![]() How about a clipboard that remembers hundreds or thousands of things and keeps remembering after you reboot? Or how about a clipboard that can be searched across months of copies? What about being able to copy 20 things and then paste them someplace else in the order they were copied? Want to paste plain text? Now there are a number of ways to recover from this, but the simplest way is to use a clipboard that remembers more than one thing. Let me copy her email and BOOM!!! Bye bye text from Source A. Anzhelika's email cannot be spelled manually by human hands. ![]() You copy and close Word because you like an uncluttered desktop and you are obsessive compulsive about system resources. You copy the text from Source A which happens to be in a Word document which takes a minute or so to load if you are lucky enough to have a quantum space computer from NASA. You are doing some task where you need text from Source A to paste into Source B. It's a one trick pony and you need a stallion. I just want to point out that you don't have to be content with the clipboard you've been granted out of the box. I'm not going to go into detail on 20 different apps that manage your clipboard, there are plenty of resources online for that. It is invaluable and at the same time, grossly inadequate. ![]() You can also continue to use the select and right click mouse combo which is a neon flag that you need an intervention NOW or will soon die from carpal tunnel. I won't call out the keys because it varies from OS to OS and you can easily look that up (if. If you had to guess, what do you think is the most commonly used keyboard shortcut? My guess is the combination that maps to cutting and pasting. I think most people would agree that keyboard shortcuts are a huge productivity booster. ![]() Objective 2: Pay it forward with a tip on the single most important "add-on" to your computing life. I can only find this tool from the invite email which must be a tactic of higher intelligence or a severe UX oversight. I further believe its exclusive because I can't for the life of me find a link to "Posts" within LinkedIn. LinkedIn sent me an invite to join and I think I'm part of an exclusive group given I've been an OG on LinkedIn since 2004. Objective 1: Check out LinkedIn's new publishing platform. To be honest, my true objective here is to. There is no shortage of writeups on productivity stuff on the interwebs. I'm not sure if this will be my first and last productivity post here on LinkedIn. Or perhaps they appease me with an "Oh, I'll check that out." only to be enduring the same pain weeks or months later. What's shocking is how many people display the universal sign for "I'm choking", but end up pushing me away when I go in for the heimlich. I feel that it is my civic duty to intervene. Watching this go down is like nails on a chalkboard for my eyes. I've met a lot of technology professionals in my 16+ years in IT and it never ceases to amaze me how many people are content with performing mind numbingly repetitive computing tasks and think nothing of it. Funneling mental effort through a keyboard and mouse is tedious enough, especially when every aspect of your job must flow through a myriad of electronic devices. My obsession with apps and productivity tools stems from my insatiable desire to be more productive with less friction.
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