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Bram Moolenaar gives very good advices on how to improve the text-editing workflow.

Essentially it is about improving your workflow in small steps:

• Start reflecting what you are doing not as efficient as you would like to, over and over again.
• Then find a way to improve it, take the time to find a solution.
• Make it a habit, then start again reflecting.

I created some habits while working with Rails, which are simple and small

Aliases:

 sc - script/console
 ss - script/server 
 gst - git status

small functions in bash

restart passenger:

function res {
  echo "restarting passenger"
  touch tmp/restart.txt
}

run parallel specs:

function pspec {
  echo "specing"
  rake parallel:spec[2]
}

These are my favorites right now. The important thing is not the functions themselves, but the habits. I use them over and over again. I cannot work without them anymore.