Apple‘s Reminders app. Unfortunately, the app is not mature at all. The text (date) recognition, like "4pm shopping", should in its current state just be removed. I honestly don't know though if it's intentional, to create a place for companies like Todoist in the App Store. If the text recognition and user interface in Apple's Reminder app would be better, I wouldn't use Todoist anymore.
Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
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#992Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found the Surface Book had a wonderful premium feel; I went into the shop with a list of specs in mind, and Microsoft was the last manufacturer I'd imagine going with, but it's a powerful machine and also just a beautiful object. Metal case, relatively subtle/classy logo, absolutely beautiful screen, nothing else was compromised for the sake of touch, clean baseline first-party OS. If you really want a premium feel…
I wanted to like the surface hardware because it kind of seems to run Linux and it is portable. According to 'the internet' that is. I tried different products, all with Windows only before trying Linux (which never happened) and found them surprisingly bad overall compared to Lenovo or Apple. Either all of them were bad luck factory mistakes or some people here have rosy MS glasses on. First off, The support was hor…
I've had 2 surface books so far and one surface tablet and never had these problems. I did however break the screen of my surface tablet, but I dropped it off the roof of my car after forgetting it was up there.
I use one of my laptops for my business and code on it, albeit on windows, but I've never had freezing or crashing. Never had to deal with support so can't say much about that experience.
It seems you've just gotten super unlucky with MS products. I'd definitely stick to Apple in your case. It seems someone may have cursed you.
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#993Dynamic Relational: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66385/dynamic-database-s... Unlike the NoSql movement, it embraces SQL and many RDBMS conventions to reduce the learning curve. It only removes or changes RDBMS features that get in the way of dynamism, but keeps the baby in the bathwater. And it allows incremental tightening of constraints/types to go from prototype to production. I'd love such a tool for proto…
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#994In-person social organizations. Social isolation is probably the biggest cause of unhappiness in advanced countries. Having a strong social network has lots of advantages including providing better romantic and career opportunities, as well as improving physical and psychological health. Humans have a long history of dishing out lots of money to be parts of strong communities too--country clubs and fraternities have…
Look up fraternal orders like Kiwanis , Rotary Club, Elks Lodge , Free Masons etc
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#995Noise pollution
Re: Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
#996Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found the Surface Book had a wonderful premium feel; I went into the shop with a list of specs in mind, and Microsoft was the last manufacturer I'd imagine going with, but it's a powerful machine and also just a beautiful object. Metal case, relatively subtle/classy logo, absolutely beautiful screen, nothing else was compromised for the sake of touch, clean baseline first-party OS. If you really want a premium feel…
Does it run Linux properly? googling Answer seems to be maybe: https://www.most-useful.com/ubuntu-20-04-linux-on-surface-pr... https://old.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/top/?sort=top&t=year TBH I hadn't really considered Surface's before due to them being Microsoft devices.
You probably need a special Kernal. I got it running with Manjaro. I ditched that, and went back to Windows due to it not having a suitable writing app like OneNote. I found a few apps, but they weren't very good, and the pen had input lag. Also ran into issues with the OSK not showing at the right times.
These limitations seem small, but are enough to degrade the experience.
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#997Better UI's for navigating browsing history. The current approach is 10-20 open tabs, self-categorized bookmarks, and a history feature that lacks full-text search of content.
I had to go as far as create a chrome extension that helps with managing 10000 bookmarks, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-manager-p... feel free to try it out, maybe it helps
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#998With the rise of video based meetings, I'm surprised more products around video first dating haven't appeared. It seems to solve several issues with apps like Tinder / Bumble etc. I guess a negative is that it's more nerve-wracking to video-date complete strangers, and to ensure it doesn't go the way of chatroulette. Over quarantine I started something in this space [1], but I thought some of the larger dating compan…
Can you make a version for my audience too? https://speedfriending.at/ at each of our events we get 100 people, it's something people care a lot about, we are the 2nd biggest meetup group in vienna https://www.meetup.com/speed-friending-events
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#999A Decentralized Government.
Let's do it step by step, first let's get rid of all the dictators, there are still a few roaming around
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#1000A truly free and open internet mesh network. We are so dependent on big telecom conglomerates as an ISP that run the last mile for the internet backbone. Wireless technology is simple and ubiquitous. I surprised we haven't come up with an ingenious way to connect all of our mobile and wifi hotspots together yet.
I had an idea, while thinking of a novel idea about how a people could challenge a fascist regime if one rose to power in the USA, You could disrupt communications, then create your own network using small drones with mesh nets that are the size of a dragon fly or something. They would need to be easy to build, fly, program, and use, and have good range for the mesh net. Then you could send out thousands which could…
I think it could be even simpler. Mobile phones are everywhere. You just need a mass of them to connect by some mesh app. For instance Firechat can be setup quickly. Perhaps integrate that with your drone idea.