Applying labels on my emails by keywords, sender, etc. I know I can search them, but having them sorted in labels makes everything easier to find without actually searching.<p>I also work hard on keeping my email inbox empty unless something has to be done on a specific email.<p>I also try to avoid reading news at work (source of distraction), but I want to keep myself as up-to-date as possible so I made some IFTTT applets which monitors some RSS feeds combined with some keywords I'm interested in. If there is a match, I get the URL sent to my Pocket account and the article will be sent to my eReader (supported natively by Kobo), and synced to be read offline while I commute to work or go back home.
I have a few instances of bit bar monitoring services / logs / up time.<p><a href="https://github.com/matryer/bitbar" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/matryer/bitbar</a><p>This has completely stopped me from stressing/anxiety over potential issues as I can just look to the top of my screen.
I have a Autohot key script that does the following:<p>Auto correct on some works i mis-type regularly<p>shortcut for server names, all our sever are formatted PrefixNumber, shortkey #number types the full name<p>Allows ctrl-v into cmd window<p>Fills in my default fields in our ticketing system<p>I date any note I take in onenote, #d shortcuts to todays date<p>Signatures for emails, #tr for Thanks and Regards<p>+- for ±<p>#desk/#mobile for my phone numbers<p>ctrl-alt-m to open a new email from anywhere<p>I don't think they save a huge amount of time in general but the prevent breaking your flow to check the date, remember my phone number etc which I think is more important.<p>Small but they add up.
I added a gmail script to auto delete emails with a certain tag. It should be easier to do and it’s convenient because i can tag all reminders and automated emails that i would otherwise forget to delete
Human context switching.<p>I'm being cheeky; I mean closing down and bringing up all relevant applications, their state (open windows, tabs, files...) and so on for working on a given task or project.<p>Sort of like a workspace manager for the OS.
Releasing an open beta this fall.<p>There's a short, low-res demo that kinda illustrates the basic concept on <a href="https://cleave.app" rel="nofollow">https://cleave.app</a>
A Chrome extension that quickly checks websites for common problems (e.g. broken links, invalid HTML): <a href="https://www.checkbot.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.checkbot.io</a><p>I wrote it to help with websites I was working on.