https://4nm.us/tags/productivity/ Recent posts in Productivity from fournm Hugo en-us Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:15:00 +0000 https://4nm.us/posts/2026-01-24-things-i-wish-i-had/ Sat, 24 Jan 2026 15:15:00 +0000 https://4nm.us/posts/2026-01-24-things-i-wish-i-had/ programming personal productivity <p>I&rsquo;ll group them up, but none of these are &ldquo;spec&rdquo; quality thoughts or anything. I just want these to exist. Hit me up on some messenger or whatever if you know of one that I don&rsquo;t.</p> <p>Unrelated to anything, I reach for the word musing too much. Is it too late to make a resolution to be slightly less pretentious?</p> <h2 id="personal-dashboard">personal dashboard</h2> <p>I know that there are a few of these out there, and maybe I just need to try harder into looking at configuring them. I want something that I can easily host that lets me have multiple profiles (me, family members), a public facing page for family level notifications / calendar entries, and then separate personal pages. Something that would make for a really good home page of a browser. I know the APIs of a lot of things have fallen apart and that not nearly as many things as I&rsquo;d like support RSS anymore, but I feel like at a glance email counts, calendar appointments, to do deadlines, new notifications on different platforms, and maybe the ability to set some quick link tiles would be the real goal here.</p> More ... https://4nm.us/posts/2023-windows-11-config/ Sun, 02 Jul 2023 21:45:36 -0700 https://4nm.us/posts/2023-windows-11-config/ windows 11 windows productivity guides <p>This is to keep a record for setting up any new machines I get that happen to be unfortunate enough to have to deal with Windows 11 for some reason on. This&rsquo;ll probably need an update as they force more generative AI nonsense into the OS, but for now, this more or less covers it.</p> <h2 id="why">why</h2> <p>So, so many reasons. Look, I&rsquo;ve used a lot of versions of Windows. It&rsquo;s normally my daily driver OS because of gaming and compatibility at large, but damn, have they made the worst version since Millenium Edition of late.</p> More ... https://4nm.us/posts/2021-05-25-how-i-work-may-2021/ Tue, 25 May 2021 11:19:31 -0700 https://4nm.us/posts/2021-05-25-how-i-work-may-2021/ organization productivity <p>I posted one of these a few years back and started to update it back in 2020, right before the pandemic lockdowns truly kicked off in earnest. As someone fully remote to start, most of my tools and practices haven&rsquo;t really changed &ndash; despite this not being a year of typical remote work at all. While this might have been more helpful at the start, well, all I can say is &ldquo;oops&rdquo; and there have been some higher priority things in my life, and at least now these are all much more heavily tested in a stressful time.</p> More ... https://4nm.us/posts/2016-02-02-how-i-work/ Tue, 02 Feb 2016 21:14:15 -0600 https://4nm.us/posts/2016-02-02-how-i-work/ organization productivity microsoft onenote trello sunrise calendar google keep 2016 <p>I sometimes get questions about how I keep things in my life organized. I&rsquo;ve tried various tools and apps, and the main lesson I&rsquo;ve gotten from trying to use a single tool for everything is that life is complicated. What may be a flawless tool for one use case is an endless source of frustration for another, making me want to avoid using it for anything. Any source of friction makes it that much harder to keep momentum when you&rsquo;re dealing with executive dysfunction issues, meaning that some of these might not see daily use even though they&rsquo;re incredibly valuable for the roles they do serve.</p> More ...