Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by nixy » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:33 PM UTC

I work a lot with different (human) languages in settings where i sometimes need to escape special characters in different web environments. That is why this Unicode converter tool often comes in handy:

http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/uniview/conversion.php

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by slackerIII » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:33 PM UTC

http://www.doitfuckingnow.com/

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by racerrick » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:34 PM UTC

feedus - got it installed in several applications so that all the hardcoded text can be changed by anyone in our organization.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by GavinB » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:35 PM UTC

Dropbox. I don't have to worry about backing up files, and I know if I screw things up I can revert to old versions. Not to mention, sharing files is as easy as dropping them into a folder.

I've been using BackPack for to-do lists, but it doesn't have the depth of features I need. Can anyone recommend a to-do list app with good nesting functionality?

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by racerrick » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:35 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #13

Hacker News. This is not a joke. I realize that hn is not a web app in the classic sense, but I get far more value from hn than any webapp. Let me explain... I learned long ago that increasing productivity was like "striking out the pitcher". You got small, easily measured, and much appreciated improvements. But the real improvements come in major shifts in thinking and processing. I once had a choice of 2 projects t…

I had the same initial reaction. Then I thought "well it's not an application".

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by carbon8 » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:40 PM UTC

Redmine. It's not perfect, but it resolves all of the shortcomings (IMHO, of course) in the other major project management / issue tracking apps.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by nailer » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:40 PM UTC

My wife swears by Dropbox for a way to fetch big files that everyone can use. She'd use Basecamp if her office hadn't paid for MS Project, which she hates.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by rjurney » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:42 PM UTC

9oliYQjP wrote: post #7

I'm going to adopt a liberal definition of web app here. The only web app that appears to increase my productivity is Twitter. But I use a desktop client to access the service. I use it for live-searching of programming problems I need to solve. Why is this so funny? Because I didn't comprehend Twitter at all, so much so that I originally joined only to leave my account languishing for months before actually beginnin…

Thanks for this link: http://www.freshbooks.com

This is really something I can use.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by feedus » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:43 PM UTC

Instapaper - browser plugin that sends things I want to "read later" to my Kindle.

Amazon Subscription Payments is about to get used on Feed.Us

Quickbooks online - used it solidly since 2001, though I hate it. (new design is really nice)

Basecamp is helpful (though I hate it)

Campfire would be great if the other guys I work with liked it.

Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?

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Post by feedus » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 2:45 PM UTC

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