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Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Everything[0] by Voidtools as a Windows search replacement. It makes search practically instant. Now that Windows search often fails to turn up even my most used files (what happened to Windows search? Was it intentionally nerfed?), Everything has become a necessity for me. [0]: https://www.voidtools.com/

FSearch is an equivalent for Linux.

https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Spacemacs! Apart from the obvious evil mode navigation stuff:

- Magit, to quickly organize hunks into commits and do general git things

- Org mode, to organize TODOs, thoughts and even draft code snippets and designs

- Language-specific layers with great features (usually REPLs, support for refactoring, autocomplete — stuff you expect from any other IDE).

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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post #69

Everything[0] by Voidtools as a Windows search replacement. It makes search practically instant. Now that Windows search often fails to turn up even my most used files (what happened to Windows search? Was it intentionally nerfed?), Everything has become a necessity for me. [0]: https://www.voidtools.com/

There's also Agent Ransack for searching file content. I don't use Windows much nowadays, but ripgrep and fzf are sure handy on linux and mac.

I use ripgrep and fd on Windows as well. Nothing stopping you from doing so.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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Here's a couple (albeit macOS focused) favorites of mine: - Deliveries: macOS / iOS package tracking https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/deliveries-a-package-tracker... - Screenotate: OCR all of your screenshots with metadata like program/webpage https://screenotate.com - The Tagger: lightweight macOS utility to tag music / fetch metadata from discogs https://deadbeatsw.com/thetagger/ - youtube-dl: Download any video / s…

I'd be careful with package tracking. While I don't know if that particular app resell your purchase data. That one is paid, so they may not need to right now, but they may change that in the future. I know many other similar (Slice, Unroll.me, etc.) products do. It's an easy, high ROI monetization strategy.

Re: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

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- IntelliJ IDEA [ https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ ] (surprised no one mentioned it yet) - Spotlight - for quick calculations - Contexts [ https://contexts.co/ ] and chunkwm for window management [ https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm ] - Maccy [ https://maccy.app/ ] for a decent and beautiful clipboard manager

I feel like I spend all my time waiting for Intellij IDEA to start up and reindex everything... Does anyone feel like it is snappy?

neither of those two actions are "snappy" but I guess its understandably so.

reindex everything should be happening that often unless caches are cleared; you might want to raise an issue if it's happening more often than you'd expected

what I'm more bothered by is the regressions that creep in either IDE or official plugin updates; I've spent some amount of time on every update I'd deem wasted, just to find a YouTrack issue on it :\

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