Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#1

Post by ClintonWu » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:16 PM UTC

Could be in the traditional sense (iGoogle, Netvibes, or other portal) or non-traditional sense (my e-mail or Flipboard or Facebook/Twitter is my start page) though doubt the traditional sense is relevant to HN.

Inspired by: http://clintonwu.com/post/10445425917/death-of-the-personal-start-page

Re: Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#2

Post by jeffool » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:21 PM UTC

I'm old-fashioned; Google News.

Re: Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#3

Post by jfb » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:35 PM UTC

I need randomness in my life:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Re: Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#4

Post by dgunn » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:37 PM UTC

My current start page is google with instant on. But, interestingly, it used to be mint.com. I became very addicted to mint for a period of about 3 months. After that initial phase, I never used it again. Maybe I burnt myself out.

Re: Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#5

Post by gyardley » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:38 PM UTC

These days, my github account.

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#6

Post by dgunn » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:42 PM UTC

jfb wrote: post #3

I need randomness in my life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

I would do this if I could subscribe to particular categories. Special:Random is just too random for me. It rarely hits something that I would actually read. A subscription modle like stumbleupon would work well.

Re: Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#7

Post by jfb » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 6:19 PM UTC

dgunn wrote: post #6

jfb wrote: post #3

I need randomness in my life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

I would do this if I could subscribe to particular categories. Special:Random is just too random for me. It rarely hits something that I would actually read. A subscription modle like stumbleupon would work well.

A problem here is that I have no particular problem skipping "Lymania (named for Lyman Bradford Smith, American botanist)[1] is a genus of the botanical family Bromeliaceae, subfamily Bromelioideae.", and sometimes you get diverted off into weird little Wikialleys that are fun/enlightening.

Not every time I open a browser tab, for instance, do I want to get sucked into e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index

Re: Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#8

Post by burntflowers » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 7:33 PM UTC

Goosh, the unofficial Google shell

http://goosh.org/

Re: Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#9

Post by trafficlight » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 8:16 PM UTC

burntflowers wrote: post #8

Goosh, the unofficial Google shell http://goosh.org/

That's pretty cool. I'll have to start using it.

Re: Ask HN: What is Your Personal Start Page?

#10

Post by bazookaBen » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 8:11 AM UTC

burntflowers wrote: post #8

Goosh, the unofficial Google shell http://goosh.org/

thx for the link, it's so awesome