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 pageman » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:24 PM UTC

rjurney wrote: post #6

PBWorks. I find PBWiki much more effective when collaborating on documents than google apps or Trac. Its actually a joy to use, and I can't say that about many apps.

I have to agree with this one. Most of what happens in my class are now in PbWorks!

http://itethic.pbwiki.com http://sysanal.pbwiki.com http://vertsol.pbwiki.com

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

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Post by Herring » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:28 PM UTC

teej wrote: post #4

Rescue Time. It's hard to cheat, it "just works", and it's dangerously good at picking out my unproductive spurts.

Anyone else find that it needs a lot of micromanaging?

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

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Post by middayc » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:37 PM UTC

www.qwikitodo.com

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

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Post by adrianwaj » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:38 PM UTC

Not an app, but buy a larger screen, or add a second if you don't. Keep them at head level.

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

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Post by dylanmcd » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:48 PM UTC

teej wrote: post #56

dylanmcd wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I fail how to see how using HTML and Javascript keep something from being an application. To be an application it has to run on the desktop, and not the browser?

It's about level of interactivity, responsiveness, and robustness. Shiny web front-ends to a relational database just don't compete on the same level as desktop workhorses. Mint, Gmail, and Freshbooks are nice web "applications", but their innovation is in solving simple problems with incredible interfaces. The innovation in Textmate, and Photoshop is that they enable a high amount of manipulation and automation that…

To be an application, you certainly don't need to meet the levels of interactivity, responsiveness, or robustness as Textmate or Photoshop. Maybe to you that's what an application is, but under a more standard definition all a piece of software needs to do to be considered an application is to interact with a user to do a specific task. It has nothing to do with value judgements. A crappy cgi guestbook is technically a web application. It doesn't matter that it's slow and only does one thing.

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

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Post by dangrover » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:48 PM UTC

ZenDesk is awesome. If I didn't have it, I'd probably have to hire someone to handle support for me. But now I can handle more requests and satisfy more customers than I normally would be able to with just an email account

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

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 4:50 PM UTC

ryanvm wrote: post #65

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…

Oh brother - what a circle jerk

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

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Post by Mintz » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 5:00 PM UTC

xsc wrote: post #2

Google Calendar. Saves me from calling my fiancée at work to see what we have going on.

I can't even remember how I managed my life before Google Calendar. Texting reminders to myself, settings tasks that need to be checked off, having a simple interface to see how my week/month is laid out... it's a lifesaver.

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

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Post by Raisin » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 5:22 PM UTC

http://doihavetokickyourbutt.com/ Stops me from zoning out on the web and get back to work.

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

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Post by codemechanic » Thu, Jun 04, 2009, 5:27 PM UTC

GavinB wrote: post #34

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?

Try Tonido Workspace. It has horizontal information schema and nesting feature u are looking for.