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This issue we’re helping readers work smarter and harder, so what top tool or tip would you give to readers to help them do this?

Jonni Bidwell

It’s amazing what one can achieve when one turns off social media. There are so many other more interesting avenues of distraction. Oh wait, working smarter... Nextcloud’s Notes app is great for keeping track of websites and words that would otherwise be lost to the vagaries of memory.

Les Pounder

My top tip is to edit your .bashrc file and add handy commands to automatically fetch information. I have set mine up to get the latest news and show the current CPU temperature every time I open a new terminal. You can run any command via .bashrc!

Nick Peers

If, like me, your thoughts and inspirations vanish as quickly as they appear, you need some way of getting them down on (virtual) paper. And what better tool than Joplin

(https://joplinapp.org), which ended my years-long quest for a note-taking tool that does it all? Don’t believe me? Check out our tutorial in LXF260…

Shashank Sharma

Why work smart or hard, when you can get by with only pretending to do so? Always launch tmux session on your terminal with one pane dedicated to a music player, another to monitor the system resource, yet another for reading man pages. Instant busy bee, hard at work!

Alexander Tolstoy

I’m less a ‘work hard, play hard’ person and (much) more a Pomodoro timer user. It’s a great Italian way of fighting endless procrastination and getting things done in time. Give it a try, at least a little bit later!