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Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by stranded22 »

Eggsellence wrote: post #62
eddieroger wrote: post #4

Todoist. My wife and I can share lists, assign tasks, track completion, all sorts of stuff. It’s not perfect, but I’m really mostly happy with it. Also, setting up an iCloud family. Most of the sharing stuff we can do can be done without being in a family unit, but it makes it that much easier since it makes assumptions about who I wish to share with. From there, native Notes, Calendar, all that stuff has made our li…

I've been Todoist user for many years, premium user as of this year. As well as reminders, tasks, and appointments, I use it to quickly take notes, record thoughts, etc. It's been great until this week when I hit their ridiculously low limit: 300. That's not many tasks/notes, especially as each sub task is counted individually too. Why is it so low? I'm a paying user. I'm probably burdening their servers with all of…

If you have 300+ tasks / notes, I’d look at separating the notes out… I expect there are better note oriented apps.

I used to use todoist but now use TickTick- similar but with some extra features. The non-premium is awful though, you have to sign up for a proper workable product (it is cheaper than todoist)

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by theshrike79 »

daft_pink wrote: post #42

Flow Club is a virtual coworking website and it's been the best thing for my productivity. It's been the biggest positive impact for me in my life. I just find it keeps me on task and makes me a lot more productive vs the gtd rabbit hole that I fell down before. I really like Superhuman and Obsidian as well. I used to use notion, but I find obsidian to just work a lot faster and be more free form. I pay for the Chatg…

I'm still split between Notion and Obsidian.

On the other hand Notion makes it super easy for me to share a set of stuff with my family, like recipes or travel plans

On the other hand Obsidian's markdown-formatting is more for me

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by theshrike79 »

sbalamurugan wrote: post #71

I went all in on apple ecosystem this year after literally 13 years of using android. Wife and I got iPhone 14 Pro, Apple Watch 8 and AirPods Pro. Got HomePod mini and Apple TV for home. We got bunch of home kit compatible tech at home (baby monitor, smart plugs, bulbs etc). We also subscribe to apple one family. The results are fantastic. Everything works with everything else, which is impossible to explain without…

Pro app tip for media consumption on the Apple ecosystem: Infuse (https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/infuse-video-player/id11362209...)

It can play media off pretty much anything. I use it to connect to multiple Plex instances (I have a System :D) and I've added a few local folders along with OneDrive and Dropbox to it.

It has apps for macOS, tvOS iPadOS and iOS that sync between each other.

So in your case you could just use Infuse on Apple TV and connect it to a directory on your Mac, then play stuff directly from that share.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by theshrike79 »

endisneigh wrote: post #110
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #95

My own family dashboard. I did not purchase it but wrote myself and it was a life changer. It is an always-on screen (during the day) where everything family oriented happens: all our calendars merged for today and tomorrow (and important events within 6 days), weather, when kids are back from school, info when I am on my way back from work, various alerts on stuff breaking at home, etc. When I finally installed it,…

Seems like a fun project but couldn’t you do the same thing easily with a shared combined calendar and a tablet of your choice displaying said calendar?

No, because then you're just limited into showing a single calendar.

Some stuff you want in agenda-format (next 5 events on the calendar), others you want in a monthly view, others in daily or weekly.

And then you have alerts, weather etc that doesn't really fit the calendar format that well.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by klondike_klive »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #94

Bitwarden. I have an easy way to exchange a huge amount of data (not only passwords) across my family with specific access rights to objects.

Ugh that reminds me I've been promising for ages to migrate all my partner's passwords over from the ridiculously overpriced LastPass.

Out of interest, how do you use Bitwarden day-to-day - browser extension?

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by endisneigh »

theshrike79 wrote: post #124
endisneigh wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like a fun project but couldn’t you do the same thing easily with a shared combined calendar and a tablet of your choice displaying said calendar?

No, because then you're just limited into showing a single calendar. Some stuff you want in agenda-format (next 5 events on the calendar), others you want in a monthly view, others in daily or weekly. And then you have alerts, weather etc that doesn't really fit the calendar format that well.

interesting. in that case I'd use widgets on an ipad which support all of those use cases.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by codingdave »

theshrike79 wrote: post #124
endisneigh wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like a fun project but couldn’t you do the same thing easily with a shared combined calendar and a tablet of your choice displaying said calendar?

No, because then you're just limited into showing a single calendar. Some stuff you want in agenda-format (next 5 events on the calendar), others you want in a monthly view, others in daily or weekly. And then you have alerts, weather etc that doesn't really fit the calendar format that well.

You are over-engineering this concept. A simple shared calendar absolutely would work. If you want more features, go for it, but that doesn't mean a shared calendar is a non-functional solution.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by OJFord »

stranded22 wrote: post #121
Eggsellence wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been Todoist user for many years, premium user as of this year. As well as reminders, tasks, and appointments, I use it to quickly take notes, record thoughts, etc. It's been great until this week when I hit their ridiculously low limit: 300. That's not many tasks/notes, especially as each sub task is counted individually too. Why is it so low? I'm a paying user. I'm probably burdening their servers with all of…

If you have 300+ tasks / notes, I’d look at separating the notes out… I expect there are better note oriented apps. I used to use todoist but now use TickTick- similar but with some extra features. The non-premium is awful though, you have to sign up for a proper workable product (it is cheaper than todoist)

What's awful with non-premium TickTick? I've been considering paying just to support it, not aware of a feature or limitation driving me to.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by eddieroger »

simbolit wrote: post #43
chasd00 wrote: post #29

We all (family of 4) have iPhones and use FindMy to see where everyone is and when they’re going to be home to time dinner. We also have a family chat on iMessage that really comes in handy.

So you are using FM not as an emergency tool, but generally? Does that mean in your family everyone (potentially) always knows where everyone else is? Is there a rule for when/if it's appropriate to turn FM off? Please don't read this as me judging; if that works for you, great, I'd (as far as i understand it) not want that, but it's not my life.

I leave it on voluntarily with my family. We all have the ability to see where each other is, but no one uses it for nefarious reasons because we trust each other. My brother will check where I am before calling because he knows I can't always answer. I will check quickly and see if my wife is at work when I finish to see if I have time for a dog walk or should consider starting dinner. It's nice to see how close my aunt is before picking me up for a football game.

I also share location with some friends. I have one who is a professional photographer, and it's neat to see the interesting places she gets to go. Her mother also finds it comforting that I can find her if she's ever unresponsive for a long period of time. Another friend of mine was passing through my town, and saw I was home, so stopped by to visit. Unexpected and pleasant.

Your last point is key - it's totally fine to not want this feature, but it's nice for those of us who do. To each their own.

Re: Ask HN: What software did you purchase that positively impacted your family life

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Post by dev_0 »

hypertexthero wrote: post #3

I don’t have to, but I pay for Open Broadcaster Studio’s software through their Patreon page because learning to use it to stream was fun, made me learn valuable skills, and helped me make new friends and keep in touch with old ones. https://obsproject.com/ https://www.patreon.com/obsproject/overview

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