 This video is going to be in my workflow when I actually have to accomplish something on my computer Because believe it or not, I do have to get stuff done So those of you who've seen my videos before know This is parabola, which is basically arch and I run i3 or specifically i3 gaps So you'll notice the gaps if I have a couple windows So first off I use a tiling window manager because I I cannot understand why you would ever use anything Else if you like that kind of stuff, that's fine. But like all the time when I was a kid I always wanted my windows to tile. I didn't even know what tiling was But having a tiling windows manager just makes so much sense to me So this is what I use actually for everything, but it's really nice when I'm actually getting stuff done So let me show you how I do it. This is ranger the file manager I have a bunch of shortcuts to all my key folders I'm gonna go to the folder where I keep my qualifying paper It's just two key presses away So I actually started rewriting my qualifying paper earlier this week from the beginning I only have about five pages written right now But let me open up the source file and Vim. This of course is LaTeX Now I have the Vim LaTeX live preview or is it Vim live? I was getting confused, but as you can see on the right So this automatically updates when I make changes to the source file And this is basically where I do the actual writing of the document and all that stuff So if you've seen my other videos on Vim I have all like all the syntax that you have to write for LaTeX or really any other language I just sort of keep them stored in different keyboard shortcuts So I don't actually so for example if you see all this stuff here Looks like a whole bunch of you know crap to write I didn't write any of this all of this was just keyboard shortcuts I just type the keyboard shortcuts and they do exactly what I want So I mean I can basically get to the point where I forget how to even write LaTeX because it's all automated But anyway, it's updated automatically over here. I'm very convenient Other general notes so I can easily shift the gaps The you know my i3 gaps if I press control shift or excuse me Super shift D gets rid of all the gaps if I need some more room Or I can just increase or decrease them with other keyboard shortcuts You know so I can sort of get the feel I want I do like having gaps pretty much at all times Unless I'm like on my laptop screen only so right now. Let me do my Neofetch I am on a ThinkPad X200 but I'm hooked up to a screen so I have a much bigger screen than usual and when I'm at home I actually usually have my ThinkPad in a dock and All on that I'll have like I might have like a music player and then on the screen. I'll be doing actual work Or something like that I mean I might have some other kind of decoration on the the actual computer screen and you know But I do all my actual work on the screen So anyway, that's usually how my screen one looks I'll have other tools open on other windows. So for example one of the tools I'm using is What folder is it in the phenology folder? So one of the things I've been using for my qualifying papers this tool called OT help So I might as well explain it just because why not so my qualifying paper is basically on Word order differences in languages like you know where you put your subject subjects objects of verbs and I'm Arguing effectively that differences and where languages put subjects and objects is a function of their different prosodic constraints So I'm using OT help. This is a tool. It stands for optimality theory help. It's a tool for doing optimality theory, which is a tool Basically for doing sort of constraint based neural net like analysis of traditionally phenology, but of course I'm using it more for syntax I can actually think well, I'm Why are you even looking for? Oh, yeah So anyway, how this program works Let me go ahead and pull it up over here, too I have a CSV file and this CSV file lists out different word orders and it lists out different prosodic constraints and then for each pair it tells you for example SVO violates the contour constraint contour is like you don't want to have a subject and an object in the same phonological phrase And they're both in the same brackets here So basically I I make a little tablet or tablet tableau. It's not really a tableau It's really just the CSV file here And I feed it as a program and what the program does is sort of Decides of the constraints you feed it. What kind of languages are possible? And it gives you this nice little interface where you can compare Okay, is it possible to have the language with transitive sentences like this and in transitive sentences like that if it's no it turns red but it's a very helpful tool that I've been using and I've I sort of had a breakthrough last week and I'm getting answers that I really want so that's been pretty helpful That's why I started rewriting this thing because I Sort of have a new analysis But anyway relevant to my workflow, I will for now I do have this open on usually a workspace I'll have another one for sort of references So if you've seen my other videos on LaTeX I keep one file where I have all of my all the things I've ever cited in LaTeX And this is what all of my LaTeX documents refer to when they're looking for citations So I don't really have to worry about you know keeping different files for it. So The first part of this file is out actually alphabetical, you know, these are all entries for different References or whatever and it's the syntax that Bib LaTeX will call The first part is alphabetical. That's because the alphabetical ones I used in my What is it my thesis But afterwards I just started adding stuff in whatever order I read it in which is actually nice I thought about doing the whole thing alphabetical just you know for autism's sake but it's actually better like this because If I forget, you know, let's say I'm looking for something and I forget who wrote it or Even what it was called if I look in you know, if I remember when I read it I can sort of figure it out Where it is and find it here. I also will sometimes keep like quotes If there is some particularly important quote in it, I would just sort of mark it as You know some other non so something else that Bib LaTeX won't read So that's another thing and of course, you'll notice that all of them are named By you know the last name of the first author and the year it was written in the last two digits of the year And those are the tags. I have to remember when I'm actually writing my document That's what I call them as and of course LaTeX, you know, puts them in the references and everything all automatically So that's usually how I call my references But also recently I now have an articles folder and I don't have all the articles on the left in here But in here I keep as I download them I'll keep all articles in this folder and of course, they're sorted by you know last name and a year as well Which is very obviously last two digits. So Anyway, so this is another thing that's pretty convenient And so I do this for a couple reasons one, you'll notice I don't have internet here And that's just because I don't have internet at my actual house. That's the life I chose for myself I haven't had internet here for two years Which actually helps me in a lot of ways but you know if I So I just download all the articles and I keep them here And it's also just much more efficient to have them on your computer because otherwise I'd have to go on the My university's library whose website and you know You know search for and put in my password and search for these articles that are behind paywalls or whatever So it's much better just having them there. So I usually have a window open for that kind of stuff as well So anyway, it's a more like aesthetic stuff if I want to go super simple You know if I don't need it if I needed just write pros I'll usually not have The preview open and I'll have this thing full screen and I also use Goyo sometimes which is a I forget who wrote it, but it's a plug-in for them. I have a map to F10 So if I press that Goyo is supposed to be Sort of gives you a more intuitive more distraction free writing environment. So that's what this is about And I'll write like the pros in this environment where I don't necessarily have to look at a preview or you know Anything else I can just sort of write it from memory So that's where I get all my hardcore work done and again I might do these in like the TTY without a graphical environment if I really want to so I also do Depending on what I'm doing. I'll do some work in splits. So I might have you know split open You know if I need to modify, you know move from Move something from one paragraph to another. It's very efficient to just have splits So I do that as well But in general I'm general. I guess this is pretty much it This I'm not gonna go too much into what I'm actually doing right now But this gives you should give you an idea of the kind of setup I'm using So yeah, I guess thanks for watching if you have any questions about the setup or just in general feel free to ask So thanks for watching. See you next