Lifehacker - 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day docx

[...]... Interface Why Plain Text? Install todo.sh Using todo.sh Create a Sortable, Searchable todo.txt List Tasks with todo.sh Prioritize Tasks More Uses for todo.txt Hack 3: Develop Your (Digital) Photographic Memory Tag Your Photos on Flickr Upload Photos to Flickr from Your Camera Phone Your Photo Reference Hack 4: Install Your Personal Wikipedia What You Need What to Do You’re Ready to Go Brief Wikitext Primer... the top As much as possible, I chose to use platform-agnostic software that’s free or modestly priced Most of the hacks are hands-on software tutorials, so read this book near your computer to try them out as you go Pick and choose the tricks that fit you best, and work them into your day You want to be one of those high performers with the best tricks installed in your life You can be You have the tools,... weeks for your favorite band’s next show, set up a reminder for the day before to round up the troops and storm TicketMaster.com Or send yourself a reminder to get reservations the very day they start accepting them for Restaurant Week, or SMS yourself an hour before an eBay auction is scheduled to end ■■ Create a long-term plan and stick to it Say you commit yourself to a year-long savings plan to sock... 11: Build a No-fly Zone Set Yourself up to Get into the Zone Make Yourself Inaccessible Work at Quieter Times and in Zoned-Off Spaces Hack 12: Filter Low-Priority Email Messages Filter Low-Priority Messages Filter CC’ed Messages Hack 13: Clear Your Desktop Windows Mac OS X Hack 14: Make Your House a Usable Home Create a Place for Incoming Stuff Put Items You Need to Remember in Your Path Stow Away Stuff... Elements of a To- Do Task Purge Your List Keep an Auxiliary Someday/Maybe List 198 199 200 200 200 200 201 02_050659 ftoc.qxd 11/9/06 9:46 AM Page xvii Contents Hack 61: Set up a Morning Dash 201 Get One Thing Done First Park on a Downward Slope 201 202 Hack 62: Map Your Time 202 Your Ideal Time Map Sub-Maps Your Actual Time Map 203 204 204 Hack 63: Quick-Log Your Work Day How to Keep Your Work Log... Free A plain text file is a simple and effective way to keep track of your to- do list But you don’t want to fire up a full-fledged text editor like Notepad every time you update or add to your todo.txt file Bypass the time-consuming pointand-click graphical user interface (GUI), and use keyboard commands to search, sort, add, and update todo.txt at the command line The Command Line Interface Before... shown in Figure 1-1 Be sure to check the time zone in which your reminder will be sent (See the Note at the bottom of the Reminders section If the time zone is incorrect, click the Change It link to remedy the situation.) 7 Click the Save button at the bottom of the page to save your event That’s it: you’re guaranteed to always get a message from yourself before your mother’s birthday: “Order flowers... 205 209 Choose Your Timer Adjust Your Dash Employing Constraints Timer Software Applications 210 210 210 211 Hack 65: Control Your Workday 211 Get Your Priorities Straight Stop up Your Time Sinks Make Post-Work Appointments Wrap-up Alerts 212 213 213 213 Hack 66: Turn Tasks into Gameplay7 213 Make It to the Next Level Earn Points Collaborate, Compete, and Reward Bribe Yourself Time Yourself 214 214... text messaging) To get your reminder file started, go to Yahoo! Calendar, sign in with your Y! ID, and then follow these steps: 1 Click the Add Event button at the top of the Calendar The Add Event page opens 2 Name your event in the Title text box — Mom’s birthday, for example 3 Use the drop-down lists to select the date of your event 4 Enter the reminder message you want to receive about your event in... you’ll need to accomplish the task or manage the event 5 Scroll down to the Repeating section, and click the [Show] link to expand it Choose to Repeat Every Year 6 Scroll down to the Reminders section, and click the [Show] link to expand it Click the Send a Reminder option and use the drop-down lists to set it to send you a reminder anywhere from 5 minutes to 2 weeks before your event Choose how to receive . AM Page ii Gina Trapani Lifehacker ™ 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day 01_050659 ffirs.qxd 11/9/06 9:46 AM Page iii Lifehacker : 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day Published by Wiley. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trapani, Gina, 197 5- Lifehacker : 88 tech tricks to turbocharge your day / Gina Trapani. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 97 8-0 -4 7 0-0 506 5-1 . Canada ISBN-13: 97 8-0 -4 7 0-0 506 5-1 ISBN-10: 0-4 7 0-0 506 5-9 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1B/SZ/RR/QW/IN No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in