How to use Internet products correctly

Since the Internet, our lives have become more convenient. users are using excellent products, sometimes inadvertently spend a lot of time, but the gains are far less than expected. How to properly use these Internet products, it is worth every one of the network fans to ponder.

About two years ago, I was a heavy user of IM. Every day landing on the Ali, joined a lot of groups, a group of what news, can reply is always quick reply. At that time, using a software statistics, found that at least 3 hours a day in the use of Wang Wang. This statistic really startled itself, and later made the following adjustments:

1. Exit unnecessary group. From more than 30 groups, reduced to about 10. Feel that they do not help the group, bold retreat is good, there will be no loss, the only need is courage and determination.

2, some groups really bad retreat, or occasionally need to relax, Ali has a very intimate setting: Only receive not to remind. In this way, the initiative is in your hands. Occasionally stuffy, go to chat also good. The necessary feelings to dredge or beneficial, especially the mm many groups.

3, only a number of very important groups, such as security, stable work-related, will retain the reminder function. In this way, when there is a major failure occurs, can be timely informed and the investigation.

4, Next is: Forever online, but always stealth. Because of the need for work, open Ali in many cases still helps work. Take the stealth status, can control the initiative in their own hands. In a really urgent matter, colleagues will call or human flesh come over. Messages on the will are generally processed asynchronously.

5, in addition, the use of Mac Wang Wang, all the windows and other reminders and ads can be thoroughly filtered out, never interfered.

In short, take the initiative to use IM, instead of being IM used. QQ and Gtalk and so on, micro-letter is the same. Zhangxiaolong's wish is great: it is better for no one to use the micro-letter. My understanding of this is that no one should waste a lot of time on micro-letters, and most of the time on micro-letters should be spent on valuable communication or valuable information. I hope this wish will be realized soon.

I love the Web mail system, and I haven't used client tools like Outlook years ago. have been using Gmail to send and receive all kinds of mail.

1. Inbox is the inbox. The processed messages are deleted or archived immediately. This is a sense of achievement, every time the task of opening Gmail is to let Inbox empty.

2, for * * Important mail, will add a star * *. Now Gmail default also has the priority function, can according to your usage habit, automatic partial message priority raise. When there is a large number of new mail, it is very convenient to handle.

3, without any tag to manage. Zhangxiaolong says a good product should avoid getting users involved in management. Very much. In Gmail, through powerful search, tag and category are clouds.

4. After switching from Exchange to Alimail, it is also recommended that you give up Outlook clients and embrace webmail mode. It's good to concentrate on time. You have not encountered a message that must be answered in a timely manner.

In short, take the initiative to deal with the message, rather than being processed by the message. Of course, this is related to the nature of the job. For me, for most programmers, I believe this can improve time utilization.

I now basically only on Sina Weibo, seems to be an activist, in fact, I spend not much time on it. By week, the average is less than half an hour. The main methods are as follows:

1, the micro-blog when the media to see. Micro Bo really do it, stay indoors, and know the world. If the product to Zhuge Liang know, must envy death. With Weibo, I never went to the portal site (as if I didn't have a microblog or a portal). I only use the web version of the microblogging, because it can effectively take the initiative in their own hands, the second is because the web version of the microblogging page on the right side of a hot topic. Once a day or a week to glance, know the world, for me, enough.

2, the microblogging as a guest book to play. The social networking of Weibo, for me, is a guest book that can be added by oneself. Sina Weibo group is a good feature, I built an "acquaintance" group, which only I think it is worth reading, only a small number of subscriptions. In this way, a day of reading is very small, often have nothing to read. In addition to the "acquaintances" group, there is a more time-consuming view of comments and forwarding. Now basically just look at the comments, do not look forward. Forwarding a lot of content and the repetition of comments, Sina Weibo how not to do it heavy?

3. Use Weibo as a search. Recently, almost every week, the microblogging search Seajs to see if there are any new discussions, new information. Sincerely hope that Weibo can be like Google, the introduction of a Alerts service, with new content, email me. Kai-Fu Lee recently recommended the Pulse Bo network is good, has a keyword subscription function.

Microblogging other features for me are all clouds, occasionally to turn, such as Micro-magazine, but more from the perspective of product analysis.

In short, or the words, take the initiative to use micro-blog, and not be used for micro-blogging. Never believe in the use of bits and pieces of time. All the products that preempt the user's fragmented time are rogues, and the user is poor enough. Weibo is just a pair of gloves and it's good to take with you. Do not take micro-bo as a plane, landing themselves in, and so on when the crash is difficult to think about.

In addition, any interested in improving their professional skills, as far as possible away from the domestic technical Forum. Inside of the noisy impetuous, filled with inferior posts, I do not know how to use words to describe. You may not agree with this passage, but I have my point of view. If you think I'm wrong, it's best to prove you're right.

As a programmer, I currently often on the site is not much, there are Google, StackOverflow, Quora and so on. At present every day stroll only GitHub. GitHub for me is a game park, full of challenges, but also with fun.

This, put to now, seem to need not how to discuss. The last few years spent a lot of time on Google Reader, even a day without itching. Now with the collapse of the blog, RSS in the quality of more and less content, no desire will not invest time, do not worry.

Similar to RSS, there are other sites, such as watercress, know, Pinterest and so on. It seems to me that there is no attraction, watercress is to buy books will go to read the book review, know that the mail is invited to answer questions, occasionally go. Pinterest and other foreign sites, more is the mentality of research products to go, as if not really into the, including Facebook, feeling is a free egg pain site.

Forget that the other function of Weibo is "collection". Feel this is the new era of RSS. On Weibo, you will often see valuable long texts or videos to share. At this time I will use the collection function to collect, then waits for the evening and the weekend, concentrates for a while to read. Just like reading Google reader.

It's not a collection of microblogs, it's more about using Evernote. See the article is worth looking carefully, will be extended through the clearly to the Evernote server, and then eat, before bedtime and other scattered time, through the mobile phone client review.

Another position is the micro-letter of the public account, the current quality is very good, interested can be selective subscription.

Looks like I was a conservative, half a year ago to upgrade the system to Kings Lion, studied for half a day notifications Center, finally decided to completely disable it, the top right corner of the icon also deleted. The IPhone's Push function has been shut out.

Like to use Google Calendar, the first thing to work every day, is planning a good day to do. But also never open reminders, there are meetings or anything, is a long time moji in the heart, rarely forget.

Finally, think of @Macji saying: Once you've had the fun of investing in your work, you're not obsessed with social pleasure. I think it's very good to say that. I have summed up a few points to myself:

1, the best reading is output. For example, I now write this text to get the fun and harvest, far more than on the micro-blog to see 1 million micro-bo strong.

2, the best IM is mail. Always do not like through microblogging or IM to discuss technical issues, more recommended by mail to communicate. By writing emails, you can make your thoughts clearer and more complete, so that the problem can be solved more effectively. In addition to mail, the current code class discussion, very much like GitHub Issues. Markdown format is very elegant, GitHub Issue can automatically get through with the mail, very convenient.

3, the group will let you become the masses. Want to the people, go to Bubble Group bar.

4, asynchronous is better than synchronization. asynchronous allows you to control the initiative in your own hands, asynchronous allows you to set the time freely. For programmers, except for a few things that need to be synchronized, in most cases, asynchrony is the soul of efficiency.

5. Fragments are robbers. The software that grabs the debris time will not help you take advantage of the fragmented time and will only fragment your entire time.

6, read good books over the internet to read. A good book brings people's harvest, often far more than a large number of online reading can bring.

7, let the information find you. Really important information that will take the initiative to your side. Information is going to walk without your own digging. Don't worry about missing information.

8. The Internet is a tool. Don't put your feelings into it, really. The internet is stone, scissors, cloth.

9, reading is for writing, learning is for use. Writing is broadly written: blogging, writing code, and so on. Only in this way can reading be effectively turned into output. Learning is to use, because any learned knowledge, sentiment, if not to use, not to practice, it will always be sentiment, never really flow into your heart, become your strength.

It is said that people who are 30 years old have to go to bed early and get up early to work best.

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For time Management "Road", usually in the Evernote also summed up some, sorted out, for everyone to chew:

1, do not go to squeeze time. Lu Xun said, time is like a sponge, squeeze a squeeze is always there. However, the old to squeeze time, it is easy to benefit short-term, but long-term losses. You see, Lu Xun died young, is likely to be squeezed dead. It is better to have a long term plan than to live more than 10 years or even decades.

2, willing to give up, do not give up. Time is not squeezed out, is planned out. The most important thing in planning is to be willing to give up. This requires constant questioning of your inner heart: What do you really care about? We are all a monkey, maybe want to eat is watermelon, but in the corn field, see the Companions are breaking corn, it is likely to can not help to break. Time management, is to do as much as possible to do not break corn, continue to move the monkeys.

3. Self-discipline and habit. To close to the dream, or to break the corn, need monkey self-discipline. Self-discipline comes from the clear and powerful heart of the goal. Self-discipline brings good habits, habits can help you make difficult things simple, so you can challenge more difficult things. For example, early to bed and early to rise, such as control of micro-blogging time and so on, once you do, you will find that similar things are a piece of cake, there is more time and effort to do what you dream more to do.

4, time can not be managed, only good use. This is a cruel but beautiful fact. Cruelty is because you can not control the passage of time, one day January a year, the sun rises and falls, life is so long. Good is because of fairness, no matter who this world, everyone is the same as the passing of youth. Genius is the product of diligence. You admire someone, you appreciate a certain kind of life, and you want to use the time in the way that you aspire to. Diligence is not an ascetic, you can work hard, you can travel hard, the key to see the heart yearning, see your courage and determination.

5, at this moment, what should be done most. For most pursuing adults, stop and ask yourself at any moment: what is the best thing to do at this moment? The problem is that what you are doing is often not the best answer. Time management, is to know how to stop, ask yourself this question. When the answer and the more you are doing, it is the happiest and most productive happy life.

Note: The original text in https://github.com/lifesinger/lifesinger.github.com/issues/102. Slightly modified.