Productivity Tips for Everyday Life

Some productivity tips when you work with computers: text expanders, launchers, custom keyboard shortcuts and more.

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1. Productivity Tips for Everyday Life Sebastian Witowski
2. Text expanders autohotkey.com espanso.org
3. Why?
4. Text expanders • Replace signs that are not on your keyboard Torbjorn → Torbjørn eur → €
5. Text expanders • Replace signs that are not on your keyboard • Expand commonly typed phrases ,br → Best regards, \nSebastian ,address -> {inserts my full address} ,shrug -> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
6. Text expanders • Replace signs that are not on your keyboard • Expand commonly typed phrases • Insert whole templates: • Monthly email to my accountant with the list of expenses • Canned response to recruiters saying how lovely Statkraft is • Lorem ipsum
7. Text expanders ‼ I use "," as prefix for normal words, when they should be expanded. So "address" should not be expanded, but ",address" should. ‼ • Replace signs that are not on your keyboard • Expand commonly typed phrases • Insert whole templates: • Monthly email to my accountant with the list of expenses • Canned response to recruiters saying how lovely Statkraft is • Lorem ipsum
8. Caps Lock Esc
9. Map Esc to Caps Lock You don't use Caps Lock anyway Even some keyboard makers already realized that!
10. What if I need to turn on the Caps Lock?
11. Caps Lock Esc
12. Or use a different key combination (e.g. both Shifts)
13. Make your own keyboard shortcuts
14. Hyper, Meh and more Hyper ⌘⌃⌥⇧ Meh ⌘⌃⌥ Multimedia keys Unused keys
15. Shortcuts for WHAT? • Start frequently used applications • Mute/unmute microphone • Toggle "Do not disturb" status • Control music • Open commonly used URLs in the browser • etc.
16. Launchers 🚀🚀🚀
17. Launchers are cool
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28. Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/switowski Thanks! Questions?