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Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

21 points by westiseast 14y ago

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.

houshuang 14y ago
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 http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:screenshots
- ankitml 14y ago
  This is supercool. You mind sharing the system?
  - houshuang 14y ago
    It's all open source (although a bitch to install - help or ideas appreciate): http://github.com/houshuang/folders2web http://github.com/houshuang/folders2web
swanson 14y ago
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/ http://www.queuerunner.com/ https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner 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.
- deleted 14y ago
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- timtamboy63 14y ago
  Awesome, any chance you can sare the APIs you used?
  - swanson 14y ago
    Sure - it uses the TraktTv API (http://trakt.tv/api-docs 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/domain/trakt_tv.rb https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner/blob/master/app/doma...
timtamboy63 14y ago
https://github.com/chintanparikh/TimeTracker https://github.com/chintanparikh/TimeTracker Tracks time spent inside each branch of a git repo
avalore 14y ago
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%20at%2016.09.59.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1965035/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-13%... https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1965035/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-13%20at%2016.10.58.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1965035/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-13%...
bjourne 14y ago
TfsHandy: https://github.com/bjourne/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.
tectonic 14y ago
Huginn is a system of event pipelines, kind of like Yahoo! Pipes, that I use to monitor events of interest in the world. http://cl.ly/image/1e3C053r1713 http://cl.ly/image/1e3C053r1713 http://cl.ly/image/3a3X1J401d0i http://cl.ly/image/3a3X1J401d0i
- betobetico 14y ago
  Can you share huginnn?
  - tectonic 14y ago
    I may open source it soon. Still trying to decide where to take it.
QuantumGuy 14y ago
Mind sharing your product with me, I would really like the chance to use it?

21 points by westiseast 14y ago

houshuang 14y ago

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 http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:screenshots

ankitml 14y ago
This is supercool. You mind sharing the system?
- houshuang 14y ago
  It's all open source (although a bitch to install - help or ideas appreciate): http://github.com/houshuang/folders2web http://github.com/houshuang/folders2web

swanson 14y ago

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/ http://www.queuerunner.com/ https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner 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.

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timtamboy63 14y ago
Awesome, any chance you can sare the APIs you used?
- swanson 14y ago
  Sure - it uses the TraktTv API (http://trakt.tv/api-docs 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/domain/trakt_tv.rb https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner/blob/master/app/doma...

timtamboy63 14y ago

https://github.com/chintanparikh/TimeTracker https://github.com/chintanparikh/TimeTracker Tracks time spent inside each branch of a git repo

avalore 14y ago

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%20at%2016.09.59.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1965035/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-13%... https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1965035/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-13%20at%2016.10.58.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1965035/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-13%...

bjourne 14y ago

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

tectonic 14y ago

Huginn is a system of event pipelines, kind of like Yahoo! Pipes, that I use to monitor events of interest in the world. http://cl.ly/image/1e3C053r1713 http://cl.ly/image/1e3C053r1713 http://cl.ly/image/3a3X1J401d0i http://cl.ly/image/3a3X1J401d0i

betobetico 14y ago
Can you share huginnn?
- tectonic 14y ago
  I may open source it soon. Still trying to decide where to take it.

QuantumGuy 14y ago

Mind sharing your product with me, I would really like the chance to use it?