2 Alfred Theme
- Alfred Timezones Workflow
- Alfred Process Kill Workflow
⌘+Lmakes text huge!- Alfred Font Awesome Workflow
- Alfred Encode / Decode Workflow
- Alfred DevDocs Workflow
- Alfred Stack Overflow Workflow
- Clipy Clipboard Manager App
- Todoist
- Things App
- Getting Things Done Book
- Git Alias
- Text Expander
- aText
- Evernote
- [Video Speed Controller] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en()
- Karabiner Elements
- Better Touch Tool
- Focus App
- Self Control App
- Slicy
- Figma Exports
- CloudApp
Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know
Sorry windows users.
⌘ + Tabswitch between apps- Press
qto quit an app from this place ⌘+ Backtick to switch between multiple windows of an app⌘ + Tfor a new tab⌘ + Shift + Tto reopen a closed tab- Crank up Key Repeat in your keyboard setting
Option + ←/→to move word-by-word- Add Shift to select those itesm
⌘+option+Arrowto switch tabs⌘ + Numberto go to that tab #- Enable tabbing on OSX dialog Boxes
- Press question mark in any google app to get a list of shortcuts
Sick Picks
- Scott: Rhino Sheild Case
- Wes: Deep Work
Shameless Plugs
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax, where we deliver tasty treats for web developers. Hello everybody welcome to Syn Tax. |
| 0:17.0 | We're here again for another sweet podcast full of tasty treats. This podcast is sponsored by Fresh Books Cloud |
| 0:25.0 | accounting. Go to Fresh Books.com for slash syntax and enter and syntax into the |
| 0:29.5 | How did you hear about a section? We'll hear a little bit more about them part way through the show. |
| 0:34.6 | Today we're talking all about productivity hacks. How do you squeeze that extra little bit of time or |
| 0:40.8 | productivity out of your computer, |
| 0:43.2 | out of your workflow, these little things, |
| 0:45.8 | these little changes to your life, |
| 0:48.2 | whether it's a specific app or whether it's a way |
| 0:50.8 | that you tackle something, |
| 0:53.0 | can really help you get an extra 20, 30, 40% out of the way. |
| 0:57.2 | And sometimes you see these people and you go to like, |
| 0:59.5 | how do you get so much done? |
| 1:02.3 | And it's almost like, it's almost always |
| 1:05.0 | that they have some sort of system in place. |
| 1:08.0 | They use a bunch of tools. |
| 1:09.2 | They've spent the time focusing on their process |
| 1:12.1 | and their productivity so that when they actually |
| 1:14.4 | get down to work they can have a lot more output than normal. So I'm a huge |
| 1:19.0 | productivity geek. What about you Scott? Yeah it's one of those things you can't ever get too much of. |
| 1:25.0 | Well, I mean, you probably get too much of it at some point, |
| 1:28.0 | but it's one of those things you can really optimize so many things that you may not even understand are holding you back in various time sinks and stuff like that. |
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