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Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by higgins »

replwoacause wrote: post #89
higgins wrote: post #6

I use followupthen for fast email reminders. Clears the inbox and perfect for inbox zero! https://www.followupthen.com/

Interesting. This just seems like a "snooze" service which I thought most providers had by now. Do you have any concerns around privacy or exposing sensitive data to a third-party?

I don’t use it with any sensitive data though that is a recipe for error.

That being said, emails are stored encrypted (with their keys) and deleted in time. https://help.followupthen.com/knowledge-base/privacy/

I love being able to bcc them to book the “snooze” if all email providers had this interface instead of a separate button only exposed in the web client (gmail), i’d probably switch

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by kyawzazaw »

ashnehete wrote: post #24

CyberChef ( https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ ) has almost everything I need. It is described as "The Cyber Swiss Army Knife".

If you ever want an offline app for Mac and don't want to copy/paste anything online: https://devutils.app/

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by deckard1 »

xigoi wrote: post #65

I'm missing a collaborative whiteboard with the following features: * Infinite scroll * Undo/redo * Pasting images * LaTeX math input

Excalidraw.com

Doesn't have math input yet but there is a draft PR up for that, so might be there soon.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by kyawzazaw »

newbamboo wrote: post #42

Search. Google’s monopoly and political and legislative corruption are the only things going for it. The world deserves a less evil search engine, ideally one that works like google did about 15 years ago.

neeva

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by knoebber »

pizza wrote: post #52

first-class citizen vim splits in the browser. so annoying to have to scroll between the top part of a webpage and the bottom part of a webpage to mentally memcpy info into a form in the year of our lord 2022. i think my ideal browser would have a ui like tmux actually if we could go back to using web technologies to build browsers (reminiscent of xul) maybe we should try to build browsers using wasm - then everyone…

Have you tried qutebrowser?

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by g8oz »

Kinrany wrote: post #62
pizza wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wonder if dockerized cocalc + sageworksheets / jupyter lab is what you're looking for

Regular Jupyter notebooks are missing two important things: 1. Sheets hide formulas most of the time 2. Formulas in sheets are reactive, updating one cell immediately updates all the cells that depend on the first

Observablehq notebooks are reactive but JS only. Jupyter is becoming a standard but the lack of a DAG for reactivity and the difficulty in version controlling them are serious limitations.

Re: Ask HN: What kind of online tools are you using, missing or can be improved?

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Post by eternityforest »

Online tools like that are best improved by making them into VS code plugins. To compare text outside of Git I open Meld and paste it in.

Timestamp conversion? SwissKnife in VS code. Make a UUID? Command pallete has me covered!

The all-in-one online tools like CyberChef linked below are the most interesting, that way you don't have to have to dig around for different ones. But simple utils should not be hard to get to or need internet when VS code has more convenient options.

Online tools are great for casual users who don't have VS code or want it though.

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