Feeling overwhelmed by your daily tasks? In this episode, we dive into practical, easy-to-implement automation strategies that will help you win back precious time every single day. Discover how small tweaks, from optimizing your browser to streamlining your morning routine, can lead to massive productivity gains. We'll share actionable examples and personal insights to help you automate your way to a more efficient and fulfilling day.
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- 🔧 Top 3 Productivity Resources [02:38]
- 🧠 A simple mindset shift that makes automation feel effortless [06:15]
- ⚡️ Real-life automations we use that save time and energy every single day [15:41]
- 🔁 How small tweaks can turn routine into something that runs itself [32:09]
- 📆 The surprisingly simple habit that keeps everything on track [40:24]
Links:
- Shopify
- Notion Agent
- Gusto
- Lindy
- EooCoo Office Desk Timer Cube Visual Pomodoro Timer
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
- meross Outdoor Smart Plug
- 5 Examples of Tasks You Can Automate To Save Yourself An Hour a Day (TPS262)
- Comet AI Browser
- Elgato Stream Deck MK.2
- Keyboard Maestro
- Alfred
- Raycast for Windows
- Velja
- BrowserTamer
- 25X Productivity Coaching
- Productivity Academy
- The Productivity Show on Youtube
- The Productivity Show Youtube Clips
- Become a member of TPS+
- Take the Productivity Quiz
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At 16:00, choosing a profile in Chrome was discussed. Brave Browser also allows you to choose a specific profile when you open it, but I use Firefox, and although Firefox has a profile manager, it doesn't, as far as I know, allow you to choose a specific profile when you start up Firefox.
On a Mac, if you want Firefox to always open the profile chooser automatically each time, here’s what to do:
Quit Firefox completely.
(Cmd + Q to ensure no background processes remain.)
Open Finder, then press:
Cmd + Shift + G
and paste:
~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/
In that folder, open the file named profiles.ini in a text editor (e.g. TextEdit or BBEdit).
Find the line that says:
StartWithLastProfile=1
and change it to:
StartWithLastProfile=0
Save the file and restart Firefox.
At 24:33 in the podcast, opening a set of tabs in a browser for a particular task was discussed. An extension I liked for this purpose is Tabs Stash.