Tag: productivity

The most elegant TODO list

Yesterday I came across a really elegant solution to the TODO list problem.  I tried it out and got immediately hooked!  If you are one of those people who practice variations of Zero Inbox approach – especially with your Desktop icons, I strongly recommend you try it out.

After using it for a few hours, I however patched it up a bit.  Here is mine.  It’s the same approach, just slightly more tilted towards my needs.  More specifically:

  • Use directories instead of empty files.  Empty files are handy for any notes you need to throw into the TODO item, but directories are even more useful, cause I can drop related files into there and then get rid of all of them in one go, once the task is done.
  • Run “todo” without any parameters to get the list of TODO items.

Chrome DevTools : Authoring & development workflow

Via this Habrahabr article (in Russian) I’ve learned way more about Chrome DevTools than I knew before.  Code snippets is a useful feature that is available in pretty much every code editor, but seems to be more useful in the environment, where the snippets can actually be executed.  Also, Workspaces mapping of the resources in the browser session to the local files is a game changer.  Watch this video to learn even more.

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Capsule – developer’s scratch pad

I’ve just learned about Capsule, and I think you should too.

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It is based off WordPress, and does sound interesting.  But the two best things about it, I think, are that a developer can keep it private, and that a developer can connect his own Capsule to multiple Capsule servers.  That ought to be a killer feature, as the only two arguments that I’ve heard from developers trying to make them blog more were, if only I had a better way of organizing my private code snippets, and if only I could share them privately with project teammates.

P.S.: I am also a big fan of using P2 theme for WordPress, which works wonders for project teams.  But Capsule seems to be an even better tool for developer kinds.