This is kinda lame, but I use it regularly because I cannot remember regular expression syntax: http://www.addedbytes.com/download/regular-expressions-cheat... The perl regex cheetsheet.
http://txt2re.com/ is one of the loves of my life.
Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?
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#112I'm curious why no one posted Etherpad. :-/
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#113Dropbox. 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?
I've been using VitaList, and the best part is that they have an API (JSON or XML). I made a small app that fills in the one thing Vitalist doesn't have, auto scheduling. I know there's calendars, but I like for some things to just show up in my todo at certain times of a month, or once every few months, or every other week and putting 'Do Laundry' on every friday in my calendar is no good. Calendars don't auto roll tasks onward too, and I might not do my laundry on Friday, but by fridays its time to do that in the upcoming few days, so a rolling todo is better. VitaList is iPhone friendly as well, so I get my todo to go.
Once I thought they had lost my data. Turns out if you change your password and log back in with your old password, you get some weird old data from I don't know when -- this resulted in my recreating about 75% of VitaList on a Friday, and then realized I had not lost my data and stopped. I'm keeping that code around, just in case they start charging for the API or something... :).
edit: one more thing, i find the view by context feature really handy - my contexts are "home" "work" "errands" - and being able to quickly group by that (or by project) is nice.
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#114webnotes.net (found out about it here, been using it since), google reader, vitalist, a personal IT wiki (using screwturn wiki), and the gtdish setup i got going on on my usb drive (truecrypted w/ backup script that creates a backup whenever im plugged in at home, maintains last 7 backups [each unique day, in case i backed up again on same day for whatever reason]), oh ...and jquery. i know, not all webapps, but those are the things that help me out the most.
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#115Ask the commenters in this thread: What webapps decrease your productivity? Preferably those we haven't yet heard of? I imagine the answers could turn out much more interesting :-)
Hacker News.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a developer of MantisBT, assuming that you've looked at it, mind giving me a summary of what Redmine has that MantisBT lacks?
No, I haven't. I've primary managed projects over the years using various amounts of trac, basecamp, ms project and even mediawiki. It's important to note, however, that it's not always about features, and my first impression of MantisBT looking at it now was mostly defined by usability, so much so that it's hard to tell what features it actually has. The interface on the demo is very noisy. Redmine behaves like a mo…
Thank you; you pretty much echo all of my current frustrations with Mantis. :P
MantisBT appears to behave like a no-frills, late-90s bug tracker.
To be fair, Mantis was started in 2000, and the look and feel hasn't really changed since then, mainly because of no good separation between code and presentation; templates are one of the always-on-the-roadmap-but-never-implemented features simply due to having a very small developer team.
Also, I would argue that from a neutral standpoint, but bug listings have a similar level of information density. However, Redmine does a good job of hiding all the unused filters, and an even better job of not looking visually overwhelming. Part of that has been improved recently with the new colorscheme for bug statuses, but there's still a lot that could be done.
Thanks again. :)
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#117Dropbox. 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?
Agreed. Using Dropbox and batch files to automate backups saves me a bunch of time.
Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?
#118Dropbox. 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?
I've been using Tracks (http://getontracks.org/) now for quite a while and am pretty happy with it. The downside is that you have to host it yourself or pay a small fee for a hosted version. But it's pretty powerful, implements the general GTD stuff without being slavish, and has some nice new features like recurring tasks and a iCal link. Not sure what your needs are for nesting exactly - most to-do apps allow categories/lists/projects, but most don't let you do true hierarchies.
Re: Ask HN: What Web apps increase your productivity?
#119Dropbox. 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?
I've been using Tracks ( http://getontracks.org/ ) now for quite a while and am pretty happy with it. The downside is that you have to host it yourself or pay a small fee for a hosted version. But it's pretty powerful, implements the general GTD stuff without being slavish, and has some nice new features like recurring tasks and a iCal link. Not sure what your needs are for nesting exactly - most to-do apps allow cat…
I used Tracks for to quite a while. I liked that you can host it on your own machine. I have a problem with some hosted site for my todo's. I too am looking for something that does hierarchies.
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#120DeskAway - kinda like basecamp, google docs , twitter apps like twhirl and tweetdeck