Dils Blog

Topic

workflow

A collection of 6 issues

Defining Inboxes

I've been collecting my inboxes. I'm looking at ways to reduce, combine or automate how I deal with them. 1. 3 x email boxes, unread and stared mails 2. Facebook notifications and messages 3. Books I've bought but I need to read 4. LinkedIn notifications and messages 5. Twitter notifications

Building a Second Brain

This is not a science fiction post about upgrading your brain with a memory chip. The second brain approach is about elevating your existing stores of knowledge and making some sense of them. Personally I have tons of browser bookmarks, notes and reference files all over the place. This method

Video Calls are Tiring

We have spent the better part of our life on video calls in the last few years. They are for the most part, tiring and unproductive. The more there are in a meeting the less everyone has a say. Let's try to make smaller groups, shorter calls and come online

Automating My Payslip Workflow

Not the need of the hour but I found a neat way to automate saving my payslips 🤑

Seasonal Subscriptions

I’m experimenting with seasonal subscriptions. Companies love subscriptions. It makes their revenue predictable and sometimes we forget to cancel which is a bonus for them. I have also noticed that I tend to use a service like Netflix more since I'm paying for it. Which is not the way

Fixing Firefox Email Shortcut with Hammerspoon

Hammerspoon is a small macOS automation tool. You can write Lua code blocks that can handle keyboard events and more. Firefox used to have a File > Email Link menu that you could assign a shortcut in macOS keyboard shortcuts. One fine day Firefox or macOS moved this under File > Share