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title: NotCon Life Hacks
date: "2005-08-29T12:00:00Z"
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wp_id: 568
description: I summarized Danny O'Brien's NotCon talk on life hacks, focusing on how geeks use command-line shells, todo.txt, and private RSS feeds to automate their lives and maintain secret productivity scripts.
keywords: [notcon, life hacks, danny o'brien, todo.txt, shell scripts, rss]
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Notes from [Danny O'Brien's NotCon Recap of Life Hacks](http://www.craphound.com/lifehacks2.txt). Summary: People use shells. People use todo.txt. We'll have private blogs. We'll have private RSS feeds. Geeks use secret scripts.