What are apps that make it faster to write service design principles?

So if you're writing if you're building your own service design principle library, you will work a lot with text. You will work a lot with a lot of content and The quicker you can get there, the more chances there are that you will continue to build your library and to grow it.

And for that, having little utilities that do some of the work for you is something that is pretty lovely again. One of these apps that I would recommend here. These are Mac based because I'm using a Mac, but I imagine that you can go on a website like Alternative 2 where you type the name Pastebot and then you say, I would like to see an alternative for Windows or Linux.

But so you just have at least one name that you can Google and say I want an alternative for Windows of this type. But what does Pastebot do? It keeps track of everything you copy. Which then helps you to quickly get to your pasteboard and also then transform what you have copied. For example, if you copy a quote, which was written in all caps, it then really helps you quickly to...

Bring it back in a normal way of writing which is pretty useful. So that saves me a ton of time. Pastebot, pretty useful. Another one on Mac is BetterSnapTool. So if you're working with multiple windows on Mac having to rearrange them manually to see all your information, having your notes on one side, having a reference on the other side.

It's a tedious process. And here with just a few shortcuts, you can say, window go left, window, go right, boom. And you can then work super quickly. But that's another thing that is very useful. And a last one will be Hazel. And that's one app that basically moves your files for you around on your computer based on rules.

So for example, for me, the way I use that is I take a lot of screenshots. to show elements of the service design principles that I have seen. And the way my, the Mac works usually is it just puts all the screenshots on your desktop, which then usually then gets very messy if you're like me doing dozens of screenshots per day.

So this Hazel app, what it does is it says after one minute. That a screenshot has landed on the desktop, it puts it on a folder called screenshots and after 24 hours, so the next day it, it goes in the folder of the MyScreenshot and it removes all the screenshots that are older than one day. Which means I don't have to manage all these little screenshots that I make.

They are automatically placed on the right place for me. The same happens for my downloads. This little app goes in my download folder and removes everything from it every day at the end of the day. You can go much further with it, but I think these are little things that can be very useful with these apps.

And that's it. One other part of this idea of building your own service design principal library, which is try to be very efficient in it, because the more efficient you are with it, the more chance there is that you will do it over a long period of time, because it's not a choice.