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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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[–] anon6789 30 points 4 months ago

You don't notice the speed in hot keys as you build your familiarity with them, but after years of learning them, it's now painful to watch a good portion of coworkers use computers, as it feels like watching in slow motion.

The mouse dragging, the hunting for menu items, dragging the mouse back to where you were, over and over. It can really add up.

In the same vein, learning to create even basic macros and putting them on hotkeys, either in Office or something like AutoHotkey. There are likely things you go through the same motions to do daily, weekly, etc. Record the steps as a macro.

My old job had basic data formatting from generated reports and then saving the cleaned files to a specific name format and uploading them. Tedious and boring work. I created macros, and all the work was done in less time than it would take to type the filenames. Turned hours of work into seconds.