I have a similar sort of distractability to you, I think; while I haven't particularly succeeded in spending that time doing something directly productive, I've managed to divert most of it into reading things that are at least less mindless and provide some amount of self-improvement, so every time I'm wasting time I'm doing so in a way I approve of.
How? RSS feeds. Get an easily-accessible RSS feed reader (I use a Chrome extension that's only ever a key-press away) and throw good content into it. Prune anything that you don't want to be reading. After a while, you'll have an enormous stream of high-quality content ready for consumption, all the time. And if you can make that your default procrastination tool, you can be wasting time reading blogs about neuroscience and /r/slatestarcodex and mathematical webcomics and the AI Safety newsletter and Givewell conversation notes and new papers from the arXiv and so on. It's not actually productive, but it's a hell of a lot better than /r/pics.
My first Chromebook was a HP Chromebook 11 G1 that I bought back in June 2014. It was more out of curiosity than a real need. I chose it because it was an ARM-based fan-less small netbook with a micro-USB port to charge it.
I really liked it, the concept, but the building quality was very poor and I prefer desktop computer, so I decided to buy a HP Chromebox 6 months later, which I still use daily. I think I'll replace it soon with an Android-enabled one.
Now I also own a Samsung Chromebook Plus, for Android apps.
For me the two main drawbacks are the impossibility to print over USB, and the concern over privacy.
Main advantages: sync, backups, updates, maintenance-free system.
Be careful not to lock yourself into an economic model. I used to possess a Macbook and an iPhone in the late 2000s/early 2010s, I bought DRM protected contents on iTunes, a lot of iOS apps, now I regret it a lot as I can't use them anymore. My main advice would be to encourage you to use different service and content providers, and free (as in freedom) ones if they exist.
ChromeOS was at that time a very simple OS, and it still is, there are not that much tips and tricks one can share that really changes the user experience. Maybe you ask for a list of services we use? Here is mine:
That covers almost 80% of my usage.
Den här feeden borde fungera: https://feeder.co/discover/b6adca80f3/vaccinationsbokning-regionvastmanland-se var tvungen att ändra lite i systemet för att det ska lira. Den känner av rubrikerna där, om FULLBOKAT finns med eller ej. Man borde då också få en notis när det väl blir fullbokat!
Den andra länken https://feeder.co/aktivera/trial-for-sweddit omdirigerar till https://feeder.co/reader för mig. Jag skapade ett konto en annan väg än den första länken då sajten gav felmeddelande när jag försökte registrera mig på det viset.
Sagt och gjort! Klicka på denna länk för 2 månader Pro (tänker mig att man borde fått sitt vaccin tills dess....): https://feeder.co/aktivera/trial-for-sweddit
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The first I heard of it being an Islam thing, was on NBC Nightly News yesterday.
If you want to walk away from this kind of censorship, walk away from Reddit. Install Feeder in your browser, pick your trusted sources, and get reacquainted with RSS. There's a lot you're missing if you're just relying on other people to post things in accordance to their agenda.
We use Paypal Micropayments through Braintree. It works fine. To be honest Paypal is a bit of a black hole. I remember applying for micropayments, but not sure what happened. Turns out we got accepted. No mail or anything. Our effective rate for Braintree payments is around 15%. I would really recommend charging more. It's easy to downplay what your product is worth when thinking about a price.
At feeder.co it's part of our Pro plans to either send instant e-mail notifications or daily/weekly/monthly summaries. I can hook you up with a free trial if you're interested in giving it a go.
[feeder.co](feeder.co) has a public dashboard feature. It’s what we used to create our corona dashboard it seems to tick all the boxes for your use case. However the price tag is $115/month (it’s intended for internal enterprise sharing). I’d be happy to talk about it if you’re interested?
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Hi !
I tried the free version of Feeder.co and I really liked it especially the feed feature with up to 10 columns -> very nice.
But please.... if you could... don't put any limit on the feed number for the pro version.
I use feeder.co and its Chrome plugin. There's a little plus symbol when an RSS feed exists on the page, you add it, and then you get notified when any of your stuff updates, with a little number of posts on the plugin's icon. Super simple, very user friendly.
RSS feeds! (Perhaps not as easily for email newsletters, but many of them have options for RSS.) You can combine all of your favorite blogs, webcomics, subreddits, youtube channels, etc into one aggregated feed.
There are several options for RSS readers; I use feeder for its ease of use as a Chrome extension.
I also get Feeder.co news feed notifications throughout the day. And, as you noted, they aren't organized.
You could create a set of targeted Google News searches where each query returns specific results, such as "Finance" or "Mars" or "Productivity."
Sample news results for "productivity"
You can save stories, filter by time period (down to 1 hour) and click a headline to find related news. Additionally, you can refine a saved search such as this one ..
"Productivity Tools" It's a refined version of the "Productivity" news search. I added "Tools" to "Productivity" to show news about "Productivity Tools." And I set the search period to the past 24 hours.
So you're free to use Googles UI to save headlines or you could save them as browser bookmarks.
All RSS readers can access Reddit subreddits as feeds, you just gotta know how to do it. I do this with News Explorer as well. Here is a great article to show you how to bring Reddit into your RSS reader of choice. https://feeder.co/knowledge-base/rss-feed-creation/reddit-rss/
You can turn any YouTube channel into an RSS feed. There are plenty of guides, like this one. It's free for the same reasons the rest of YouTube is free. Soundclound has a limit on how much you can host. To host more you have to pay and thats how they make money. Anchor.fm is free because it offers a platform to find advertisers for its podcasts and a platform for listener support. It takes a cut from both. It's also owned by Spotify which makes more money if more people have more reasons to use their service, including podcasts.
Personally, I use Anchor and think it's great. They submit your feed to about a dozen platforms for you, but only if you tell them too. The catch is that to claim them on those platforms, you have to change a setting so they use your email in the RSS and if you have them send to iTunes, you have to reach out to iTunes customer service and have them give you access to your metrics.
Hmm thank you all for the ideas. Very helpful - I played with a bunch of these, blogtrottr was a very close match to what I need, but only it's premium version would handle the instant update part - leaving me to compare it with Feeder.co which ultimately is exactly what I need - a free alternative doesn't seem clearly available, but this is fine - for $60/yr it's cloud based and easy to modify from anywhere. I may play with the IFTTT idea a bit and see what I can accomplish.