AI & General tooling and workflow advice
Hi!
So I have noticed recently that my workflow has become quite inefficient despite being reliable and working.
I use:
- Linux on my main laptop
- Github Copilot in VS Code insiders
Agent mode for analysing my code base and providing minor implementations/advice,
works pretty nicely but sometimes struggles with 502
I got it free through github student pack
- Github Copilot in PHPStorm (My main driver, vscode just does not compare for PHP)
Inline autocomplete
- Agents: (I will be trying t3chat to check, but the lack of chatgpt memory mode keeps me away)
ChatGPT - General Life Stuff (LOVE THE MEMORY <3)
Gemini - Stuff requiring searching (e.g. old docs) incl. coding
Claude - leet code type of stuff. Just something algorithm related mostly rather than research based
My email & calendar stack is lacking
- I have 3 emails - 2x outlook, 1x gmail
It is a pain in the butt to setup new device and log into three email accounts in an app to sync my calendars.
I use linux so I can't use outlook app to handle that so I do not use email on my laptop almost at all.
So setting up reminders, calendar events etc. is also annoying most of the time
I will take any recommendations for improvement. Currently I do not have any subscriptions, but I am open to getting something if it helps me enough.
My current stack works, but there is A LOT of room for improvement
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I am also open to self hosted solutions.
Im hosting some stuff like common proxies, gitlab, for myself so
Mind telling us what parts you feel has become inefficient?
Oh sorry,
Each time I want to use GH Copilot Agent mode I switch to VS Code Insiders - only reason I keep this app around; As I do not use it for coding (And then I still double check the changes in phpstorm as vscode does not provide perfect codelense for php so I cant be sure if the code it produced is correct)
Conversing with AIs is constant struggle choosing correct model - as mentioned, I will be trying T3Chat but the lack of memory looks discouraging
Setting up calendar & emails w. multiple accounts is hellish and causes issues due to lack of one good unified mailing client
Changing between different Teams accounts seems like I am entering a maze each time (I looked into browser profiles but It doesn't play too well on linux as oauth calls for some reason get redirected to default profile)
Being on Linux there is a constant struggle - Google Sheets vs Office Online vs Libre Office; handling those files is pain
Reducing context switching and increasing ease of use would be amazing and I do not have the biggest idea where I could start
It feels like there is potential for a great speed up
I haven't done agents and never tried gpt memory. So, sorry there
But t3chat will help you easily switch models. Do try it, but you might want to wait for the upcoming projects update to separate your use cases.
For email client i've heard great things about superhuman. Dunno about calendars though. Maybe notion calendar?
Sorry you had to use teams
Sorry you still have to deal with spreadsheets
I use obsidian and linear to keep track of what i'm doing
Lastly, you're on linux but are you utilizing the terminal? You could look into zoxide, fzf, ripgrep, lazygit, etc for better terminal experience