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Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
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Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#32I built a platform for developing "mini" webapps. My thesis is that "one size does not fit all" in many domains, such a productivity, life-logging, health tracking, etc. So by using my platform you can build many useful apps with just JS code that runs in the browser and syncs back to a "primitive server" (the server just implements a couple of basic operations). In principle you can use any front-end framework, but…
This is super cool. I don't know if motivation to build custom widget but very nice architecture.
Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#33I haven't released it yet, but I've been working on (and using) a clone of OmniFocus. It'll be open-sourced soonish, though I want to get it into a slightly better state before I do.
I love OmniFocus, it's good software, but my current job is really paranoid about third-party apps that phone home in any capacity. While I'm aware that you can point OmniFocus to a custom WebDAV server, there's always a risk that I forget to do that, end up sending something mildly proprietary to a third party and then getting in trouble. If I code it up myself, I do not have to worry about that; it will only send data to places where I tell it to.
OmniFocus also has the disadvantage of being Mac+iOS only. I currently only have an iPhone and a Mac so that works well enough, but when I had an Android phone for about five months last year I really ended up missing it.
Obviously there are millions of TODO apps out there, but I really like OmniFocus' project layout and reminders and the like, and it actually fits the ClojureScript + Re-frame model reasonably well.
Right now I'm just doing some Electron stuff, but I will probably start working on a port to React Native when I do the phone port, if I can get that working with ClojureScript.
Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#34I'm a front-end developer who specialises in Typescript. I made a Home Assistant add-on that allows me to code all my automations in TS with type safety and autocompletions. Once I had been using it for a good few months and saw its potential, I put some effort into making it open source, although I'm pretty sure I'm still the only user
Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#35A web-based "note taking app with weird functionality I want, with a bit of an Acme feel" is the latest one (README severely outdated, but I post screenshots and screen captures of new features in Twitter to leave myself a track record to update it) https://github.com/rberenguel/weave
Somewhat earlier, expiring tabs for Chrome https://github.com/rberenguel/bestBefore
Most of my projects are in one way or another scratching my own itches.
Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#36I've been working on an app that helps me track job applications and interviews. It includes a Chrome extension that let's me easily save job descriptions, company information and contacts from LinkedIn. I also use AI to parse the job descriptions, etc. Prior to this I was doing a lot of copy and pasting in a giant spreadsheet.
The next feature is to start pulling down jobs from LinkedIn and other job boards and apply very specific filters based on my wants, experience, etc. The filters on most websites never seem to be good enough for my needs.
Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#37Who does not? If you have the ability to make computer do things for you, or control databases, or whatnot, it's really a no brainer to make your life easier this way. You can pretty much adapt your solution exactly to what you need/want.
Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#38- A replacement for Google Desktop Search, a mini python app that puts up a textbox that can launch a Google search after me clicking Ctrl Ctrl anywhere.
- A script that syncs my work calendar to my private calendar.
- A GUI app to manage my Jira worklogs in a calendar view, after my company decided to ditch the Jira plugin providing that functionality as it was expensive and unstable. https://github.com/marczellm/NWork
Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#39I recently built a cli called "standup" which given a git sha, will pass the diffs + commit messages to an LLM and produce a standup message.
I still edit it a little but it saves time and means I never forget about stuff unless ofc it's not tracked by git.
Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?
#40A small but extremely useful shell script which can be run with the 'f' command. It fuzzy finds over a subset of directories and pulls the path I want. I can then pick from a series of small workflows with a single keystroke such as jumping to the directory and running a 'ls', opening the file, opening the file in a text editor, opening the file in Mac finder, searching for text within the file or directory, etc. It has mostly replaced most terminal navigation and has been extremely useful.