Post your random tips here

-Zotero is legit the best application for keeping your essay sources sorted. If you use chrome or Firefox you can install the add on that will just grab everything off a page or pdf (author, date, title, book #, ect) and add it to the folder of your choice. It also auto creates bibliographies and in text citations for all items you select at a time. (I used to dread sourcing things because there wasn't a good site to help keep track of it all, and now with zotero I'm actually drowning in too many sources).

-Cant write a section in your story? Placeholder the paragraph with a summary of what you want to happen and move to a different scene that comes easier to you at that time.

Random tip cause i can't get it out of my mind.. if you're an artist, I feel like you should know.. Male and Female button-ups, flannels.. their buttons are not on the same side. Male lays on the right and Female lays on the left.. The same sometimes but not always goes for zippable-jackets, hoodies, etc.

So, idk, if you want to draw accurate clothing, there you go. If you don't, now you know this random fact.. and that they put buttons and zippers on the opposite side for opposite sexes for some reason

I think most people know this by now, but if you need to proofread something you wrote, changing the font to, like... comic sans and altering the size does wonders. When you look at anything long enough consistently, you start becoming "blind" to errors and fill in the blanks yourself. Doing this is a way to refresh it while you're immediately working versus waiting.

Use Watercolor brushes and other who slightly mix colors when painting digitally.   It's my top tip for people who try lineless but struggle. Please don't use airbrush for details. It's way too soft 

And another art tip. Use multiply layer and use dark blue or violets for shading. (Other dark colors work too, depending on the atmosphere and theme of you art piece ) Works for most cases. And please don't make the shading 5% opacity.  Most "shaded" art I see, also in commission listing are literally flat color.

if you play modded sims 4 im begging you, turn on origin offline mode if u wanna play the day of a patch and give creators a bit to update or you WILL explode everything

If You're looking for a computer on a budget, look at refurbished systems. They're usually pretty cheap because they're older models & have upgraded hardware. (+ usually they come with a clean OS install so they shouldn't have a lot of bloatware)

Edit: laptop shopping tip is see how upgradable it is. That way if you need more ram or storage in the future, the option to save money and upgrade is always there. Can't apply to Apple (their devices aren't built for upgrading) but for windows stuff it's always worth checking if you can.

Brush your teeth, your future self will thank you

one that my dad always says when i ask to tip the waiter: "never pet a burning dog"

This dark mode addon on chrome was really cool because you can saw which page you already clicked. ( it's red when it's clicked. )

Also on this website called storygraph for books, I generally watch the number of reviews and the rating. If it's 4 stars+ for many reviews like 100+reviews means that it is very good. ( even it's sometimes overhyped. ) 3,90-3,70 stars can be very great too! When it's 3,60 is below that it's very average or that people have trouble with the work. Also I recommend watching people profile booklist for book recommendations than the algorithm given on the website.

The alto saxophone can read the baritone/trombone's music and vice versa!

For the sax, read the music normally, but add three sharps to the key signature (and remember that each sharp cancels out a flat if there are some already in the signature)

For baritone or trombone, you'd add three flats instead.

if you're an artist, don't feel the need to draw every single day. growing up, I always heard that... "draw everyday!" 

no. you'll burn yourself out. and that's not healthy

If you get logged out of nowhere, check your URL. Your browser consider www.toyhou.se and Toyhou.se as two different websites. You can be logged in one but not the other, which is why you seems to have logged out when getting from a link to another.

edit: woops wait did someone bumped it? I just noticed the last message was almost 3 months old. :X

Whole Uncut veggies are better for storage/if you can't immediately use them. While it's still good to use them ASAP, because they're in an uncut form they won't spoil as fast.

Also, avoid precut salad bags unless you're going to use it all immediately. Those spoil fast.