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Then anyone can install it, no friction, and over time it'll slowly start making you gently more productive.
This is cool but I see so many posts in HN about “hacks” that increase productivity/save time that it makes me anxious. I don’t know if it’s our field or just life these days but I would really love a more relaxed approach to work (or life in general?). It feels like I’m in a race and struggling to keep up with the pack.
I did this sort of thing quite a lot early in my career, but stopped quite a long time ago. The problem is that I started using multiple machines running different OSes, and not all of those machines are "mine", so I couldn't have these sorts of specializations everywhere. That turned a positive into a negative when using machines that didn't have these optimizations.
I haven’t done what you or the author have, but one workaround this is using something like QMK or ZMK. Especially the Leader key on QMK. Thanks for the post though, I need to do some analysis of my own typing habits to automate them
Creating a layer for this sort of typing would also be really cool and not having to use that leader key the entire time.
This is cool but I see so many posts in HN about “hacks” that increase productivity/save time that it makes me anxious. I don’t know if it’s our field or just life these days but I would really love a more relaxed approach to work (or life in general?). It feels like I’m in a race and struggling to keep up with the pack.
I did this sort of thing quite a lot early in my career, but stopped quite a long time ago. The problem is that I started using multiple machines running different OSes, and not all of those machines are "mine", so I couldn't have these sorts of specializations everywhere. That turned a positive into a negative when using machines that didn't have these optimizations.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Classic_Speedwriting/wiki/list108/
This is neat! I've thought about doing something similar with my shell history to help me figure out which shell aliases I should create.
> I've thought about doing something similar with my shell history to help me figure out which shell aliases I should create. Same here, I end up doing `h | grep "(something about the command)` a lot to get commands with specific options, etc. and think "damn i should really make an alias for this" every single time, but never get around to it
https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin
*: shameless plug, I’m one of the maintainers
Idea for extending this: keylogger (yeah, that's a downside...) that'll watch what you type, learn common phrases, identify common ones, then come up with shortcuts, then each time you type the full phrase it gently reminds you of the shortcut. Then anyone can install it, no friction, and over time it'll slowly start making you gently more productive.
In other words, rather than using them merely to identify words to abbreviate and suggested abbreviations, why not use an LLM that can take a bunch of abbreviated text and infer what you're trying to abbreviate?
Tht wy, u dn't hv 2 mem lsts f abbrs ahd f tm.
ChatGPT was able to successfully guess that last sentence in abbreviated form:
That way, you don't have to memorize lists of abbreviations ahead of time.
If you're going to use models, why not models all the way through? In other words, rather than using them merely to identify words to abbreviate and suggested abbreviations, why not use an LLM that can take a bunch of abbreviated text and infer what you're trying to abbreviate? Tht wy, u dn't hv 2 mem lsts f abbrs ahd f tm. ChatGPT was able to successfully guess that last sentence in abbreviated form: That way, you d…