Anatoly_Vorobey comments on Lifehack Ideas December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Anatoly_Vorobey 10 December 2014 02:02:37PM 10 points [-]

(I doubt this is original)

To help yourself do something regularly on a computer, put a direct link on your bookmarks bar.

Example: you want to keep a diary. Write it in a Google doc document and put the direct link to it in your bookmarks bar, so that one click is all it takes to open it. Not in your bookmarks somewhere else, not in a shortcut on the desktop (your browser is open all the time anyway), not a separate fancy diary-keeping software, but just one click in a place that's always in front of you. If you're like me, that'll help a lot.

Perhaps anti-intuitively, the difference in results is huge even between "one click in the bookmarks bar" and "one click to open a folder in the bookmarks bar and one click on the right link in that folder".

P.S. Alerts are also good, but this method helps where alerts aren't helpful. You want to train yourself to write a quick review of every book once you finish it. There's no way to set an alert to go off when you turn the last page in Kindle. But put a link on your bookmarks bar.

Comment author: peter_hurford 10 December 2014 03:29:32PM *  6 points [-]

I have a list of sites I visit every day, and I put my diary-project-equivalent in that list of sites. Works wel lfor me.

Comment author: Florian_Dietz 10 December 2014 05:33:34PM 2 points [-]

I do the same. This also works wonderfully for when I find something that would be interesting to read but for which I don't have the time right now. I just put it in that folder and the next day it pops up automatically when I do my daily check.

Comment author: peter_hurford 10 December 2014 06:03:52PM 3 points [-]

Nice. I use Pocket for that.