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Ask HN: Personal tricks and solutions to small problems?

2 pointsby polymover 9 years ago
What are some tricks or solutions to small problems, preferably to problems that other people don&#x27;t realize they have? Some that may induce the eureka effect?<p>For example, if you are always cleaning your download folder or if it is containing GBytes of garbage, just use &#x2F;tmp as your Download directory.<p>Let&#x27;s use this thread to collect all of these tricks and solutions and dump them later into a public repo.

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a3nover 9 years ago
In Thunderbird I set my &quot;saved&quot; folder to be my Inbox, so that all related messages are together, and when I&#x27;m visually searching for something I see it no matter who sent it.<p>In Outlook I do similar, but I have incoming messages redirected to my Sent folder, because you can&#x27;t (I think) change where sent messages are saved. &quot;It&#x27;s Sent, why would you want sent messages to go anywhere else?&quot;