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Send a link, the other person picks an open slot themselves, and the meeting lands on both calendars. A built-in Google Calendar feature almost nobody knows about.
Don't arrange a meeting time over email. Google Calendar and Outlook lay attendees' calendars side by side, and you spot the open slot at a glance.
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One letter instead of clicking: C for a new event, T for today, D/W/M to switch views, J and K to page through. A question mark shows every shortcut.
Google Calendar and Outlook can both show a second time axis next to your own. Plan a meeting across time zones by looking, not by doing math in your head.
A cable that falls behind the desk every time you unplug it is a daily micro-frustration. An office clip and a few reusable cable ties end it for good.
API response as one unreadable line of mush? jq formats it, colors it, and pulls out exactly the field you're looking for.
Right-click a tab for “Close other tabs” or “Close tabs to the right.” And Ctrl+click selects multiple tabs at once.
A password your browser once saved can be revealed anytime — uncovering a login you thought was lost for good.
Gmail turns an open email into a Calendar event in three clicks — with the subject as the title and a link back to the conversation.
Gmail can forward an email as an .eml attachment — even ten messages at once. The recipient gets the originals, headers and all, not a mangled copy.
A hidden Gmail setting adds a second button to Reply that sends the email and tidies the conversation out of your inbox in one move. One click instead of two.
An urgent fix comes in and your code is half-finished? git stash tucks it away in a drawer, git stash pop brings it back. No half-baked commits.
Bad reset, deleted branch, a rebase gone wrong? git reflog shows the history of everywhere HEAD has been — and lost commits can be brought back.
Files from your system and editor don't belong in every project's .gitignore. Set up a global ignore file instead — it applies to every repository.
A forgotten file or a typo in the message doesn't need a new commit. --amend rewrites the last one, as if the mistake never happened.
One file has both a bug fix and an unrelated cleanup? git add -p walks through the changes chunk by chunk and asks what belongs in the commit.
Ctrl+click on sheet tabs groups them — and whatever you type into one gets written into all of them. Fix twelve monthly sheets in one move.
Switching back and forth between the sheet with source data and the sheet with results? View → New Window shows both at once.
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Copying a table with hidden rows and they paste in too? Alt+; selects only the visible cells — the hidden ones stay home.
“You froze” usually doesn't mean slow internet — it means unstable Wi-Fi. An Ethernet cable is the single most reliable upgrade for calls.
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Built-in read-aloud with surprisingly natural voices. Listen to an article while cooking or on the way home from work.
Put the meeting window on the monitor with the camera, notes and materials on the other. You look people in the eye, never share anything private, and minutes write themselves.
Don't upload a corrected PDF as another file. Manage versions swaps it out under the same link — for everyone who has it.
When everyone in a shared document just rewrites directly, changes get lost and nobody knows who deleted what. Suggesting mode turns edits into proposals to approve.
Mention a colleague in a comment and check Assign — a remark turns into a task with an owner, one that can only be resolved once it's done.
An insurance claim or a warranty issue comes up once a year — which is exactly why you can never find the paperwork. One cloud folder shared with your partner fixes it for good.
In-depth guide · 19 min
A complete guide with prompts: Claude writes the lyrics, Suno writes the music — a family anthem, a lullaby, a tooth-brushing song, even a birthday tradition. And it works for free, too.
The most effective note-taking format doesn't need a template: fold a margin for questions and leave a line at the bottom for a summary. Your notes turn themselves into a practice test.
In-depth guide · 15 min
An explainer with prompts: what it means to let AI run in a loop, what's true in the hype, what's overblown, and how to safely try your first loop.
You don't have to build a bibliography by hand, and you shouldn't leave it to AI either. ZoteroBib generates a citation from a URL, DOI, or ISBN, and Google Scholar offers one for every result.