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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • Personal experience, obviously:

    1. enforce time limits on apps (like 45 min messaging/social per day), e.g. using built-in tools => frees a lot of time
    2. streamline communication, i.e., do not be available 24/7 for mail, chat, etc. Instead, define time windows to check and answer your channels
    3. Use some Pomodore timer [1] to focus on specific tasks for a few hours. Minimize distractions as far as possible in that time window.
    4. Sleep. Working tired is a black hole for time management.
    5. Do sports/seek nature to keep the stress level down.
    6. Plan honest to your capabilities, sometimes the 80% solution will do (yes, this can be hard to accept)
    7. A simple hand-written checkboxed ToDo list per day is helpful, take 5-10 minutes to compile it before your day starts.

    [1] Goodtime









  • I always found the actual challenge to decide what to get rid of once the duplicates where found.

    Some tools I tried would also ask file-by-file, which I found a bit useless for thousand of files. Yet, I cannot even express a set of rules to decide this in general, so I’m not blaming the tools.

    In particular, with picture collections I also came to the conclusion that some redundancy is probably ok rather than accidentially deleting data that I duplicated on purpose and simply forgot why.




  • Just wanted to add that it’s a music sequencing/composition/recording tool. I also bought it some 20 years ago and they really delivered the lifetime free upgrade thing - bought some upgrades and plug-in packs now and then nonetheless - - great tool. I feel that presently, I use roughly 20% of its features, but I never find the time to dig deeper.

    edit: refering to the Desktop version