上周五,当我们把员工每周的升级工作汇总到一起时,我们的编辑们开始接受IFTTT,尝试芭蕾,最后把东西从我们的地板上清理下来,放到书架上。
本周,我们将收听环境噪音、简化节日礼物、解决失眠等。
你这周做了什么升级?请在评论中告诉我们。
I’ve been listening to Rainy Mood while I work. The sound of rain and thunder is really calming, especially here in Southern California where we don’t hear it too often. It helps me with flow. The app has several different ambient noise opti*** (like “chatter” and “shoreline”), but I just go with the standard rain sounds in a browser.
michelle woo, parenting editor
In a conversation with my coworker, Nick, I realized everything I want for the holidays is stored in a single location: my Amazon wish list. Turns out, you can make that list easily accessible to anyone remotely interested in getting you something by modifying your Amazon account settings. So I took some time, filled out my Amazon profile (complete with image to ensure potential gift-givers had the right Patrick Austin), and made my wish list public. Want to search for a friend’s account? Hit up your own Amazon wish list page, select the Your Friends tab, and enter their name or email address.
patrick austin, staff writer
I started listening to podcasts in Spotify instead of iTunes. This way, if I begin listening to a podcast on my phone, I can ask Alexa to resume it, and vice versa. This upgrades my life because I have an Echo Dot in the kitchen for the sole purpose of listening to music while I cook or do dishes. I never wash dishes long enough to finish a podcast, so now I can listen to podcasts that way, too.
beth skwarecki, health editor
As a lifetime bad sleeper, it’s rare that I come across a new or effective hack, but I recently listened to an episode of Fresh Air with sleep scientist Matthew Walker, who offered a counterintuitive, but totally effective hack for insomnia: get up. According to Walker, tossing and turning in bed teaches your brain to associate that space with being awake, which isn’t good for establishing a solid sleep habit. Now when I can’t sleep, I move to the living room. More often than not, I either end up snoozing on the couch, get tired again and return to bed, or get some work or reading done—which is all a lot better than staring wide-eyed at my ceiling and wondering what time it is.
caitlin schneider, social editor
This isn’t a recent upgrade, but I’m still obsessed with Trader Joe’s Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate. I brew my own cold brew coffee sometime, but the simplicity of pouring a little of this magic elixir into a glass then adding some water for dilution makes having a morning coffee easy and relatively cheap. It tastes great and lasts a good while too! I love it.
patrick allan, staff writer
As happens every holiday season, I may or may not be doing more shopping for myself than I am for other people. Oh well. I’ve been slowly but surely furnishing the apartment I moved into in July, and this week I made a big ticket purchase I’ve been putting off for a while: a sleeper sofa. I got this heavily discounted model from Wayfair, and am eagerly awaiting its arrival. I’m excited to have my living room look more pulled together, and also, to have a place for out of town friends to sleep when they come visit.
virginia k. **ith, managing editor
I got this, the “Uncalendar,” which is my favorite organizer on this earth. It has t*** of boxes and columns for making lists, and lists are what keep me sane. I have tried using other calendars/planners, and they just don’t have enough boxes and columns for lists.
claire lower, food & beverage editor
...如果你选择放弃销售,在节日期间呆在家里,你可以享受亚马逊Alexa带来的更轻松的体验。您可以通过任何Amazon Echo设备访问Amazon Alexa。 ...
...你想保证第一次就能得到你真正想要的东西,你应该利用亚马逊的两个最好的隐藏功能:愿望列表和想法列表。 ...
愿望清单是亚马逊最好的功能之一,但没有足够的人使用。与其将感兴趣的物品添加到你的购物车中并堵塞它,不如将它们放入心愿单中,这样你就可以跟踪你以后想买的东西。他们甚至可以通过推迟不确定的购买来帮你省钱。...
... 当你在一个扩展支持的网站上(包括沃尔玛、REI、亚马逊、百思买、Target和Nordstrom等主要零售商),它会变成teal。当你在一个不是的网站上购物时,图标是灰色的。 ...
每年,随着节日的临近,世界各地的家庭**在一起,用节日的装饰、各种风味的盛宴来庆祝,还经常交换礼物。在这个节日里,人们很容易忘记的一个事实是,全世界有很多家庭都在努力把食物摆上餐桌。 ...
亚马逊正在向全美数以百万计的顾客邮寄印刷的节日目录。它的标题是“游戏的节日”,里面装满了孩子们今年圣诞节想要的最热门的玩具。亚马逊希望你能从他们那里购买。 ...
...?买一件完美的礼物似乎一年比一年难。这就是为什么从亚马逊的愿望清单中选择一些东西是如此的有用。 ...
... 打开节日照片,按Ctrl/Cmd+A,然后按Ctrl/Cmd+C复制它。移回空白画布选项卡。按Ctrl/Cmd+V将图像粘贴到页面上。 ...
...但那是老派的做事方式。帮你自己和你爱的人一个忙,用亚马逊的愿望清单代替。 使用亚马逊心愿单作为圣诞清单有很多好处: 不管怎样,送礼者很可能会在亚马逊上购买你的礼物:在去年圣诞节即将到来之际,76%的购物者表...