The hottest Workflow Substack posts right now

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How I got 27 hours in a week by installing one tool

High Growth Engineer • 1052 implied HN points • 17 Nov 24
🕹 Technology Productivity Tools Software AI Workflow Engineering
  1. Using tools like Raycast can save a lot of time by centralizing different functions on your computer. It allows you to quickly access apps and features, making your workflow smoother.
  2. Having features like an instant AI chat is really useful for quickly finding answers to questions without interrupting your flow. You can get help right when you need it, without the hassle of opening new tabs.
  3. Text expanders are great for saving time on repetitive typing. They let you create shortcuts for common phrases, making it faster to communicate and reducing effort in your daily tasks.

Faster coding isn't enough

Dev Interrupted • 32 implied HN points • 12 Jun 25
🕹 Technology AI Software Development Engineering Workflow
  1. AI is changing software development, but it's mostly helping with coding and testing. Other important parts, like planning and reviewing, still need a lot of human effort.
  2. Relying too much on AI for speed can be a mistake. It's better to focus on improving the entire development process, not just trying to code faster.
  3. To use AI effectively in development, teams should create clear rules, encourage trying new things, and make sure quality and security aren't compromised.
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Proofreading an entire book with GPT-4 for $6.88

Mindful Modeler • 479 implied HN points • 02 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Automation Tools Costs Workflow
  1. Proofreading an entire book with GPT-4 can help automate tasks like improving grammar, language, and cutting clutter in a draft.
  2. Using prompts to guide LLMs like GPT-4 is important for specific and successful outcomes in automated editing.
  3. The economic benefit of using GPT-4 for proofreading can be significant compared to hiring a professional proofreader, offering a balance between capabilities and cost.

AI for Small Business Owners

The Small Business Corner • 39 implied HN points • 16 May 24
🕹 Technology AI Automation Marketing Workflow Content creation
  1. People tend to react to new technology in one of three ways: celebrate it, bash it, or adopt it pragmatically.
  2. AI tools can significantly benefit small business owners by saving time, cutting costs, and enhancing productivity.
  3. Adopting AI tools strategically into business processes can lead to efficiency, cost reduction, and innovation, helping small businesses stay competitive.

FlowMind Is An Automatic Workflow Generator

Cobus Greyling on LLMs, NLU, NLP, chatbots & voicebots • 19 implied HN points • 25 Jun 24
🕹 Technology AI Automation Workflow Data science Programming
  1. FlowMind is a new tool that helps create automatic workflows using advanced AI. It takes user requests and generates code to complete tasks quickly.
  2. The system uses APIs to gather information and provides real-time feedback, allowing users to adjust the workflows as needed. This makes the process more interactive.
  3. FlowMind aims to improve the reliability of AI by reducing errors and making sure there is no direct connection to sensitive data. It focuses on keeping user data safe while handling requests.

Saving Time Using Auto1111's API: Automated Workflow for XYZ Grids

followfox.ai’s Newsletter • 98 implied HN points • 27 May 23
🕹 Technology Automation API Workflow Testing Scripting
  1. An automated workflow using Auto1111's API can save time when generating XYZ comparison grids
  2. The process involves creating a CSV file with parameters for each grid and using a script to feed these parameters to Auto1111 through the API
  3. While this automated workflow can save time, it may not allow for immediate review and adjustments after each grid generation

How Process Impacts Your Culture

Ways of Working • 98 implied HN points • 19 Jul 23
💼 Business Organizational Culture Decision-making Workflow Employee engagement
  1. Our personal relationship with process can impact how we work and interact with others, showing our organizational culture.
  2. Processes are applied in organizations in areas like people processes, team-level processes, company-level processes, and customer processes.
  3. Processes in organizations aim to facilitate work, reduce risk, ensure consistency, but can also hinder creative thinking if taken too far.

Data Materialization is a Convergence Problem

Data People Etc. • 159 implied HN points • 10 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Data Workflow Operations
  1. Data materialization is not just a workflow orchestration problem but also a convergence problem.
  2. In a convergence-based approach to data materialization, a materialization controller could continuously compare the state of the warehouse with the desired state of models to automate the materialization process.
  3. Challenges in implementing a materialization controller include explainability, managing over-eagerness, and dealing with drift in the system.

Introducing... Cubicle!

polymathematics • 39 implied HN points • 22 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Software Productivity Web Tools Workflow Applications
  1. Cubicle is a new web app designed to help people stay productive at work. It uses a Pomodoro technique to balance work and breaks.
  2. The app encourages users to set specific tasks to complete in short bursts, helping to focus on the most important goals.
  3. By using timers and structured tasks, Cubicle aims to make work sessions more efficient and engaging.

How to Make Your Organization Run Like a Well-Oiled Machine

Sunday Letters • 39 implied HN points • 31 Oct 22
💼 Business Management Organization Workflow Productivity Collaboration
  1. Assign roles based on individual strengths to help team members excel. For example, creative people can focus on brainstorming, while organized individuals can handle project management.
  2. Encourage open communication and collaboration by holding regular meetings where everyone can share their ideas. This helps everyone feel valued and can improve overall productivity.
  3. Use the Pareto principle, which says that 80% of results come from 20% of efforts. Identify those key activities and focus on them to boost efficiency in your organization.

A Webhook Love Story

Sarah's Newsletter • 3 HN points • 17 Apr 24
🕹 Technology Automation APIs Workflow Integrations Operations
  1. Webhooks provide a plug-and-play interface for event-driven workflows, making automation in marketing efficient and scalable.
  2. Webhooks are useful when immediate automated responses are needed to events from the outside world, and relying on batch implementations would be inefficient.
  3. Effectively implementing webhooks requires observability through alerts, in-depth logs, centralized deployment, and proper scale to avoid operational challenges.

Sort Feature Overview: Better Data Through Collaboration

Database Engineering by Sort • 15 implied HN points • 01 Mar 24
🕹 Technology Data Quality Collaboration Database Management Workflow Transparency
  1. Data quality is crucial for businesses as it influences customer experience, decision-making, and AI outcomes.
  2. Collaboration is key for improving data quality, as automated tools can only address a portion of data issues.
  3. Sort provides a platform for transparent collaboration on databases, allowing for public and private database sharing, issue tracking, proposing and reviewing database changes.

How things work at Kima Ventures

Venture Prose • 79 implied HN points • 01 Feb 19
💼 Business Venture Capital Investment Workflow Portfolio Management Communication
  1. Kima Ventures tracks dealflow opportunities using in-house tools, not CRM platforms, and follows a weekly workflow for managing new opportunities.
  2. They manage meetings and communication by logging them on Google Calendar and Airtable, aiming to keep to-do lists short and manageable.
  3. The team has efficient processes for decision-making, investing, and portfolio management, utilizing various tools and software for tracking deals and progress.

How to work efficiently, how to efficiently get things done, and how to make the team operate efficiently.

Howard’s Newsletter • 1 HN point • 22 Jun 23
🕹 Technology Productivity Collaboration Tools Efficiency Workflow
  1. Efficiency in work is achieved by breaking down tasks into smaller segments and following a time management rule.
  2. Utilizing tools like Git, Sublime Text, and Org mode can enhance team collaboration and productivity.
  3. Assigning specific tasks, maintaining documentation, and focusing on action helps in achieving project efficiency and FDA compliance.

Must Learn KQL Part 3: Workflow

Rod’s Blog • 0 implied HN points • 31 May 23
🕹 Technology Data Analysis Security Query Language Workflow
  1. Understanding the workflow of a KQL query is crucial for developing your logic and ensuring query results capture the desired information.
  2. Focus on comprehending the query line-by-line rather than becoming a pro at creating KQL queries on day 1. What matters most are the results of the query in enhancing security efforts.
  3. Sharing KQL queries among colleagues and utilizing built-in capabilities in Azure can eliminate the need to create your own queries, emphasizing the importance of understanding the workflow.

Top 5 Kanban Tools to Streamline Your Workflow

Weekend Developer • 0 implied HN points • 21 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Tools Productivity Workflow Software Project management
  1. Using a physical wall with sticky notes can be a simple and effective way to create a Kanban board for task management.
  2. Draw.io is a versatile tool that includes a Kanban template and can help in creating flowcharts and diagrams.
  3. Trello and Jira are among the top Kanban tools, with Trello being simple and suitable for personal projects, while Jira is commonly used in organizations and offers a free version for small teams.

Integrating Farspeak with Zapier

Substack von FARSPEAK • 0 implied HN points • 17 May 24
🕹 Technology Automation Web applications AI Integration Workflow
  1. Integrating Farspeak with Zapier automates AI workflows by connecting platforms for streamlined processes like data updates and notifications.
  2. Zapier is an automation tool that links various web apps, creating workflows called 'Zaps' with triggers and actions.
  3. Setting up Farspeak with Zapier involves creating accounts, installing necessary packages, connecting via Webhooks, and configuring actions to automate tasks like updating Google Sheets.

My Biggest Strategy Recommendation. For Everyone. (That Will Never Happen)

The Entertainment Strategy Guy • 0 implied HN points • 19 Jan 24
💼 Business Productivity Communication Workflow Deep Work
  1. Regularly checking emails and messages can disrupt deep work and productivity.
  2. Companies should consider transitioning to project planning based workflows to enhance productivity and reduce distractions.
  3. Moving away from email and instant messaging systems may lead to more meaningful and focused work, despite potential challenges in implementation.

The Platform: General Implementation Capacity

AI Prospects: Toward Global Goal Convergence • 0 implied HN points • 24 Feb 24
🕹 Technology AI Implementation Workflow Automation Design
  1. AI can accelerate the implementation capacity of design, development, production, deployment, and adaptation stages, improving efficiency and scale of sociotechnical systems.
  2. Dividing the implementation process into stages like design, development, production, deployment, and adaptation can help understand AI's role in each stage and potential for transformative impacts.
  3. Using AI for generative design, automation, interactive systems, and adaptation can enhance different stages of implementation workflow, leading to better outcomes and faster progress.

Sort Product Update – January 2025

Database Engineering by Sort • 0 implied HN points • 06 Jan 25
🕹 Technology Software Data UI Design Product Management Workflow
  1. The new Data Explorer is designed to be user-friendly and looks similar to a spreadsheet, making it easier to manage data. You can filter rows and propose changes quickly with just a few clicks.
  2. A feature called 'Describe Changes' allows users to detail updates to data in simple language, like changing a customer’s address. The improvements also make it easier to view these described changes.
  3. The founders encourage user feedback and suggestions for future updates, highlighting their commitment to improving the platform.

Must Learn KQL Part 5: Turn Search into Workflow

Rod’s Blog • 0 implied HN points • 31 May 23
🕹 Technology Workflow Analytics
  1. Query structure with KQL can help identify and investigate specific data efficiently.
  2. Using the search operator in KQL can be a powerful tool to find relevant information but filtering results is essential to minimize effort.
  3. Learning KQL basics like the where operator and project operator can aid in creating precise queries for analytics rules in tools like Microsoft Sentinel.