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Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by dbeley »

- https://github.com/dbeley/fdroid-insights: just a simple website to help me find popular and well-maintained F-Droid apps

- https://github.com/dbeley/lastfm_cg: a scriptable lastfm collage generator (it has been active on my Mastodon account https://mamot.fr/@dbeley for years now)

And on the same model as F-Droid Insights but with different data sources:

- https://github.com/dbeley/firefox-addons-table: to discover Firefox addons available on NUR repository

- https://github.com/dbeley/lpa-table: to discover Linux apps tracked on LinuxPhoneApps.org

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by smeej »

flyingpuffin wrote: post #193

I created this website ( https://unexploredhq.com/ ) to find unexplored places for travel with my SO. Instead of going to cliched places like Paris in France, I can input an area or region and then select attributes of this place (eg Sunny, Beach, Mountains) .. and see the list of places which satisfy my constraints. In future, I plan to integrate a Flight API so that I can add a constraint of finding places within a…

I might be misunderstanding, but I tried what seemed like a pretty basic search, selecting Eastern Europe region and lake and hiking for attributes, and it didn't come up with anything.

Are there more nuances I should be aware of when trying to search?

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by solarkraft »

smeej wrote: post #277
solarkraft wrote: post #136

I like using my E-Reader to read things, and often "things" will be articles on the web. But I also like making annotations and like the reading app I use (KOReader) quite a lot, so firing up a browser would hurt the experience. So I made a script that turns websites into cleaned-up epub files that get synced over to my E-Reader: https://github.com/solarkraft/webpub It's deliberately engineered just far enough to be…

I love KOReader and also strongly prefer reading on my ereader (really an eInk Android tablet), but I've never found a great way to get the annotations and highlights out of KOReader and into my PKM, Logseq, where I could actually make good use of them. Logseq works with markdown files, so it doesn't have to be anything very sophisticated in terms of export format. I recently reached out to the team behind Omnivore,…

Ha, what a coincidence! I use Logseq as well. And ... yeah. I don't really do anything with the KOReader highlights, which I know wastes a lot of potential.

I don't really feel like Logseq would be the right place to put annotations - the surrounding text is hugely important in my case.

For annotating web pages I also use hypothes.is, which also has its issues with reviewing past highlights (but does seem to have a data format conducive to importing from different sources).

It would be great to be able to pull all this stuff into an application specifically made for research - perhaps Zotero.

But I haven't really found any workflow that vibes with me.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by bruwozniak »

An iOS (and MacOS) Hacker News Widget. Very simple, the links let you quickly preview the linked page and comments, read only.

https://imgur.com/a/QZ7NWlW

Moving from Android to an iPhone some years back, it was the only thing I missed. So far haven't released this to the appstore but if there is interest, I could.

Re: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

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Post by jandinter »

I built a website for box breathing: https://box-breathing.com

It is basically a timer for your breathing exercises, as the idea is that you inhale and exhale slowly, hold your breath in between, each step lasting 4 seconds.

I tried to make it as simple as possible, and to make it usable with old devices as well.

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