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Everyday i used to spend an hour in the morning reading emails.
Until i made a script that reads all mails, parses to urgent/priorities/meetings etc. Then shows me a dashboard of everything. 1 hr turned to 20mins max.
Then i made a chatbot out of it and now i just talk to it everytime and gives me the rundown.
Gave me so much time to code instead of reading fucking emails.74 -
Client: I want this type of app and website.
Me: Ok, I i'll do that, let's discuss the whole functionalities and flows.
Client: No, not right now, you just start developing, we will discuss functionalities and flows later.
😲 😂10 -
I wrote an app that tells me if a lottery ticket is winning. It takes a picture of the ticket, does OCR, finds the number lines and compares them with a remote json.
I live next door to a lottery shop.9 -
Working like somebody out there has the same app idea as you and is working twice as hard as you are right now.7
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Get children! You'll have so little time over for your fun projects that you force yourself to stop procrastinating and start accomplishing truly amazing things in just 5 minutes here and 20 minutes there.7
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Working from home. That time you spend commuting is spent on working. That random guy showing up at your desk breaking your concentration doesn't exist. If there's a bullshit meeting you have to go to, you can dial in, put yourself on mute and continue to work while listening and just unmute as needed.
Seriously so much more productive.11 -
Might sound weird but I pretend somebody is watching me through my own eyes. Somebody I want to impress, or make jealous, of my productivity and skill. Elaborate, but it works.3
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I'd say VIM, but I end up spending the day customizing my .vimrc file instead of actual productivity.2
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Stop reading articles on which framework/library is better, pick one and start actually writing code.
... Only to then discover that this library is utterly broken and/or undocumented and you have to start over again.
GODDAMNIT JS I HATE YOUR ASS7 -
This applies only to Headphone guys. Don't listen to songs that contain lyrics you understand. Something with foreign lyrics you can't predict is fine. This way you won't find your brain resonating with the song instead of your code.
I'm pretty sure most of you already knew this, but it's worth mentioning5 -
Pretending to have a hard deadline if I don't have one. Gotta trick my brain in putting some effort into it.3
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My productivity hack? Exercise.
It's amazing what a good workout can do after a long day of work. The stress just melts away and i sleep like a baby!! Ready to rock and roll the next day. 😎4 -
Always get some sleep before running "rm -rf" (or anything really) in production
PS: sorry GL, couldn't resist, still love you ❤︎1 -
I see posts about automating your work flow, but if your aim is to save time by automation consult this handy chart
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Disable email notifications.
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As the founder (both biz and tech) of a startup, here is my timer list everyday. It reminds how much time I left before the day ends and how much tasks waiting for me to finish.
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For productivity I get to work at 5:30 and code until 8:30 before I open my emails for the first time. That's when my real job starts as a Project Manager (in the throes of teaching himself to code at age 37)3
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Finally a weekly rant where I can learn something!! 🙌
Mine:
-put linux on machine
-buy a gallon of coke
-run the ide
-start skype
-skype with my bud and code
And the thing that makes me The most productive: deadlines2 -
Wearing headphones all the time and deliberately ignore everything what's being said & is happening in the office unless it affects my work1
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Phone always on silent. And disable notifications on most apps.
Have been using a Pebble Time for a while and can't even remember the last time my phone has been ringing or beeping.
Sadly Pebble is no more 😧3 -
Wk38:
Headphones.
Block out the stupid and the crazies talking to themselves.
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How I feel about bootcamps? I feel like I'll never be able to attend one without moving to another country.2
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when you're reading an article on a site and a big pop up shows with no way out. then you don't know where is the thing you're reading so u just close the tab. that's productivity.2
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Plan my workday a day ahead. And plan it into as small steps as possible.
So that the next day I do not have to think about what to do. And that all steps are so small that I wont have much mental rejection for them. -
Stop being "smart" and trying to forsee every future problem, be naive, cynical, and get the job done.2
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Trello + time camp + gmail to trello.
I clock any task, having a clock makes me want to finish it faster. I guess it is a leftover from gaming. -
Work expands so as to fill the available time. That's Parkinson's Law.
Or in other words: The amount of time that one has to perform a task is the amount of time it will take to complete the task
So, if you have a deadline, wait until the correct time and then start working. This helps a lot in terms of not over-doing things and will save precious man-hours.3 -
Time blocking my calendar with busy items so I can limit the amount of meetings PM's can invite me to. Works well and helps me stay of task.1
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Here are some:
1. email filters for crap
2. know wtf is your current task and stay on it with minimal context switch
3. get a bot to automate some of your work (build, deploy, health, run tests) inside slack/rocket.chat/otjer-irc-like-software -
Pomodoro technique
Best hack as you choose the "session" length to suit your style and promotes focused effort. -
You know my best productivity hack was about my university hack was about food!!
We should reserve food 2days before the day we want
When time pass we should wait for someone else to cancel his/her,then reserve that one.
So my script checks canceled food list every 800ms and pick and reserve the best one for me asap. 😎😎2 -
Restoring my phone on a monthly basis, to get rid off all the extraneous shit that piles up after a while
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Productivity Hack: I'm a java developer who decided to write a productivity app that integrates to-do, pomodoro and eisenhower matrix altogether with reports generation. this will also help me logging at work. I'm also using electron + angular2 + typescript, just because, well, I'm trying to learn new stuff.
Long story short, many many many many days later, i'm still waiting for that productivity boost. What is dis webpack? Wat u mean loaders? Wat promises? electron-prebuilt is now electron? Wat u mean npm and node should be updated? .....
Please send help1 -
I logged in a Remote Server, where Bi-Directional was disabled.Didn't allowed copy-paste and needed to upload a new Web app release.
Hack: just inserted usb flash drive in my computer and remote server recognised that as external.
Deployment completed!4 -
This was a one day project :
I created an app that would directly read feeds about our travel website when they hashtag about their experiences on twitter ,and automated it to pass it through a very minimal machine level algorithm to identify the sentiment of the tweet. (Good ,bad and neutral). The analyzer was about 40 percent accurate,but it did better with training the keywords.This not only helped the Global Communications perform better at their work,but were able to close out most of the issues on a day to day basis.4 -
Noise cancelling headphones, 0.5 liter thermos mug constantly filled with coffee by the project manager and lock on the office door.4
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Assuming Mac: Alfred for OS such as searching and opening apps, using spaces to setup smart project areas, divvy app to quickly size and move around the windows, terminal shortcuts to open files in the OS or in an editor, transmit for hidden files and dragging between panes and server + occasional mounting for preprocessing, inbox-zero mentality, a properly setup google drive app so you don't email forked files back and fourth, beanstalk for deployment of larger stacks, surge.sh for targeted front-end sites, Ember CLI or brunch for build pipelines, CodePen for UI experiments outside of the project, slack instead of email, pick up the telephone and just call for clarification more often, stylus is easier to maintain then scss, hire designers that actually know what their job is if you can. For arduous WordPress administration, rightclick open in new tab for everything - or half your time will be pushing the back button, wp-migrate pro, and in general try to get out of WP when you can.
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Nothing like when I created an offline installation of visual studio. That's >20GB saved for each time I've had to start everything a fresh.
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Endless loop from workstation to bathroom.
Enough coffee to make your central nervous system depends on it.2 -
In work we have a ticketing system for changes etc. I try and do a bit of each at a time so it looks like I have loads to do... Then I finish all of them together and clear my tickets
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Break my phone...
Tho I can't say I've used this approach yet, but I'm certain it'll work if I ever get that courage -
If you ever need to focus on your work, grab your headphones and listen to https://coffitivity.com1
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If you have a hard time remembering your password, just make it the error message you would typically receive. For example, if you type in an incorrect password it will tell you "your password is incorrect" aha you can quickly remember that your password is in fact "incorrect".2
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Setup SSH keys from your Dev machine to every development environment then configure a putty profile to use that key with your login.
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Coffee. Get wired off your face on caffeine and then you only have three choices, program like you've never programmed before, bounce off a couple of walls or have a severe heart attack.
Rinse an repeat until you're in hospital.
You're welcome 😂😂1 -
Sometimes I record my screen to make a timelapse of my coding, it helps me stay focused, best hack of them all though? Work on something you love.1
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My music (often MrSuicideSheep long mixes) + good mood + my computer + knowledge of IDE or vim keybindings = maximum productivity
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I have learned most of the keyboard shortcut for the IDEs i use. My favorite keyboard shortcuts are VS's.
Let's not forget about snippet -
Put notifications in their place and carefully selecting which apps can interrupt you and at what times for what purposes.
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On my last project we needed to have about 5 or 6 different webservices running and 2 ssh tunnels open to run the app locally. So i wrote a simple script to automatically split my terminal window into seperate panes and cd into each repo. I also had a script to go into every repo and git pull. Really simple scripts, but very useful.
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Read, think about the problem, ponder some more and procrastinate.
Deadlines are my best productivity hack. -
A pair of good phones and a great music! Specially a good heavy metal or a even better classical music #spotifyinveins
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Manage interruptions with ruthless efficiency: "I'll get back to you in 10 minutes." If I need to switch contexts, I'll make a note (physical or digital) so I can quickly get back into my task.
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