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What are some things(or ways) that you use to save time or get things done efficiently? Especially things that would be useful for many and are currently less popular. (lemmy.sdf.org)

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I have recently started using RSS feeds to get news and other information. It is quite time-saving.
Recently found out that word could open pdfs for edits. Used to upload pdfs to websites to get it converted into some editable format. I think Libreoffice can do the same.
Got that spinning type of mop and mopping has become a bit easier.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Learn what the software or device you’re using can do. There’s often so much productivity packed in, you don’t even know what you’re missing.

For example code editors like VSCode or Sublime Text have easy ways to select and work on multiple lines/words at the same time that can make work SO much more productive and fast, it’s like magic. I see other people doing things line by line and it takes ages.

Microwaves have all kinds of presets that people rarely use. Read the manual and try them out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (11 children)

I use VSCodium and other then bulk comment / uncomment and renaming I'm not sure what you're talking about.

I'd love some examples to help improve.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It’s hard to explain in words. I quickly searched for a video about it and this one shows the basics pretty good: https://youtu.be/w3JCjsIOMdM?si=-dS-m940AGHFgCG-

Sublime Text is a bit more powerful in that regard (and also more performant with very large files) which is why I still keep it installed even though I switched to VSCode long time ago. I guess Vim can do even more but I can’t get myself to learn it well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can use regex in vim

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Every serious editor can do Regex

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