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Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by dllu »

* Simple markdown-like markup language with math support for my website/blog. I did it so that I get nice SVG equations that show up without things jumping around all the time while it's rendering. https://github.com/dllu/dllup

* Some janky scripts to download photos from my camera's SD card and upload it to my Backblaze B2 for sharing: https://github.com/dllu/pupphoto

I also have a personal "new tab homepage" with links to my favourite websites, forms for my favourite engines/search etc, the current weather where I live (with temperature in Kelvin), and the current date/time.

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by Linux-Fan »

Productivity software for myself:

I have added an undocumented option (--ical URL) to my script `mai3bar` that by default displays CPU, RAM and HDD usage alongside a wall time clock. When the `--ical` parameter is added, it detects whether there is an appointment within the same working day and counts down the minutes to it. Once the event is 15min away, it turns yellow and then red at 5min to go. This way, I can attend the events without having any distracting prior ”notifications”. Just occasionally glance the colors in the status bar... https://masysma.net/32/i3bar.xhtml>.

Another productivity measure was to write down many of the “vector workflow” commands that I use to pre and postprocess various graphics, including making aliases for hard-to-remember syntax of commands (rsvg-convert ... -> svg2pdf here: https://github.com/m7a/lp-conf-cli/blob/master/svg2pdf>). The vector graphics stuff is collected in a long, searchable document here: https://masysma.net/37/vector_workflow.xhtml>.

My start page “Information and Links” helps me to quickly access the accurate and applicable documentation for some programming environments that I work with and allows keeping a list of links in the same UI https://masysma.net/32/ial.xhtml>. Complete with VI-inspired key bindings :)

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by bachmeier »

Hundreds of scripts/apps to automate and track stuff over the years. The most recent is a wiki with a slightly modified Quill editor (no public repo). I use it to track the things I'm working on that day and to capture items as they come in. It doesn't offer much over something like Obsidian, but critically, a self-contained version can be kept in any repo and used by coauthors without them needing to know anything about Obsidian.

The most recent "from scratch" app is used to track my projects. I never felt the existing solutions did a good job. Writing my own let me customize it just for my needs (also no public repo, and really not likely to be interesting to anyone else).

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by Linux-Fan »

dllu wrote: post #61

* Simple markdown-like markup language with math support for my website/blog. I did it so that I get nice SVG equations that show up without things jumping around all the time while it's rendering. https://github.com/dllu/dllup * Some janky scripts to download photos from my camera's SD card and upload it to my Backblaze B2 for sharing: https://github.com/dllu/pupphoto I also have a personal "new tab homepage" with l…

> * Simple markdown-like markup language with math support for my website/blog. I did it so that I get nice SVG equations that show up without things jumping around all the time while it's rendering. https://github.com/dllu/dllup

Nice design and nice page :) I was wondering whether I should post my own take which has a set of similar requirements, too, but figured that at least currently it does not give much “productivity” but is more of a free-time activity for myself.

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by rich_sasha »

A variation on the pomodoro timer, where you get promoted when the segment ends, but the clock keeps ticking. You have to manually move to the next segment, and the app times actual time spent per zone.

This lets me use this for tracking efficiency, not just structuring the day. I also find it excessively rigid to force myself to stop a work segment on precisely 25 min tick.

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by telotortium »

Several Python scripts and Chrome extensions to bookmark articles on the web to Pocket and Anki, so that I can be reminded of interesting articles in the future using spaced repetition. These are for personal use, so not completely documented, but anyone interested in using them can email me or open issues on Github.

- https://github.com/telotortium/anki-note-saver - Chrome extension to save articles to Anki

- [telotortium/anki-math-ocr: OCR Anki images using Google Gemini Pro](https://github.com/telotortium/anki-math-ocr)

- [telotortium/anki-year-delay: Reschedules Anki notes with a certain tag into the future.] (https://github.com/telotortium/anki-year-delay)

- [telotortium/anki-articles-to-org: Export Article notes in Anki as individual Org-mode files to a directory](https://github.com/telotortium/anki-articles-to-org)

- [telotortium/pockexport-to-anki: Create Anki cards from your Pocket saves](https://github.com/telotortium/pockexport-to-anki)

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by elseleigh »

A personal website built with markdown and javascript. A website generator to keep that personal site up to date. A utility to download and parse Electronic Programme Guides to schedule TV shows I want to watch. Scripts to build dynamic email signatures for my multiple email accounts. Many others that I no longer use.

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by craig »

martinni wrote: post #58
craig wrote: post #39

I 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.

That's really cool, do you mind sharing?

Sure! https://github.com/craigmulligan/standup

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by simonsarris »

I programmed a garden planner just for myself, to keep track of cultivars in the orchard and rose varieties. Originally it was to let other people help me design the garden, but now I have garden design nailed down (well, for this year).

https://garden.simonsarris.com/

A few people have asked me to make it generalized so they can use it too, but that might take some time. Maybe in the winter.

Re: Ask HN: Have you coded any productivity software just for yourself?

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Post by friend_and_foe »

Yes. I'm an avid qutebrowser user, and I have a voracious appetite for learning, reading, and perpetually unfinished projects. So I created a tool to help me organize information in qutebrowser very effectively and I use it daily. It's basically like OneTab but for qutebrowser. The entire UI is just HTML files, since they're browser native and simple, and can be opened in any browser you like. No unneeded complexity.

https://codeberg.org/mister_monster/tab-manager/

I also wrote a little script for converting Firefox open tab export text files into HTML compatible with this tool, I haven't published it yet, I want to implement doing that with chromium based browsers as well before I do, but it will basically enable you to import your open chromium and Firefox tabs as sessions in tab-manager in qutebrowser, and it's not limited to that, since it's just HTML you can open it in any browser you like. If you care about that just check my codeberg in the future some time and see if it is there.

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