David Laietta - Cool Tools to Manage Online Work I believe that it is becoming more important every day to leverage technology to improve productivity. We all have increased demands on our time, and multi-tasking doesn’t do much to help efficiency. This talk will cover tools that I use to automate tasks or enhance productivity, as well as alternatives where applicable for various operating systems and price points. You will learn about ways to improve: - Handling email - Notifications - Organizing your computer workspace - Staying informed - Creating custom workflows - Even more!

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Cool Tools to Manage
Online Work

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How would you describe
programmers in one word?

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LAZY

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Building Websites

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Setting Up New Sites…
• Deleting Sample Content and Widgets
• Creating a homepage and setting it to front page
• Creating a blog page and setting it to blog
• Creating Default Pages
• Creating and setting up a menu with these pages
• Creating a “News” category and setting it to default
• Installing Default Plugins and Themes
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Vagrant and VVV
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http://obm.io/vvv-custom

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Free, Open Source Icons
• FontAwesome - https://fontawesome.com/
• Feather Icons - https://feathericons.com/
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More Development Time Savers
• Keep a library of reusable code
• Work with the same tools as much as possible
• Invest in the proper tools for the job
• Constantly enhance your workflow
• Backups - BackupBuddy, UpdraftPlus, BackWPUp
• Security - Sucuri Scan, iThemes Security, WordFence
• Maintenance - iThemes Sync, ManageWP, InfiniteWP
• Misc - Yoast SEO, Gravity Forms, Advanced Custom Fields, etc.
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Productivity

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Alfred Expansions

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Alfred Expansions

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Trello - https://trello.com/
• Trello Butler - https://butlerfortrello.com/
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Calendly - https://calendly.com/
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Phone Notifications & Texting
• Turn off notifications!
• Do Not Disturb - Android and IOS
• PushBullet - https://www.pushbullet.com/
• MightyText - https://mightytext.net/
• Signal - https://whispersystems.org/
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IFTTT - If This, Then That
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Managing Your Computer

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Alfred App is Amazing
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Window Management
• Mac - Spectacle - https://www.spectacleapp.com/
• Windows - Snap (built in to Windows 8 & 10)
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Tasker (Android) Workflow (iOS)
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