AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to streamline your work?

4 points

6 years ago

I love finding ways to save time on processes I repeat often. I feel like the setups I have now save a good chunk of time while working, but I'm always looking for new tools to incorporate. My list:

- Vim

   - The plugin for Intellij primarily
 - Notion.so (https://www.notion.so/)
   - for general note-taking, planning, documenting
 - Karabiner Elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/)
   - Rebind capslock to work as a modifier
     - caps + hjkl = left, down, up, right
     -  + 1 = escape
     -  + 2 = Alfred search
 - Alfred Powerpack (https://www.alfredapp.com/)
   - Clipboard manager + snippets
   - Search
     - bookmarks
     - prefixes for searching on Sumologic, Jira, Confluence, etc.
 - LazyGit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit)
   - great for quick commits, branch switching, creating new branches and opening PRs
   - not the best for reviewing actual changes though
 - Chrome extensions
   - Quick tabs (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfeinjfmenlddahdjdmgpbokiacbbb?hl=en)
     - Not something I use much, but makes switching back to the previous tab pretty easy
   - Vimium (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb?hl=en)
     - Found this while looking for an extension that would offer VIM keybindings for any given text input. Vimium doesn't do that but does offer a number of helpful bindings for navigating
     - I don't actually use it much other than to use "gg" and "G" to scroll to the top or bottom of pages. Marking is also pretty helpful
 - Iterm2 (https://iterm2.com/)
 - Oh My Zsh (https://ohmyz.sh/)
  - I've used this pretty much the entire time I've used zsh so I honestly can't remember which features it adds
 - Hotkey to edit current terminal command in Vim (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6620/how-to-edit-command-line-in-full-screen-editor-in-zsh)
  - Makes it waay easier to fix a typo or update something in a long command

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- The plugin for Intellij primarily - Notion.so (https://www.notion.so/) - for general note-taking, planning, documenting - Karabiner Elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/) - Rebind capslock to work as a modifier - caps + hjkl = left, down, up, right - + 1 = escape - + 2 = Alfred search - Alfred Powerpack (https://www.alfredapp.com/) - Clipboard manager + snippets - Search - bookmarks - prefixes for searching on Sumologic, Jira, Confluence, etc. - LazyGit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit) - great for quick commits, branch switching, creating new branches and opening PRs - not the best for reviewing actual changes though - Chrome extensions - Quick tabs (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfeinjfmenlddahdjdmgpbokiacbbb?hl=en) - Not something I use much, but makes switching back to the previous tab pretty easy - Vimium (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb?hl=en) - Found this while looking for an extension that would offer VIM keybindings for any given text input. Vimium doesn't do that but does offer a number of helpful bindings for navigating - I don't actually use it much other than to use "gg" and "G" to scroll to the top or bottom of pages. Marking is also pretty helpful - Iterm2 (https://iterm2.com/) - Oh My Zsh (https://ohmyz.sh/) - I've used this pretty much the entire time I've used zsh so I honestly can't remember which features it adds - Hotkey to edit current terminal command in Vim (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6620/how-to-edit-command-line-in-full-screen-editor-in-zsh) - Makes it waay easier to fix a typo or update something in a long command