Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? • Hacker News Board

mgirkins wrote: post #373

Like every programmer before me, I created a to-do list app of course! However, as a programmer, I prefer trees to lists so I made a to-do tree app. I have been using it religiously every day since to manage all aspects of my life in a way that I couldn't previously with tools like Wunderlist (RIP) or didn't have the time to make work in this way like Notion. Shockingly there aren't many other options out there for t…

Yeah, I loved Workflowy for this! https://workflowy.com

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

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Post by replwoacause » Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 5:05 AM UTC

jim180 wrote: post #41

A couple of them: Quick access for Fastmail Masked Emails (I use both, iCloud' Hide My Mail and Fastmail's Masked Email, so I needed something for Fastmail as well): https://apps.apple.com/lt/app/secret-inbox/id6462335670 Too Many Records: returns 3 records from my Discogs collections: https://apps.apple.com/lt/app/too-many-records/id6449257927

Secret inbox is just what I've been looking for! Having to log into Fastmail to get to this information is kind of a hassle, so I can't wait to try this out. Great job!

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Post by lgkk » Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 5:40 AM UTC

It’s a cli program and pretty easy to make.

Every 20 minutes that I’m logged into my mac, it literally “say Recalibrate Vision” yes it’s corny but I like it.

A good reminder to rest my eyes for a few seconds by looking way at something distant, and back to coding.

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Post by sanroot99 » Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 7:28 AM UTC

I created an android app that ssh to desktop to display it's resources usage, also a notification app that shows live ram usage

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

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Post by sanroot99 » Mon, Dec 18, 2023, 7:29 AM UTC

I play a lot with rofi script to automatic my desktop experience, I create a yt downloader script, dictionary while reading a llm frontend etc

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Post by IvanR3D » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 3:59 AM UTC

Otto robots web control (currently an open community project): https://ottodiy.github.io/OttoWebAppControl/

And

Todo list app: https://ivanr3d.com/tools/todoapp/

Also a little games to help me to learn flags of the world :)

https://ivanr3d.com/games/flagquiz/index.html

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Post by mfru » Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 1:08 PM UTC

_boffin_ wrote: post #571

ssz wrote: post #543

https://littlerbooks.com is where I summarize popular nonfiction books into bullet points so I can remember what I learned better. https://rate.house is a user generated media database. It's like IMDb but also has music, literature, video games, and podcasts. https://newsasfacts.com provides the most important news around the world concisely. https://wordhoot.com is a word guessing game inspired by Wordle featuring m…

Can you talk more about the underlying feeds for newsfacts and then identifying “the most important” news from around the world.

i'd be more interested in the "unbiased" part, because there is no such thing as having no bias. bias is everywhere and usually people or sources claiming to have no biases just don't know about theirs or actively try to hide them.