Category: Productivity

I’ve been reading the Joe Glines weekly friday newsletter and it had an item in it about using Quick Access Popup (QAP) for auto filling in forms. I have setup a couple of Auto fill forms for some of my CPD requirements for registering and I’ve assigned them to hotkeys. Whilst this is great I

I was doing a regular check on free productivity tools and came across this video: The 2 items that interested me was a Text expander Espanso and Program launcher Flow Launcher. Both are available on Github for free. Espanso Text Expander Espanso seems to be like AutoHotKey but is cross platform so can be used

I came across the following and it seems to be a useful place to store things like passwords and other private stuff that you can use across devices. It relies on you having the password on your site, not stored with the encrypted database. This is the info about it ProtectedText is an free online

I’m hunting around for a color accordion/spoiler as the current one is gray and a bit bland. I found the ultimate shortcode plugin had extra css to put in and that got the job done, I’d tried a few other plugins including Cosmic Blocks but am really happy with the solution as it reduces extra

I have a multi-pronged approach to investigate at this point: Identifying and testing the software keys and getting them to work Making them generic so that I can share them Look at licensing file setup for program and start testing/compiling/testing- Yearly subscription or buy outright? Look at modular add-ons for program- basic plus add-ins to

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. I read this article How to Use Obsidian as a Personal Wiki on Your Computer. I’m looking for a general note file item that I can use, and since it uses local files I thought this might be

This is a productivity tool similar to QAP (Quick Access Popup) and you can trigger a pop-up menu with a hotkey or a mouse gesture. There is an editor where you can put a list of things like files/folders/URL’s etc , the nice thing is there is a little memo pop-up as well. I found

This program’s website seems to be defunct. So I think its not on sale anymore. A shame as its a pretty smart & versatile program and has its own scripting language for some tasks. It is basically a clipboard where you can save items for use later and do things with the items that you

I usually groan when I have to use Word. I find it too rich in features for what I need for writing and it is usually the default program in most offices. I struggle to use it as I get into all sorts of mess trying to do simple things like List numbering and a

I have been using WordPress for a while now, usually intermittently to write some posts and I also use Blogger. I do find some of the methods of altering basic text a bit of a pain, and am pretty disappointed with some of the Keyboard Shortcut s that are on offer: I saw this video