| I'd watch this twitch stream. Contemporary editors are like 5-axis CNC mills and I'm still banging the rocks together. My occasional use multiple cursors is very basic. Your strategy wouldn't even occur to me. Ages ago, Suresh Bhavanani (sp?) studied (suboptimum) usage of office and CADD applications. He was hired by the Army Corps of Engineers to help determine why adoption of CADD hadn't resulted in either higher productivity or improved quality. His theory, which I believe, is various people have various "strategies" of varying merit. But for some reason users didn't (couldn't) readily learn better techniques from each other. IIRC, His two proposals were 1) re-organize user interfaces around tasks, instead of a features and 2) update training materials emphasize strategies. IIRC, he compared manual and digital drafting. He identified a bunch of implicit and explicit "strategies" for manual work. eg Using ink and mylar, skilled drafters would work right-to-left, to avoid smudging prior work. Many early adopters carried those manual strategies over to CADD. Suboptimal, right? So then Suresh identified a bunch of digital appropriate strategies, leveraging the new tool. Suresh did the same for spreadsheets. Any way, this is a too long ramble now ending with the point: It'd be nice to see how others organize their work. I'm sure there's a lot of low hanging fruit "strategies". All the day to day tricks that experts use that don't get captured and explained in our training materials. |