super productivity is the to-do app that earned the second device
The single best argument for Super Productivity, a free open-source task and time tracker maintained on GitHub, is not any feature on its settings page. It is the fact that the data…
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LibreOffice 26.8 quietly became the polished tool I kept hoping for
Most release notes blur together after a while. A feature here, a bug fix there, a friendly note to remind everyone the project still exists. LibreOffice 26.8 reads differently, and not because…
When a workbook quietly grows into a database nobody planned for
A friend of mine runs ops at a mid-sized retailer. Last quarter her team spent ten days reconciling a single monthly report because two tabs that were supposed to hold the same…
Why Windows says a file is in use when nothing is open
You know you closed the file. You saved, you hit the X, you watched the app go away. Then you try to rename or move that file and Windows tells you something…
Fixing Windows Cross Device Service CPU usage on Windows 11
A laptop I set up for a relative started spinning its fan the moment the screen unlocked. Task Manager showed a process called Microsoft Cross Device Service sitting at 30 to 40…
A quieter Windows 11 Start menu in fifteen minutes of clicking
I open the Start menu roughly forty times a day. Click, three letters, Enter, done. That loop took about a second on Windows 10. On Windows 11 it stretched toward two and…
The hidden ChatGPT feature that builds apps from plain English
Open ChatGPT, click the Sites button in the sidebar, and you get a blank canvas with one text box. No template gallery. No theme picker. No drag-and-drop. You type a paragraph describing…
Claude Code hides its new output style from anyone below build 2.1.237
The new Concise output style in Claude Code has a version gate most reviews skip. Below build 2.1.237, the option does not exist. The menu will show three entries, not four, and…
The one Claude Code setting I always forget is already on my machine
If you run Claude Code from a terminal, version 2.1.237 quietly added a new output style called Concise. Flipping the toggle is a four-second job. Figuring out why it does not show…
Windows admin without the mouse: a working cmdlet shortlist
Every Windows box I have ever inherited came with the same unspoken assumption: the way to stop a stuck service is to open a control panel, find the row, and click a…