Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by zorr » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:27 PM UTC

No notifications aside from Signal, some Matrix channels of my OSS project and my work Teams.

All the rest including WhatsApp has notifications disabled. Phone is on DnD most of the time.

I occasionally check HN Frontpage,a local news website and a few selected subreddits and that's about it.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

#12

Post by shpx » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events, GitHub notifications, Stack Overflow and HN.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by prepend » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:29 PM UTC

For me it’s:

-HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”)

-Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff

-gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day

-discord once or twice a day to catch up with friends (this replaced old WhatsApp and Facebook messenger groups going back many years and there was a switch maybe 5 years when everyone stopped commenting on stuff publicly and moved to private rooms)

-I used to use reader and Feedly to bring everything into RSS but don’t have a replacement for it but have a lazy longing to recreate and test out different things. So I’m missing out on specific blogs and might check them every few weeks. I think this is a gap but things do come through to HN.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by lordnacho » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:32 PM UTC

turkeygizzard wrote: post #7

I run GPT on a cronjob to summarize my twitter timeline for me. I'm sure it's not perfect, but it catches a lot

What are the mechanics of doing that? How do you tell it what page to open, how far to scroll, what exactly you want to hear about, and how do you plug that into the model and get a result?

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by jqbx_jason » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:32 PM UTC

For business it's: twitter(https://www.twitter.com), linkedin((https://www.linkedin.com), heap(https://www.heap.io/), and zigpoll (https://www.zigpoll.com/)

For life it's: HN, reddit, WSJ, NYTimes

It does help to pause the loop for as long as possible though. I think the frequency of checking increases linearly with anxiety.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by lddemi » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:32 PM UTC

prepend wrote: post #13

For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…

Definitely recommend using Apollo with a little tuning for Reddit on mobile. Clean and clear of all their growth experiments

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by hasbot » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:33 PM UTC

Really just two: /r/politics and /r/news.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by DeathArrow » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:33 PM UTC

Between 2 and 4.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by ttul » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:33 PM UTC

prepend wrote: post #13

For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…

I appreciate that HN has extremely high quality moderation. There is virtually no garbage content. I don’t know how this magic is achieved, but I am grateful.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by ttul » Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 1:34 PM UTC

zorr wrote: post #11

No notifications aside from Signal, some Matrix channels of my OSS project and my work Teams. All the rest including WhatsApp has notifications disabled. Phone is on DnD most of the time. I occasionally check HN Frontpage,a local news website and a few selected subreddits and that's about it.

You are a productivity god.