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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

Wow, I didn't know you could use Spotlight to do calculations! Thank you!

For anyone on macOS who doesn't know, hit command + spacebar.

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

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Qbserve ( https://qotoqot.com/qbserve/ ) when I was on macOS, now RescueTime + Custom New URL Tab (Chrome extension) pointing to https://www.rescuetime.com/browse/productivity/by/hour/ , so I get immediate feedback on my productivity (motivates me to keep moving) or slacking (motivates me to start working). I cannot stress enough the word immediate . Delayed reports (after a week, after a day, or whenever I check) su…

RE: RescueTime new URL tab.. that's really clever! Stealing this for myself. Cheers

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

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296 hours myself. I have also been pleased with Overcast until just recently. Now that I am stuck at home, I went from listening to all my podcasts from my phone to listening to most of them from my computer. Overcast's lack of desktop app and pretty poor web interface are causing me to consider switching for the first time.

I don't love its web interface. But its ability to do the smartspeed thing + sync the played status to my phone for when I move from my desk to walking the dogs has been enough to stave off the switch for me. What are you thinking about switching to?

I use Pocket Casts specifically for the synchronization between my phone and the web interface.

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

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post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

296 hours myself. I have also been pleased with Overcast until just recently. Now that I am stuck at home, I went from listening to all my podcasts from my phone to listening to most of them from my computer. Overcast's lack of desktop app and pretty poor web interface are causing me to consider switching for the first time.

I don't love its web interface. But its ability to do the smartspeed thing + sync the played status to my phone for when I move from my desk to walking the dogs has been enough to stave off the switch for me. What are you thinking about switching to?

I switched from Overcast to Pocketcasts. Everything I liked about Overcast plus playlists I can figure out how to use.

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

#506

Charles Proxy (paid version) No need to insert logging into legacy codebases with frontend, service, and monolithic backend apps while on local. Just load up Charles and reconfigure provider URLs to route through the proxy, add a filter or two, and boom, all comms are visible in one place, easily searchable, exportable, replayable. It can be a memory hog when left running ,and I wish I could "pop out" portions of the…

Try proxyman, the UI is so much better

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

#508

The golden recipe: neovim, tmux, rg, fzf, i3/other tiling wm on nixos/arch Fzf all you can, not just inside vim, but also use it to switch between tmux sessions in an instant. I have a tmux manager on top of tmuxp that is able to start / switch to already started sessions via fzf. Identify patterns you use a lot and make snippets out of them. Create project templates. Have a folder where you dump reference / things t…

I really need to get around to fixing my arch, its still left mid-reinstall after at least a month (and I'm lost on the networking for the 2nd time, you'd think I'd have learned by this point)

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

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Vscode remote plugins. Being able to have the full-fledged editor remotely on a Linux development machine is a game changer.

Nope, that's the one. Not sure why it's slow and buggy for you. It's almost as fast as vscode is for me locally. What bugs did you have?

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

#510
This isn't a program, but the document shortcuts (mostly the ones beginning with the control key)[0] on OSX have saved me heaps of time while maneuvering through text.

I learned them from Emacs on Linux and was pleasantly surprised to find that they work in almost every app on OSX.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236#text

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