Increased productivity comes in many flavours, but a favourite of mine is learning new hotkeys which save me time. There is also nothing quite like the reaction you get from a person who has been doing something the hard way and you show them a hotkey to jump right to it.
When you first open Spotify you are offered two tabs ‘What’s new’ and ‘Top lists’. If you select ‘Top lists’ you are then shown two columns which contain a list of the top rated artists, albums and tracks for everywhere, your country or just you.
So you can select to see what tracks, albums or artist you listen to most, or see what are the most popular with others.
As far as the tracks list goes, you can also play it. Choose ‘Tracks’ from the drop down menu on the left, and choose ‘everywhere’ from the drop down menu on the right. You now have a list of Spotify’s top tracks for the whole world. There is no simple ‘play’ button, but these steps aren’t too taxing…
Sound like a right pain in the arse? It’s surprisingly simple actually….
The steps to creating a simple locally run php Coda plugin:
You must have php installed and running locally.
Start the plugin file with theses lines:
#!/usr/bin/php -q < ?php
(no space between < and ?php)
Where /use/bin/php is the path to you local php install
Update: This method is no longer required. As of August 2010 Spotify now has it’s own Playlist Folders feature.
Ok, so you can’t currently (June 2009) have Playlist Folders in Spotify, but this is the next best thing. I promise. I will also sprinkle sugar on it by showing you how to make the left column wider than the allowed maximum.
It is mentioned on the Panic site, but it took me ages to find it.
You can add bookmarks or tags to a file that will appear on Coda’s code navigator. Most of the time it’s as simple as an !
CSS: /* !bookmark */ HTML: <!-- !bookmark --> Javascript: /* !bookmark */ or // !bookmark PHP: /* !bookmark */ or // !bookmark
You can of course replace the word bookmark with anything you like.
For a full list:
http://www.panic.com/coda/developer/quicktip/5.php