5/30/2023 0 Comments Download alfred 4The ultimate goal is to minimise the time delay between the user thinking of a command, and the computer executing that command How would we optimise the process? Well, as I mentioned at earlier, the ultimate goal is to minimise the time between thinking of a command, and the computer executing that command. That may not sound like a big deal, but when we consider the ridiculous amount of time it’s possible to spend on a computer, and the huge number of ‘small actions’ we take during this time, the seconds add up to minutes, hours, days, and ultimately, we’ve wasted years of our lives doing mundane intermediate tasks to achieve our ultimate goal (in this example, simply opening a particular file). In other words, there’s a 10-15 second lag between us thinking “I want to open this file”, and the file being open on the computer in front of us. This whole process of opening the file takes 10-15 seconds. Double-click on ‘Ali Abdaal Part II Project.pdf’.Click on Google Drive in the sidebar (because everything important’s backed up in the cloud, obviously).Move the mouse to the bottom of the screen to the Mac dock.However, if we look a bit closer at this seemingly simple process, it takes quite a few steps (using my third year research project PDF as an example) The ‘ordinary’ (read: normal) person’s way of opening the file on a Mac would be to use Finder to locate the file and double-click it. ![]() This may sound a tad abstract, so let’s use a concrete example. I don’t mean in the sense of “ensure that I don’t waste time on Facebook”, but more the sense of “I know what small action I want to accomplish at this moment, and I’d like for my computer to obey me as fast as possible”. I feel it’s really important, therefore, for me to attempt to maximise the efficiency of the process. ![]() I’d like to think that most of that time is reasonably productive, i.e.: I’m getting stuff done (as opposed to simply browsing Facebook/Reddit/Youtube etc). I spend a huge amount of time in front of a computer/laptop. Time is our most valuable non-renewable resource. If you spend some time in front of a computer (even if it’s sadly not a mac), you might find the principle vaguely interesting. This post discusses how I use Alfred to increase my efficiency/productivity on my MacBook.
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