The podcast is a short-format that explains the problem, the tool as a solution and some side notes.
Example: "File renaming is annoying and complicated. Then I found the `renameutils` package and from that i use qmv. It opens your favourite editor with the names of all files you want to rename. Once you are done with the modifications, you close the editor and the files are renamed. That's it! Enjoy!"
I actually started it as I just LOVE cli tools and want to spread some love for them. Also I love telling people about them and so many people were thankful for the hints and later-on told me "oh that tool saved me so much time! i love it." And the podcast is just the idea to spread the knowledge of those tools
Anki: Maybe not underrated, but seems like it only really took off in language-learning circles. I create a card for anything new that I'd like to retain, and have been doing so for almost 10y now. Really multiplies the long-term value of sitting down and learning, since I can be relatively certain that I'll keep the knowledge with me for a long time. Particularly useful for papers.
It requires a bit of rigour but it's helped my intellectual productivity immensely.
I'd love to add an LLM layer onto this at some point but haven't done that yet.
- paper (especially in the form of A5 paper notebooks used as lab diaries)
- reading
- listening
- writing
- drawing
- plain text files (together with text editors and UNIX tools)
- full text search
justfile to avoid typing long commands.
sleek to format sql.
and many more.