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Boosting Productivity With a Timer

October 16, 2007 /

Using a timer for writing? I’m not sure if it will boost productivity, but at least you can use it to track yourself and measure your progress.

With the introduction of a $10 countdown timer that one can purchase in any housewares department, we can create our own artificial deadlines that create that sense of urgency for us. By setting the timer for 15 minutes to allow us to complete a task, it seems easy to focus and weed out the unimportant. When I use this technique, I get much more work done and I hear myself telling others, “Call me back in 30 minutes. I’m in the middle of something!” Productivity soars.

Read more at: Open Loops: Boosting Productivity With a Timer

Deleting entire words in a keystroke

October 18, 2006 /

A productivity boost for all writers — deleting entire words in a keystroke:

Hot off the presses from Lifehacker headquarters LA (i.e., just discovered this morning in my dining room-cum-office) comes my favorite new keyboard shortcut, Control-Backspace (Windows)/Option-Delete (Mac).

Ctrl-Backspace/Option-Delete will delete the entire word to the left of your cursor in one keystroke, meaning no holding down and waiting to individually delete every letter from Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious – the swift shortcut will take care of the whole word in one fell swoop. Source

Storing Your Files on the Go

October 3, 2006 /

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If you’re like me, you find yourself working on multiple computers, and lugging a USB stick around can be a pain (what if you forget it?). Moreover, what if you lose your ISB stick?

Answer: use Box.net to store your writing documents and have them accessible from any PC or Mac.

This article shows how to connect to Box.net via the Mac Finder, giving you desktop access to a free, mountable 1 Gig online storage account. In a nutshell:

1) Get a box.net account.
2) In the Mac Finder select the GO menu then choose Connect to Server (Or Command-K).
3) Put in the address: https://www.box.net/dav
4) When it prompts, put in your Box.net username as your name and your Box.net password in the password field.

That’s it, look on your desktop. There should be a new connection mounded on your hard drive called dav.

Here’s an article for connecting to Box.net under Windows XP.

The secret is a web protocol called WebDav, which both XP and Mac support, and Box.net now provides as one of their many ways to access your Box.net file storage.

Writely Keyboard Shortcuts

September 9, 2006 /

Here are some helpful shortcuts for those of you using Writely to compose your works.
FROM THE EDITOR MENU:

  • Ctrl S to Save
  • Ctrl K to Insert Link
  • Ctrl M to Insert Comment

FROM THE BROWSER:

  • Ctrl B to Bold
  • Ctrl I to Italicize
  • Ctrl-Z to Undo
  • Ctrl-Y to Redo
  • Ctrl A to Select All
  • Ctrl C to Copy
  • Ctrl V to Paste
  • Ctrl X to Cut
  • Ctrl Home to go to the top of the document
  • Ctrl End to go to the end of the document
  • Ctrl Alt-? to select the next word
  • Ctrl Alt-? to select the previous word

OTHER TIPS:

  • To count the number of words in your Writely doc, just select “Edit” > “Count Words.”
  • Another handy shortcut is Shift Enter. This keyboard combination adds a carriage return that stays only one-line high when you export the document from Writely.
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