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Software which best and most nearest to Sapience is
Rescue time - The free version does everything you need. It's intended use case is to see how productive you are being, and with pro to remind you to stay on task, as opposed to monitoring as you require, so it probably won't be ideal. [Edit: I personally use it to see how productive I'm being, and like ...
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if your routine going on for sometimes then it is really the time to break out of your routine now. yes breaking your project into small pieces as pointed out by @gekkostate will definitely help.
1) i think that taking some sort of a break is also important to bring the motivation back for example if you can take 1 month all fun trip to somewhere leaving ...
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You'll be a better programmer if you have experience of multiple programming paradigms and different techniques (server-side, web etc.). That said, some programmers who know just one thing (like Cobol programming) will thrive because of great demand for such specific skills.
To say that other development experience doesn't count for an iOS position is ...
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have a problem you need to solve that a form will help with
thoroughly understand the problem
draft a form that solves at least part of the problem
apply good human factors design principles to the form
optionally, apply good graphic design principles to the form
test the form in practice. If it doesn't work, repeat from #3
This is a somewhat ...
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I don't know Fetchnotes and Simplenote, but I use another tool for the same purpose that seems to meet all your needs: it's called evernote.
I need to be able to sync my notes on my Android cell phone and
various computers.
There is an evernote webapp that runs in your browser, an app on android/windows/mac (and even linux ...
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Motivation is something that someone else can't give you. I've had a similar problem with getting work done. Here are a few things I would suggest to get some work done.
List the benefits of completing the code
Break the code/work into small parts so it doesn't feel long and tedious
I am a programmer myself and this is recurring problem that I face. ...
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Nearly every form on davidseah.com was designed with a general-purpose vector illustration program called Adobe Illustrator. This program allows you to draw shapes and place text. You can also perform operations like grouping, scaling, aligning, spacing and duplicating to a high degree of precision. While Illustrator costs several hundred dollars, there is a ...
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Rep doesn't really mean anything, aside from familiarity and time spent on the system. You can have lots of poor quality answers offset with a few good or simply politically correct answers. 1 good answer makes up for 5 bad answers. Heck, sympathy votes for someone with -6 answers, bumping it up to -3 will even give it a positive net rep. Certainly people ...
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Short Answer: Focusing on one technology is better for getting a job. Learning multiple technologies is better for building a career. Decide which of the two is what you want, and go from there.
Long Answer: Learning multiple technologies will make you a better software developer. No question. If you only focus on one thing, you'll be great at that one ...
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If you are looking for a quick, simple solution you can use a simple text file with markdown markup (that kind of markup you use e.g. here on stackexchange, reddit, ...) and open it in a text editor which can do code folding. In TextWrangler (free and awesome) this will look like this:
Maybe not a solution with many features, but it will be included in ...
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I use taskwarrior and only some methods of GTD (some tasks are assigned a lot of metadata if they are quite simple). Nevertheless here are my ideas:
A simple way to display all the task without a project would be a filter like
task list pro:
or
task new limit:20 pro:
if you prefer only the 20 newest tasks. Make yourself familiar with custom reports, ...
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Let me suggest another software, Launchy (I'm not affiliated with it, but I'm a longtime user).
With its built-in plugin, Weby, running Google with your clipboard contents is literally three keystrokes:
Alt+Space to start Launchy;
Shift+Insert to paste from clipboard;
Enter
The only thing to do is setting Google Search your default plugin:
No ...
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Because you said you are into IT, you might want to take a look at taskwarrior. It is an command line tool which can sync across different machines. Unfortunately, there are no mobile clients at this point.
I prefer taskwarrior because its FLOSS and answers the question "what to do next on project X?" quite well. It also performs well with my personal stlye ...
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Spaces and full screen layouts are great. I use Moom to help arrange my screen as cleanly as possible — there are other tools that let you do the same thing.
But to really make my workflow sing, I use AlfredApp and created keyboard commands to switch to my most used apps. F2 sends me to my code editor, F1 to my broswer. By not taking the second or two it ...
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if you are so concerned about encryption, I don't know any self hosted app that I can assure does this. Maybe you should host your data yourself (usually specialized hosting companies are more careful with this matter). Or maybe just use Dropbox and encrypt the data yourself.
To set up this, you could use files and edit them with Orgmode via Emacs. It works ...
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I use dropbox and an app called BoxCryptor to create an encrypted folder on top of dropbox. I use it to store my passwords in a spreadsheet such that Dropbox can't see them. I also store an outline document there for use with Circus Ponies Notebook on my multiple Macs/iPhones. That's my secure solution. For To-Do management, I started using Things ...
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I think that a regular forum style will be fine.
I think that on the internet, this current format of question and answer is very useful considering the amount of non-useful posts that could happen, and it will bury down any useful contents.
This current format is working fine here due to very constrictive set of rules, that make most open ended question ...
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I've been using a relatively new app on my iPhone called Everest. You create "dreams" that you want to achieve and within each dream you add steps (in the style of to-dos), text notes, and images. The steps can be set to repeat and you can assign dates for completion. As you make progress and add notes or images, Everest keeps track of your journey and ...
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I use an iOS app called Pomio for iPhone and iPad. It records everything and creates a simple timesheet.
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I highly recommend Workflowy.com. It's a web service that is essentially a single page that contains a list of text items. The thing is that the list can be of unlimited depth (it can contain tens of thousands of text items and more). So you can literally outline your whole life there, starting with big sections (projects, thoughts, knowledge base etc.) and ...
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I'm a big fan of MediaWiki (a little hefty for a Wiki, but it's well-supported and open-source, plus I already have a dedicated webserver).
On my personal computer, I keep track of notebooks using Basket Notepad which combines note taking with tagging, hierarchy and if so inclined, custom spatial orientation. Again, open-source, cross-platform and can be ...
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There are a whole bunch of things that satisfy everything but the emacs part of this (Google docs, dropbox, ect) - I'm using a mac and my solution would be to use google docs and then have quickCursor running so that I could edit section of text I wanted in emacs (I currently have it set up to edit everything in vim There are a whole bunch of things that ...
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I'm currently using pocket which seems to meet all the criteria. I've tried it on Chrome, Firefox and Dolphin for an Android 2.2 phone. One of the main advantages is that with your pocket account, you would have your links synced wherever you go and you could easily add more if you've a pocket plugin on the browser that you're working from.
To archive a ...
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ScrapBook and delicious in combination allow tagging and searching. But I mainly save websites via scrapbook to harddisk, if it is a small private website and its online accessibility is not future-proof
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You can do this with a Autohotkey Script or use this Autohotkey compiled software ac'tivaid which has shortcuts to open marked text with distinct search engines. For the latter, after installing it, click "Extensions" in settings and install the "WebSearch" plugin. Then set up your desired search engines. I use it all the time
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I believe that Google Desktop would fit very nicely. When you tap Ctrl twice, it appears a text box on the screen and you can type (or paste) the text and search over the internet and/or your computer (you can configure it).
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correct me if I am wrong, but (imho) the most important part of weekly review should be done by the software which is running inside of your head ;)
I don't think you will be able find some computer program, which will completely replace you in this process...
so once a week you will have to collect, process etc; the best thing software can do for you is:
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Another tool that can help you track how developers spend their time is Time Doctor. This tool tracks effectively all your activities in Real Time and gives you analytics of your workday, which allows you improve productivity and eliminate less productive activities. It is applicable for teams or individuals that want to increase productivity. This gives you ...
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The books say to convert names to images ('Jacqueline' -> a portrait of 'Jacqueline' with a Jackhammer) in order to recall them later, but don't say what to do with the images.
The idea here is that humans are already very good at memorizing images, so once you imagine Jacqueline with a jackhammer, it'll be easy for you to recall this image when you see ...
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What about mind mapping?
There is a lot of mindmapping software out there, commercial and free...
Freeplane is free and a very powerful tool, that can
create hierarchical tree structures only with keyboard commands,
can use html code in nodes,
can add attributes to nodes,
can be extended with groovy scripts and much more.
can easily link to external ...
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