Tech Productivity Issue #288 (How to Do Great Work)

Issue #288 (How to Do Great Work) 08/19/24

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If you're a regular Mac user, you'll want to check out this tip posted on X by Cameron Moll on how to quickly add items to your Mac menu bar.

As you might already know, you can define what items are visible in your menu bar by going to Settings > Control Center. There you can switch on menu bar access for all the items listed.

But, as Cameron points out, if you click in the menu bar to open the Control Panel (the double-switch icon), you can drag items from that drop-down into your menu bar and they'll be instantly added to it.

Just a simple tip that apparently many on X didn't know about! Maybe it's new to you too and might save you a few mouse/keystrokes.

Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!

Tools & Apps

Text Your Calendar — An integration for WhatsApp and GCal that allows you to plan, optimize, and consult your calendar through texting via WhatsApp.

Contractable — A platform to create, edit, and share personalized legal contracts for various business ventures in just a few easy steps.

HackerPulse — Bring together your GitHub, Stack Overflow, and LinkedIn profiles into a single HackerPulse dev profile. sponsor

superwhisper — An AI-powered voice-to-text converter for iOS and Mac, with support for 100+ languages and works with any app that allows typing or pasting text.

Orion — A lightweight, WebKit-based web browser for iOS and Mac that features native vertical tree-style tabs, tab groups, and built-in ad and tracker blocking.

Saga — An AI-powered workspace that connects your notes, tasks, and tools, so you can explore, connect, and organize information, for you and your team.

Saner.ai — An all-in-one AI-powered ADHD-friendly note-taking and to-do app with a simple design to help you easily note, recall, create insights, and more.

Articles & Resources

6 Ways to Shake Off the Workday So It Doesn’t Ruin Your Precious Evening — Some suggestions on how to destress and make sure you're not allowing work to infringe on non-work activities.

Less ‘I Know What I Like,’ More ‘What’s Working for You?’ — A bit of encouragement to avoid being locked into our comfort zone but instead to consider what can make us grow and experience new things.

Mastering Thinking Skills: Become a Creative Genius — A 6-hour, 44-lesson course to help you reverse engineer the mental frameworks that geniuses from Steve Jobs to Da Vinci used to dominate their fields. sponsor

Why Your Boss Isn't Coming to the Office — Based on a survey of 13,000 office workers in six countries revealing that 48% of higher-ranking employees currently engage in remote work for at least one day per week.

Forcing Yourself to Do a Task vs. Letting Yourself Off the Hook — Provides some motivation to look at these two options in a different way to potentially inspire more interest in a task, rather than viewing this as a black-and-white issue.

How to Do Great Work — 2023 essay by Paul Graham (i.e. crank up the zoom on your browser!) that aims to offer a guide for those wanting to achieve more in any field of work.

The 1 Thing Sleep Doctors Never, Ever Do In The Morning — Referring to lying in bed after your alarm goes off. This makes sense, but it also ruined my entire life's purpose.

Suggestions?

Have a suggestion for a productivity-related tool, article, or other resource? Send me a direct message via X (@LouisLazaris) and I’ll consider including it in a future issue.

Stay productive!

Louis
techproductivity.co
@LouisLazaris

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