Hack Your Productivity

Marcus Baw

Leigh Hackspace

todo

add clipboard managers

About Me

GP and Health IT Specialist

Ruby Coder

ex-Anaesthetist and Emergency Physician

BDFL of Leigh Hackspace

About Hackspace

Non-profit shared makerspace

Funded by memberships, courses, commissions

(Not grant funded)

About This Workshop

Simple ideas to speed workflow

Workshop style, hands-on, practical

Everyone needs different things

Peer-to-peer learning & teaching

Be excellent to each other

Password managers

LastPass

When you have an account

When you don't have an account

Password Security

TIP:

Unsubscribe from one email newsletter a week

Keyboard Shortcuts

"Working on a laptop that's connected to the internet is like trying to write on a typewriter that's been welded to a circus."
Andrew O'Neill, Twitter

GTD (Getting Things Done)

“Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.” ― David Allen

Exercise

Pick an "incomplete": What most annoys, distracts, or interests you?

Write down a description of the successful outcome in one sentence. What is your definition of "done"?

Write down the next action to move toward the desired outcome.

Notice how you feel after the exercise compared to before it.

“Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” ― David Allen

5 Stages

Capture Everything!

Clarify

Organize

Plan

Do

"Knowing exactly what you need to get done, and when, frees your mind to think, and be completely in the moment" ― David Allen (paraphrased)

“Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.” ― David Allen

Further Information

Automate things

Zapier

AutoHotKey and AutoKey

Doing Projects

{not project management}

Kanban

Trello

Google Docs

free office suite in the cloud

realtime collaboration

works offline as well

Google Hangouts

Meetings are Toxic

organisations can make decisions in other ways...

people can collaborate in other ways...

Communications Tools

The Four (or is it Six?) Domains of Information and How to Handle Them

Inbox Zero

System for managing email

Instead of being managed by email

"Being able to handle high volumes of email is one of the most important 'soft' skills you can have, if you want a life outside of email"

Delete?

Delegate?

Respond?

Defer?

Delete

Merlin Mann - Who Moved My Brain?

Lifestyle

Mind Fitness

Learning something new, that is not like anything you already know, helps your brain to stay flexible and able to assimilate new ideas and ways of thinking

Body Fitness

Exercise is crucial to wellbeing

light exercise helps maintain health

more heavy exercise can act as a 'reboot' for your brain

Application launchers

Windows: Launchy

MacOS: Alfred

Presentations

Buzzwords = Bullshit

innovation, innovate, stakeholder, blue-sky, overarching, underpinning, vanguard, co-production, engagement, activated, patient-led, integrated, disruptive, transformative, transformation, service-user, empowered, connected, futureNHS, "five-year-forward-view", harness, accelerated, technology, ecosystem, innovator, collective, collaborative, proactive, leveraging, test-bed, [a photo of fake doctor in white coat], [a photo of smiling nurse], [a B&W photo of random unattractive person], [an incomprehensible systems diagram], mHealth, eHealth, iHealth, wearables, data-driven, quantified, "the market", agile, channel shift, roadmap, digital-by-default, [a meaningless but clever sounding quote], [a quote from Jeremy Hunt], maturity, strategy, paper-free, paperless, synergies, "thought-leader", "prime-ministerial", big data, analytics, unleash, ministerial, anonymised, pseudonymised, statement, "benefits realisation", "at scale", deliverables, deliverable,

PowerPoint

It's annoying

It causes thought disorder because it implies hierarchies that don't exist, and distorts the relative importance of information

PowerPoint has been associated with causing the Shuttle Columbia disaster

Prezi