 usually scoff really loudly when a youtuber uploads my workflow videos I I don't particularly care how anybody else does their workflow it doesn't really help me whatsoever but I understand why youtubers do this because they're easy to do they're really easy videos and well and frankly I needed an easy video to make today so today I'm going to be taking you through a little bit of my workflow so I will just say this for those of you who don't know me which I mean really nobody knows me I'm a writer by trade so I write for a historical magazine that's what I do to actually earn money so that's what I usually spend most of my day doing I don't actually spend most of my day writing video right writing EWM you know that's just what I do with my off time so most of my workflow is focused on actually doing real work not just producing Linux content so let's just go ahead and jump in so the first thing we're going to talk about is actually recording videos so when I record a video I do so with OBS which I can't actually show you because it's on the wrong monitor but I do record videos using OBS but I also record videos or record the audio for videos using Audacity so Audacity is probably the app that I open most for whatever reason so if I open up Rofi Rofi is usually sorted by the apps that you open most you can see that my top three apps are Audacity OBS and LibreOffice and GIMP so those are really my top three lines now really that's not the true story of it because really the app that I use the most is Firefox now this is soon to be changing because as the video you saw last time says Firefox has been breaking for me quite often lately so my time with Firefox is quickly coming to a close but I spend most of my time probably in Firefox I use Google Docs and I use you know Gmail and all that kind of stuff all that happens right here in Firefox unfortunately I can't get away from the Google services because that's just the way work works sometimes so all that stuff kind of just happens here in Firefox so this is probably my number one app where I spend most of my time when I'm not recording a video and I'm not messing around on the internet or doing work on the internet through Firefox I'm using LibreOffice so for the most part when I say LibreOffice what I mean is LibreOffice writer I don't do any of the other things I don't create spreadsheets I don't care about that if I need to create a spreadsheet or something that I would do it in Google Sheets but that's so rare it doesn't even need to be talked about when I do writing and stuff like that I prefer to use a native application so I write all my stuff here and then if I have to for work or whatever I will transfer to Google Docs afterwards but for the most part this is what I see the vast majority of my day when I'm not in a web browser and as you can tell it's LibreOffice there's not much that I've done here other than I think I've changed the standard toolbar to make the things a little bit smaller I actually don't even know I know there's like a tab version I don't really particularly care for that I don't care for these icons either I haven't spent much time actually customizing it as much as you think I probably would customize LibreOffice just a little bit at least the icons or whatever I haven't I just want to get work done when I'm here so I don't really particularly care about how it looks which is odd for me because I said I want everything else to be pretty but for the reason I haven't spent time doing this when I'm not in the browser or LibreOffice I'm in them now I do quite a bit of work in them but not the kind of work that you'd expect most of this time I spend in them I'm you customize the configuration files and stuff like that so as you can see my top you know files here are you know sx-hkd and my zsh-n file and stuff like that now I have recently started using a ton of stuff for VimWiki and I've been transferring stuff from Zim and over to into VimWiki so this is kind of skewed but if you looked at this outside of this week that I've been using VimWiki most of this stuff would be like the DWM configuration file Xmonads configuration file that stuff this is where I do a lot of the work for the channel because I also keep notes and stuff for these videos in VimWiki as well so those are the four places that I spend most of my time now other than that that a few of the tools that I use I use Rofi so Rofi is my default menu system I guess would say I know a lot of people prefer D menu I like to have my menu in the middle of the screen now I know you can do that with D menu but it's default with Rofi and I didn't have to change it so it was it's just kind of the thing that I chose and plus there's quite a bit more customizing than you can do with Rofi out of the box in order to get D menu to do stuff you have to patch it and at the point where I was choosing between menu systems I wasn't into the whole patching thing I probably could get into it now because I'm much more of a DWM guy now and I understand patching more but I'm kind of attached to Rofi the other big thing about my workflow is that I use scratch pads extensively and if you don't know what a scratch pad is basically scratch pad is a hidden like window or application or whatever that exists on a workspace that it exists but you can't see it so in in these applications can come and go by means of a key binding so for example I have mod y to just a regular terminal same thing with mod n so I have two different terminals and I can run applications in those and I also have mod I for NCM PC PPP or whatever the hell it's called music player and I have mod O to pulse mixer because pulse audio sucks and every once in a while I have to go through it and change what microphone the damn thing is listening from I had to do it again this time and I don't know why because nothing has changed in my computer but OBS also wasn't remembering things it's really weird you really don't need to hear my rant but anyways mod O does that and then I have mod M for my mail now I didn't always have this is actually fairly new thing for the longest time I would have neo month on like a workspace or a tag by itself but I've chosen to put it in a scratch pad for now to see how I like it whether or not I do like it I don't know but yeah I've been using neo month on a scratch pad for the last couple days we'll see if how that goes now for those of you have been watching the channel for a little while you'll know that I'm a big workspace guy so in DWM you don't have workspaces you have tags but I treat them like workspaces I know with the tag system you can go through and do a whole bunch of fancy things I don't really use that functionality I just use them as workspaces and I have to my two monitors set up and right now I'm using total of 10 workspaces I have the most fluid ones are on workspace one so it on our monitor when I should say workspace one is always a web browser workspace to is always LibreOffice and three fourth and five are things that kind of float around every once in a while there's a terminal on there there's another browser whatever on six on both monitors is actually my recording stuff six is always audacity six on the other monitors always OBS on the other monitor number one it's always my to-do list and a couple instances of them wiki it used to be Zim and then a I always had the file manager and on nine I have telegram and discord so yeah that's that's really my workflow it's nothing special like at all I pretty much I think this was mostly a pointless video but and like I said at the beginning this is why youtubers do these videos because it's really really easy to go through and take you say here's some of the apps that I use and how I use them like okay I'm I don't know why anybody would really be particularly interested in the way I use my computer but I made the video I'm gonna post it whatever so make sure you like 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