productivity Maintaining high productivity for developers - working in the morning. I want to share with you the best methods to maintain high productivity. These are carefully selected practices that work. I've tried every method I heard about in the last 17 years. Some
Programmer Interrupted: The Real Cost of Interruption and Context Switching Interruptions and context switching are probably the two most costly things, directly impacting programmer's daily productivity. When there is no way to permanently avoid them, there are some interesting strategies to minimalize their
Downloads VS 2022 installerVS 2019 (and 2017/2015) installerVS 2013 installerChangelog Version 1.83 (7/08/2022) [Minor changes]🤏 Removed more not relevant, repeated warnings from the output window. Version 1.82 (7/07/
My Top 7 Visual Studio plugins supporting deep work I want to share a couple of useful Visual Studio plugins that I'm using daily when working on the ContextKeeper. Those are mainly fitting in the "deep work" category and help
release Relative paths support in v1.8 and ContextKeeper was mentioned on the Jesse Liberty's podcast! What is ContextKeeper? ContextKeeper is Visual Studio plugins that lets you switch between last opened files (documents sets). Everything is saved to simple JSON files aka snapshots. Every snapshot saves: logical state your
roadmap Roadmap for 2022 July 16th 2021 was the first ContextKeeper beta release. It was late Friday when I had finished release note. Later it was sent to the 67 people who joined the beta program. The
release Search dialog (version 1.71) ContextKeeper v1.71 is released with long awaited search dialog! If you have more than few snapshot it will definitely improve your daily interactions with the plugin. I already have 29 snapshots, that
release Introducing snapshot stashing (version 1.6.25) I'm happy to announce that ContextKeeper v1.6.25 with snapshot stashing feature is available for Visual Studio 2022/2019/2017/2015 and 2013.I want to thank everyone for their time and
release ContextKeeper v1.5 released ContextKeeper v1.5 is available for Visual Studio 2022/2019/2017/2015 and 2013. I want to highlight some UX improvements.Quick snapshots deletionUse "Delete" + "Enter" at a selected snapshotThe last survey
git worktree Continuous auto-saving branch snapshots and git worktree support Starting from v1.0 ContextKeeper continuously auto-saves a git branch snapshot if a change is detected. When tabs with code are opened, moved or closed a new snapshot is generated. Also any changes
ContextKeeper Black Friday gift - VS 2022 support I have wanted to give you something special on Black Friday - how about ContextKeeper working on Visual Studio 2022? Version for VS 2022 is here. Enjoy! 🚀It works with VS 2022 and
Automatic snapshot switching when changing branches v1 📣 I'm really excited to announce that long-awaited feature is available today in the ContextKeeper v0.8 for Visual Studio 🐱🏍Download it today for VS 2019/2017/2015, for VS 2022 (separate installer) and
vsix ContextKeeper version 0.73 released The latest ContextKeeper 0.73 version was released a few days ago and I wanted to share with you what was changed and why. Shortcut to create a snapshotYou could now easily assign
ContextKeeper version 0.72 released ContextKeeper v0.72 is available and ready to use!This is a maintenance release that includes following fixes:modified and unsaved filename wasn't stored properly in a snapshot - additional asterix (*) was added
Hello World from ContextKeeper! I'm happy to announce the ContextKeeper 0.71 version is available in private beta. From now on you can safely store and switch between different programming contexts in seconds. A snapshot remembers last
Top 3 fixes: Visual Studio doesn't remember opened files but desperately I need them! Usual morning starts. The new day with new code challenges. You're eager to start fast and deliver something today. You know you will have the first phase of changes until noon. Dev machine