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Yak Shaving

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Yak Shaving.

I do this a lot. I mean, it is necessary, but, I could, at least I think, could shave a little off. hue :}

The last topic I posted was about Text Editing, and yes, it is no coincidence that I am posting about Yak Shaving now. You see, I need to update my workflow, to reduce, or possibly do better by avoiding 'Yak Shave'-ing. At least, if not lessen, be a little more efficient. - focus -

So how? Workspaces?

IIRC, I started using desktop workspaces as part of my 'workflow' several years back with windows + something Desktop Cube it's called, to using spaces on Mac, to i3/xMonad/dwm/insert other window manager here. But these, managing these windows are a little too high in the stack of my thought-abstractions, they're mostly facades, used to control what to be focused on the screen. I'd like to have it a little bit lower, close to the bottom. Say, buffer level, in the text editor.

On my day to day, I heavily use tmux-sessions + vim buffers. Tmuxinator to spawn sessions, and Teamocil to spawn layouts. Recently though, i'm no longer using tmux panes, I have started using :terminal instead, on splits and tabs ofcourse.

MassiveTip: Please stop using c-w + o, use :tab split instead ;)

Hmm, i think we have to pause, idk where this is going now, now that I am spending precious braincells on the topic, i feel i just need a Teamocil equivalent for vim splits. hmmm. A way to manage split layouts, a split-layout-manager. Let me google that... "vim split layout manager", ... yeah, knew it. People are recommending vim sessions. Maybe it is the time. Time to try sessions out.

Going back P^^, I use emacs too, mostly for note taking and calendar-ing (org-mode and agendas FTW!). I have heard of perspective-el. But im deferring the use of that. I'll try tab-bar-mode, tab-line-mode, winner-mode, and desktop.el first. With those + the help of the all powerful projectile, I feel i'll be able to get to a workflow that i will be satisfied with.

End. 끝!

Ref. Yak Shaving

PS: start blogging in org-mode please.

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