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

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

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Post by Leftium »

al_borland wrote: post #13

I've been using Kagi for about a year and love it. Searching without ads, with a bunch of power-user features, and a thoughtful approach to AI, has been very nice. - https://kagi.com I've also been enjoying NotePlan. I stumbled upon a system I like for managing my work in Obsidian at work using some plugins, and then found NotePlan is basically an app designed around the exact system I cobbled together, with some add…

I'm working on an even more user-friendly version of Merry Sky: https://weather-sense.leftium.com

Still very WIP, but I'd love any feedback/requests. (What do you wish either Merry Sky or Weather Sense did differently?)

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

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Post by Janymos »

GeneralMaximus wrote: post #20

There are a ton of little macOS apps I love. Part of the reason I’m married to the Apple ecosystem, despite wanting to switch out of it. I’ve written hundreds of thousands of words in iA Writer over the years. It’s the only way I can get any writing done, I find every other writing app too distracting. Somebody on HN called it an “overpriced minimalist lifestyle app” in a reply to one of my comments, not realizing th…

IA Writer is awesome

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

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Post by Rediscover »

archargelod wrote: post #18

Termux. I love terminals, and to have one on the go is a godsend. I use it for all kinds of things like password storing (my own custom little program[1]), `dict` for looking up some english words, reading man pages during long train rides, managing my VPS through ssh, `ncdu` for clearing up some storage space. I use aria2 cli to download big files often 10 times faster than standard android download system. If I hav…

Now that it's mentioned... Yeah, Termux. I use it all the time. I used to always have a small laptop and/or a wearable with me constantly, now those are often still with me but Termux (with the Hacker's Keyboard) has reduced my carrying of those. I possibly spend more time (on my phone) in Termux than all the other apps combined (including the browser "apps").

Thanks for alerting me to my usage (reliance?) of it.

Bonus: Most everything also syncs easily, for me, with my more traditional computers with rsync or scp from/to a Termux session.

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