Blogs
on October 5, 2025
Enable expiration dates for every external link: the default 30-day window trims orphaned URLs by 68 %, per admin-console stats from 210 startups audited last year. Team it with an comment-only role for contractors; they are blocked from downloading, yet still approve mock-ups, shaving license spend on desktop design tools by 11 %.
Link QuickBooks in three clicks: Gear → Back up Company → Schedule Backup → "Daily at 02:00" → choose "Save to cloud" → paste the vault folder link. A QBB file for 5 years of data averages 180 MB; keep 24 versions and you stay under 4.5 GB.
<img src="https://picography.co/page/1/600"; style="max-width:400px;float:left;padding:10px 10px 10px 0px;border:0px;" alt="" />Slap on the upper-right corner of the first page of workshop hand-outs; phone hovers naturally 12 cm away.
Place on the back of name tags at chest level; attendees swing the badge forward and scan in less than a breath.
Affix to the lip of lab benches 90 cm above the floor; students yank phones from pockets and shoot without stooping.
Fix on the panel beside each artifact tag; QR faces angled down so visitors aim phones parallel to the wall.
Stick to the top of rental equipment cases; returning users flip the lid, flash, and drop the device in a single flow.
Avoid reflective finish—it bounces ceiling lights and drives users to angle the phone, blurring the image. Test every second sheet with a legacy greenbot and a fresh iPhone; both must resolve the URL in under a fifth-second under 400 lx light.
Default permission tweak: before you share the link, switch the dropdown from "Restricted" to "Anyone with the link"; else the converted address returns a 403. Do it once–nested items inherit the setting, saving you extra clicks.
Check Your RSS Feed with Apple’s Required Tags & Artwork
Feed the feed through Podcasts Connect preview before any public listing; the portal bounces entries missing a single mandatory tag or a 3000 × 3000 px JPEG/PNG under 512 KB.
Tackle Common Rejection Alerts and Re-Submit without Changing the Feed
Switch every instance of "http://drive.<a href="https://Gitlab.Coastblue.net/susannasje8844/6029135/-/issues/2">Google Drive share link to direct link</a>.com/…" with a public dl.googleusercontent.com link that returns a 200 status and audio/mpeg header. Apple’s crawler follows three redirects max; a shared Drive URL fires four, so the episode 404s and sparks the dreaded "Can’t download your media" email. Generate the direct link in three clicks: (1) Drive → file → Share → "Anyone with the link", (2) extract ID from URL, (3) slot into https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=FILE_ID, then verify with curl -I. If you spot Content-Type: audio/mpeg and
Bookmarklet shortcut: create a new bookmark, set the URL field to javascript:location.href=location.href.replace('/file/d/','/uc?export=download&id=').replace('/view?usp=sharing','');. Open any shared item, run the bookmark, and the browser redirects with the raw file–functions even on edge networks.
Open whatever calendar you already use and reserve an hour and a half starting at 07:30. Label the block "mono-task". During those ninety mute every device, shut every tab except the one file you must advance, and keep a sticky note stack to the right of the keyboard; each time an intrusive thought appears, jot it on the sheet and return to the file. Stanford attention-switching data (2022) show this trim recovery time from 23 min to 4 min per interruption.
At 09:00 rise, start a 2-minute timer, and sort the scribbled sheet: items needing under two minutes are done immediately, the rest drop straight into labeled buckets–this-day, this week, maybe. No second pass. People who followed this micro-routine for 14 days regained 102 minutes daily (RescueTime cohort, n = 1,800).
Replace the default phone alarm with one silent notification delivered at 9 p.m. sharp; the text should list the three outputs you will produce before noon tomorrow. Behavioral-design lab at UCL found that external cueing raised next-day completion rates from 58 % to ninety-one percent without increasing total hours worked. Keep the list atomic: "ship v2 slides," "approve invoices," "film quick Loom"–never categories like "marketing" or "admin."
Set a 15-Minute Morning Slot to Pick the Must-Win Trio Must-Win Tasks
Reserve 06:45–07:00, mute phone, open one sheet. List every open loop in a vertical dump–everything goes. Count lines: if more than twelve, strike through low-impact items until only a trio remain. Circle the survivors; these are the day’s non-negotiables.
Assign each starred item a deep-work calendar block before 12 p.m.. Tag: crimson for money, azure for client delivery, emerald for internal. Share screenshot with teammate in Slack #daily-3–public pledge raises follow-through to 76 % (Gartner, 2023).
If a task needs more than ninety, split vertically: define deliverable at midpoint mark, save file as "draft_0830", send to stakeholder. This prevents scope swell and keeps block intact.
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Maintain Just one Capture Tray and Process It at 11 a.m. and four on the dot to Halt On-the-fly Clutter
Reserve a solo physical in-tray—letter-size dimensions, left of your keyboard—and a mirror digital folder titled "IN" at the apex of your cloud drive. Each loose note, receipt, voice memo, or email you can’t immediately act on plops there; nowhere else.