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

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Post by soheilpro »

laurentl wrote: post #3

BeyondCompare (cited in the original thread), especially the folder comparison feature. Saved my sanity when our team's shared directory stopped syncing silently on my laptop and I had to figure out which files I needed to sync manually. WizTree ( https://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-... ) is a freeware Windows utility (man, typing this took me back to 1997) that lets you quickly see which file…

Second that. Cannot imagine living without Beyond Compare.

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

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Post by Arubis »

wwweston wrote: post #33
Ozlone wrote: post #29

- Emacs (with evil mode) and org-mode. The hours gained far outweigh the hours put in (and the hours put in were fun). - Yabai on mac for not having to think about moving windows around. - Pomodoro (now through org-mode) for helping focus (and saving hours, in a round-about-way.) - Removing as much advertising from my life as possible. (Ublock origin, deleting social networks when possible)

Anyone know what the best way to set up Emacs on macOS is?

Best is subjective, but my current go-to is:

```

$ brew tap d12frosted/emacs-plus

$ brew install emacs-plus [options]

```

Cf. https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus

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

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Post by cgranier »

Excel's Power Query just saved my countless hours last week in cleaning up and merging two huge csv databases.

Learning the YouTube APIs saved me thousands of hours on editing video metadata, organizing playlists, etc (https://github.com/cgranier/pytube).

Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/) is a wonderful file search tool for Windows.

Thanks for all the links and ideas... new things to try this week.

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

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wwweston wrote: post #33
Ozlone wrote: post #29

- Emacs (with evil mode) and org-mode. The hours gained far outweigh the hours put in (and the hours put in were fun). - Yabai on mac for not having to think about moving windows around. - Pomodoro (now through org-mode) for helping focus (and saving hours, in a round-about-way.) - Removing as much advertising from my life as possible. (Ublock origin, deleting social networks when possible)

Anyone know what the best way to set up Emacs on macOS is?

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

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Post by rrggrr »

Hazel... File organization. Bitbar... Menubar status of everything. Amethyst... Window manager. Cloud9 IDE... Cloud based Dev and deployment. Integromat... Blows the doors off zapier. Mixmax... Gmail enhancements incant live without. Hellosign.

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

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Post by tdy721 »

I wrote a prime number finding function in coffee script and python just for fun. Saved me a lot of time, factoring numbers is hard. I’d also like to mention javascript again, I can say I’ve played millions of hands of video poker. Without those programming environments I’d still be shuffling cards or dividing numbers.

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

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Post by pimlottc »

firloop wrote: post #22

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…

And for those who don't know, youtube-dl supports many, many other sites besides YouTube, including Vimeo, TikTok, Dailymotion, Twitch, YouKu, LiveLeak, Streamable and more.

Full list: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

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