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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite everyday app or product?

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Post by pavel_lishin »

Man, I'm glad you're enjoying StoryGraph, but when I explored it as an alternative to Goodreads, the UX/UI was just not working for me. I'm genuinely considering just storing this data in a spreadsheet or a flat file.

For me, RememberTheMilk is a great task app. I mean, I still have problems getting things done, but at least I know they're there.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite everyday app or product?

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Post by amruta2799 »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #3

Man, I'm glad you're enjoying StoryGraph, but when I explored it as an alternative to Goodreads, the UX/UI was just not working for me. I'm genuinely considering just storing this data in a spreadsheet or a flat file. For me, RememberTheMilk is a great task app. I mean, I still have problems getting things done, but at least I know they're there.

As a reading log, I found it pretty similar to GoodReads -- no major differentiating factor here. But the reading stats and custom reading challenges are game-changers for me.

Thanks for the rec! Looking it up now :)

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite everyday app or product?

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Post by meristohm »

Linux Mint (both the Debian Edition and the one based on Debian via Ubuntu); I've been free of Microsoft products for awhile now (never had a Macintosh, but I used them in school) with no regrets.

I also appreciate Firefox, Thunderbird, Libby (by Overdrive, for accessing public library materials), Calibre (for epub management and sometimes reading, often for easily looking up cooking recipes thanks to full-text search), and KOReader (my child needs the text bigger than the stock Kobo can do; KOReader delivers, on this and other features). Oh and Steam, for making it easy to keep up with friends via videogames despite having ditched Windows.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite everyday app or product?

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Post by amruta2799 »

meristohm wrote: post #6

Linux Mint (both the Debian Edition and the one based on Debian via Ubuntu); I've been free of Microsoft products for awhile now (never had a Macintosh, but I used them in school) with no regrets. I also appreciate Firefox, Thunderbird, Libby (by Overdrive, for accessing public library materials), Calibre (for epub management and sometimes reading, often for easily looking up cooking recipes thanks to full-text searc…

Love Libby! And that's another vote for Thunderbird.

Looking up the other recs :)

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