So tomorrow makes 449 days I have been at home away from the office!
It will be my first day back in my office. I really hope I remembered to turn off the mini fridge in my office.
It should be interesting.
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A few months ago I did a trial on an app on my MacBook Pro called Paste.
I like it so much I subscribed for the yearly price of $9.99!
This app adds so much functionality to my daily Mac and iOS use. I rely on it dozens of times a day to enhance my productivity.
I had previously used other iMac utilities that were free, and they were good, but Paste is so robust as to be essential to my workflow.
I am a Web Developer that works for a university and I am constantly using cut and paste. Building pages, moving content, creating and reusing blocks of CSS and HTML. I also work on a lot of HTML emails.
With Paste, and the history feature, I can easily search for copy, email addresses, website URLs and other pieces of info. It’s quick and easy to find things I have used before. The search function in the Paste app is very good and you can quickly get to what you want.
Here’s a screenshot of the different pasteboards I have created to organize some saved pasted items. you can call them whatever you want.
So, within a pasteboard, you can label the saved items whatever you want. These labels are searchable also.
You can copy images into it and when you copy a hex color code the block it saves is the actual color, which makes them easy to visually search.
To paste one of these items into your document or email or wherever is as simple as hitting return once you have selected the correct one.
You can keep the history forever or choose to keep the history for just the day, the week, the month or the year. There are also custom keyboard shortcuts you can set. You can also do a paste stack, where you copy a number of items, then paste them back in the correct order.
Paste app works on Mac and iOS and the sync is almost instant between the two.
Just try it and you will love it. There’s a 14-day free trial.
Disclosure: I have no connection to this app and do not get a referral. I just really like it.
That’s my office in the photo. It’s on the campus of The University of Texas at Dallas. I now have not been inside the building for over 14 months. The last day in the office was March 16, 2020.
Every morning, I get up, shower, eat breakfast, and get dressed and go to my office and start working at at 8 AM. I get off at 5 PM every day. So that has not changed from before. I decided from the start not to change my work routine. I don’t answer emails or texts from work after 5 PM.
Have I enjoyed working from home (WFH)?
The simple answer is yes, but with a number of pros and cons. Here’s a short list of those.
PROS
- No commute (except walking to our small office)
- Less wear and tear on vehicles
- Save the cost of a parking pass
- More time with my wife
- 8-5 day is now only 8-5
CONS
- Miss my office itself
- No physical interaction with co-workers
- Miss out on events on campus
- Miss walks (daily) on campus
- Amount of meetings virtually has increased at home
I could list many more, but I think overall I have liked it.
It’s currently up-in-the-air when and if I will return to my physical office on campus. It may happen by late August.