Productivity tip of the day

[breyten]

I use the Smultron text editor (on OS X) for writing my thesis in LaTeX. One nice feature which I discovered today brings the active buffer into full screen mode, which hides the menu bar and the dock and all pretty much everything else, to turn the editor in basically nothing more than a simple text field. Since you can't see other apps, you less

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[crschmidt]

See my entry today for my alternative: Specifically, install Linux, run evilwm, and only have the stuff you're currently concentrating on on the desktop you're staring at :)

So, LiveJournal gets desktop 5 -- that's posting and reading. Firefox gets desktop 2, chat -- AIM, IRC, and my email, all my most common distractions -- get Desktop 3, work email + news get desktop 4, and whatever I'm working on will go somewhere else, and possibly be moved between them as needed.

It works really well, but it requires a discipline that I haven't figured out how to maintain on OS X -- too few applications actually even allow you to hide the menu bar.