Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by westiseast » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 10:35 AM UTC

Care to share a screenshot and the 'killer feature' of any of your personal, self-built productivity tools? eg. I made my own calendar and money-tracker last year - there are no other users, it makes no money, I have no plans to make it public, but it holds my life together :)

http://i.imgur.com/h2keJDg.png GREAT BECAUSE... it tells me how much I'm going to get paid this month.

Absolutely no ulterior motive here (ie. I'm not canvassing opinions for a productivity app startup or anything), just interested.

Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by houshuang » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 12:35 PM UTC

Here are a bunch of screenshots of my self-built academic productivity system - focused on reading PDFs, taking notes, extracting to a wiki, working on notes etc. http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:screenshots

Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by swanson » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 3:12 PM UTC

More of an anti-productivity tool, but I built a small app to manage my TV watching queue because I wasn't happy with any of the 5+ alternatives I tried.

http://www.queuerunner.com/

https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner

The "Killer Feature" is really the lack of features: all the other tv episode tracking guides have a bunch of Social crap, cover art, or lacked a unified queue. All I wanted was a single queue of episodes that automatically gets added to when new stuff airs.

Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 3:46 PM UTC

swanson wrote: post #3

More of an anti-productivity tool, but I built a small app to manage my TV watching queue because I wasn't happy with any of the 5+ alternatives I tried. http://www.queuerunner.com/ https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner The "Killer Feature" is really the lack of features: all the other tv episode tracking guides have a bunch of Social crap, cover art, or lacked a unified queue. All I wanted was a single queue of ep…

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Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by timtamboy63 » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 8:39 PM UTC

https://github.com/chintanparikh/TimeTracker

Tracks time spent inside each branch of a git repo

Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by ankitml » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:14 AM UTC

houshuang wrote: post #2

Here are a bunch of screenshots of my self-built academic productivity system - focused on reading PDFs, taking notes, extracting to a wiki, working on notes etc. http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:screenshots

This is supercool. You mind sharing the system?

Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by avalore » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 4:16 PM UTC

A small web app, with Chrome extension, that I use for managing sets of checklists. The checklists are for jobs I don't do every day but still semi-regularly, so it's handy to make sure I'm not missing a step without visiting stackoverflow, etc.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1965035/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-13%...

Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by bjourne » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:09 PM UTC

TfsHandy: https://github.com/bjourne/TfsHandy

It syntax highlights some Team Foundation Server commands output and makes it more pleasant to work with in Powershell.

Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by timtamboy63 » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:19 PM UTC

swanson wrote: post #3

More of an anti-productivity tool, but I built a small app to manage my TV watching queue because I wasn't happy with any of the 5+ alternatives I tried. http://www.queuerunner.com/ https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner The "Killer Feature" is really the lack of features: all the other tv episode tracking guides have a bunch of Social crap, cover art, or lacked a unified queue. All I wanted was a single queue of ep…

Awesome, any chance you can sare the APIs you used?

Re: Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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Post by swanson » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:14 PM UTC

timtamboy63 wrote: post #9

swanson wrote: post #3

More of an anti-productivity tool, but I built a small app to manage my TV watching queue because I wasn't happy with any of the 5+ alternatives I tried. http://www.queuerunner.com/ https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner The "Killer Feature" is really the lack of features: all the other tv episode tracking guides have a bunch of Social crap, cover art, or lacked a unified queue. All I wanted was a single queue of ep…

Awesome, any chance you can sare the APIs you used?

Sure - it uses the TraktTv API (http://trakt.tv/api-docs) which I believe is based on the TheTVDB. I picked that one because it had JSON (TheTVDB uses XML and you have to request a key).

I run a cron job that polls the API once a day to check for new episodes.

Here's the code: https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner/blob/master/app/doma...