Swift To-Do List Blog

How to get organized, how to be productive, Swift To-Do List tips and tricks

Declaring war on stupid typing with FastPaste 3

We’ve released brand new major version 3 of our clipboard utility, FastPaste. FastPaste was the first utility that we’ve ever released, and this new major version is a complete rewrite.

Declaring war on stupid typing

In many jobs, you have to type something again and again, whether each day or multiple times a week. And not just one thing, but many different things. Again and again.

In our book, that’s stupid. It’s soulless work. Where’s the juice, the passion, the excitement in that?!

Human beings shouldn’t do stupid repetitive things. That’s what we have technology for.

FastPaste can do the stupid typing for you, so you can have more time for learning, creativity, real contribution, your family, friends, hobbies, fun and relaxation.

Did you know that 10 minutes saved daily is 60 hours in a year? That’s equivalent of one and half of work-week! In that time, you could learn a new language, launch a new project, go on several wonderful trips, get fit – or anything else that you love doing.

And that’s just in 1 year. If you can save 60 hours each year, the extra life you will get stacks up rapidly.

FastPaste is here to give you YOUR time back

How it works?

Example: Pressing Ctrl+1 can insert my name (“Jiri Novotny”) into any application.

FastPaste allows you to insert text with hotkeys. There are 30 clips (fields). Each has a customizable hotkey. The first clip has default hotkey Control+1, the second Control+2, and so on.

When you press the hotkey, FastPaste will automatically insert the text in that particular clip (field).

FastPaste can paste plain text, rich text (RTF), images.

Insert text with hotkeys with FastPaste

Keyboard scripts

You can also create keyboard scripts, to send key sequences and/or combinations.

You can use the scripts to do many cool things, like filling various forms with just a single hotkey.

Here is an example of a FastPaste script:

John
{TAB}
hawai777
{CONTROL}{ENTER}

The script above will type “John”, then send the Tab key, then type “hawai777″, and then send Control + Enter combination.

What’s new in FastPaste 3

Because the new version is a complete rewrite, there is nothing left unimproved.

The new features include:

  • Keyboard scripts that you can use to fill forms, send key sequences and key combinations and much more. It can emulate not just typing, but a press of any key or key combination.
  • Encryption to protect your clips and data from unauthorized access
  • Portable – can be deployed to USB thumb-drive
  • New beautiful look and feel
  • Resizable window
  • Docking support, so you can dock FastPaste into sidebar
  • Display clips in 1 column, 2 columns, or 3 columns
  • 10 quick projects with global hotkeys; access over 300 clips with keyboard
  • Unicode support
  • Support for various screen DPIs
  • Better handling of global hotkeys, only hotkeys for used clips are registered
  • Smart detection of conflicting hotkeys
  • Nicer HTML export of hotkeys overview
  • Ability to paste images with transparency
  • Preview images directly in the main Fast Paste window
  • Ability to contact us directly from the program (using menu Help – Contact)

Download fully functional 30-day trial of FastPaste

If you would like to give FastPaste a go, you can download a fully functional 30-day trial of FastPaste. The only limitation in the trial is that it can’t deployed to USB thumb-drive.

Related Posts:

stdl

Swift To-Do List 11

The ultimate to-do list and notes software for Windows.

Be Successful First Thing in the Morning

Morning SuccessAgain and again, it is proving to me that if I begin my day by immediately doing the most important goal for that day, the day will be a tremendous success.

How about your pet project? Do you think that you will ever finish it, if you don’t put in effort consistently?

Just wake up, and start working on the most important goal. Just for 5 minutes. It will be more – but the 5 minute target removes all excuses.

Success creates more success, and achievement creates more achievement. It feels SO GOOD to complete something RIGHT AWAY in the morning, before some lazy late-sleepers are even waking up. Talk about a head start!

There is nothing like early morning success. It truly sets the tone for the day.

Are you thinking that it won’t work for you? Perhaps it won’t. But I urge you to try it for yourself, because I’m sure it will work. Things in motion tend to stay in motion. Once you accomplish something – you will want to accomplish more. In fact, you will be excited! You will wonder “What else can I achieve today? How great I could make this day?” If you begin your day with a perfect track-record, you will go to extreme lengths to keep it that way.

This might seem like such a small thing – but once you experience it, I promise you will understand how huge impact this can have for you.

And remember – it works the other way around too! If you begin your day by goofing around and surfing the web, chances are, you won’t accomplish much that day. Avoid wasting the start of perfectly great days like a plague. Start of your day can literally make or break it. And your life is nothing more than a collection of days!

Humor me and try this. After all, what could you lose? Do you want more excitement, enthusiasm and sense of accomplishment in your life? Since you are reading this post, I bet your answer is resounding YES!

So, here is what I suggest you to do immediately:

Write your most important goal for tomorrow on a piece of paper and post it somewhere where you will see it after you wake up tomorrow. It can be your alarm clock, computer screen, or mirror in the bathroom. And if you want to get the maximum out of this, go to bed a bit sooner than usual – and wake up a bit sooner than usual, too! After you wake up, you will see the reminder. Then just do it!

Arguably, I believe that mornings are better than evenings for working on your most important personal goals. Sure, everyone is asleep at night so there is silence and so and so, but mornings have their advantages too. The main advantage is that in the morning you are fresh, and your mental desktop is completely free. It’s like a freshly rebooted Windows computer ;-) If you live a healthy life and exercise, you should be at your peak state in the morning. So why not fully harness that edge, before 1000 little busy-spams of the regular day attack your brain? And hey, you can always do both – mornings and evenings.

The first hour of your day is the navigator of the day – so make sure you navigate your day right.

(And no, after posting the paper reminder for tomorrow’s goal, there is no special reason to wait until tomorrow. Once you prepare the paper, then do something – anything – towards your goal – right now!)

- By , the obsessed author of task management software for Windows, Swift To-Do List. Jiri’s life quest is to become a productivity and achievement world-class expert to empower others, and his current main goal is to create the best task and notes management software for Windows.

PS: Have trouble with focusing? Then read Are You a Zen Coder or Distraction-Junkie?, also by yours truly.

Related Posts:

stdl

Swift To-Do List 11

The ultimate to-do list and notes software for Windows.