Ask HN: Which software you use has the best user experience for you?

#1

Post by alexsexotic » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 10:23 PM UTC

Could be an App, Website or a script.

Re: Ask HN: Which software you use has the best user experience for you?

#2

Post by forgotmypw17 » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 10:27 PM UTC

My own blogging/braindump platform, since I designed it for myself. I enjoy of working on it simultaneously with using it. I also use it for planning its own development.

I like using Word 97 for writing because of how fast it is, and how little it gets in my way. (I turned off Clippy, as much as I like him.)

Hacker News is very nice, too.

And, of course, the GNU/POSIX environment as a whole and command line in general.

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#3

Post by KKPMW » Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 10:31 PM UTC

For me - multimarkdown[0], as an alternative to pandoc.

Multimarkdown syntax definition manages to be conservative with respect to original markdown and at the same time provide several needed updates, like image attributes, references within document, footnotes, complex tables, etc. All done in a style that fits original markdown quite naturally.

The program itself does everything well - reads from stdin or file, prints to stdout, very fast, reliable, doesn't have a hundred flags.

[0]: https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown-6

Re: Ask HN: Which software you use has the best user experience for you?

#4

Post by cblconfederate » Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 10:33 AM UTC

vim

The best user experience is when i never feel like the app 'gets in the way' or 'slows me down'. Everything mobile or built with javascript (damn spinners!) fails in that.

Re: Ask HN: Which software you use has the best user experience for you?

#5

Post by aliosia » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 9:23 AM UTC

https://draw.io

https://www.powerthesaurus.org

Re: Ask HN: Which software you use has the best user experience for you?

#6

Post by forgotmypw17 » Tue, Oct 20, 2020, 6:23 PM UTC

cblconfederate wrote: post #4

vim The best user experience is when i never feel like the app 'gets in the way' or 'slows me down'. Everything mobile or built with javascript (damn spinners!) fails in that.

I share your opinion wrt javascript, and would be curious what you think about my js app.

If you want to spend a few minutes with it, you can find the link in my profile... If you have feedback, there's a Write form on the page you can use.