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Re: Ask HN: Productivity tools that need to exist?

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Post by wikiwatchme » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 6:49 PM UTC

lbr wrote: post #7

The comments are all great. And I appreciate them. But I suppose I'm most curious about the last question: what would you have a personal assistant do, if you had one?

I would have them handle all my email and attend time-wasting and useless meetings.

Re: Ask HN: Productivity tools that need to exist?

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 7:17 PM UTC

I just started a contract at a major bank, and have found an area (Dev tooling nothing bank related!) that was missing obvious parts and dove in.

I think productivity is partly good people, good open systems and partly leaving folks to get on and find the biggest pain points whilst not stuffing architecture up.

I think this works for non devs too and has next to nothing to do with productivity tools. I could have been using notepad and a shell and would have done as much useful work.

Re: Ask HN: Productivity tools that need to exist?

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Post by lifeisstillgood » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 7:19 PM UTC

karlkatzke wrote: post #2

Only mildly sarcastically: I need a natural language robot that can attend meetings for me and produce minutes and an artificial intelligence that can write an executive summary of those minutes, calling out anything should care about. Alternately, I need a robot attached to the back of my task chair that smacks me upside the head every time my brain segfaults and crashes to reddit. Alternately, I need a supervisor w…

Your supervisor wants daily updates because he does not trust the task mgmt tool - quite rightly because I doubt it is linked to the user acceptance and unit test runners and so is no indication of reality. Looking at you and hearing your voice is a better proxy of reality than a gang chart but nothing like tests

As for the NLP of meetings - yes please !!!

Re: Ask HN: Productivity tools that need to exist?

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Post by dllthomas » Tue, Jul 22, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

I'd like a good dashboard for my life.

Re: Ask HN: Productivity tools that need to exist?

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Post by petomodrak » Mon, Jul 28, 2014, 2:56 PM UTC

For me is the best important tool password manager. I can't imagine my work without it, it stores all my passwords, fills forms for me and I can focus only on work. Currently I am using Sticky password manager because I don't like to store my personal data to clouds. I am also using Toggl for time tracking because I used to waste my time a lot :) .