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   Will AGI make humans obsolete?(twitter.com)

   1 points by dela3499 3y ago|0 comments
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   Extending your creative toolkit: the combination calculator(carlosd.ghost.io)

   1 points by dela3499 9y ago|0 comments
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   Let's become nomadic scholars(scholartravelnetwork.carrd.co)

   2 points by dela3499 9y ago|0 comments
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   by dela3499 9y ago

   Thanks for sharing. Are thoughtwriter or tersewriter useful in that workflow?
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   by dela3499 9y ago

   For the blogging app, the goal is really to encourage daily thinking and writing, not necessarily to create the best source of deep content. I do think many long articles should actually be short articles, though. You can say a lot in 450 w
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   by dela3499 9y ago

   I was surprised people found the prompts so useful, so I'm focusing more on that next. I think I'll create a dedicated site with a wide variety of prompts next. Should be fun!
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   by dela3499 9y ago

   Ha! I'll keep Slack in mind. Let me know if you come across any prompts you'd like to add.
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   Ask HN: Should my SaaS be pay-per-day?

   4 points by dela3499 9y ago|4 comments
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   by dela3499 9y ago

   Ha! That's an admirably simple solution. Not quite a full replacement, but it gets you surprisingly far. :)
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Trying is necessary but not sufficient. Many don't try, though, so I think it's a simple, useful recommendation.
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Thanks for sharing. Perhaps it's better to make the free version have more (all?) the features, and then charge for having more than one drawing. It's a bit hard to commit to paying for a service before I've been able to use
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    It's a bit like a rubber-duck debugger. You open it up, describe your problem, think about things for a while. You might even pretend to interview yourself, say. The things you write will be messy, and probably not worth keeping. So, t
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    I've written custom webapps for the following: 1. Brainstorming/thinking - https://thoughtwriter.org (which I just launched) 2. Remembering stuff (books, shopping, project ideas) - list limited to just 100 items (so it
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    For freeform stuff (usually website mockups), I'll usually just grab a piece of paper or use Inkscape. Inkscape is probably a decent tool for thinking (at least if you're already familiar with it), since you can zoom in and out on
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    With tersewriter, I'm excited by the idea of creating a platform between Twitter and Medium. It'd have a 300 word minimum and a 450-word maximum. That way, every post is substantial, but focused on just one idea. My main motivat
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Ha! I'm totally on board, so you're welcome to share all the thoughts you want about any of the tools. I'd originally developed them all as one app, then split them apart. (There are 6 and counting! Mockups are all on Twitter
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Do you use it for thinking, or for more polished work? When I write, I'm just brainstorming usually, and it's pretty messy.(e.g. "What do I want to do today? Hmm. I'm not sure. What are the three issues on my mind? ...&q
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    I'll be releasing it in a day or two. :)
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Thanks! Glad you like it. That app is my next priority, and it should be released in a day or two. I'm pretty excited about it, actually. It's a list that can have 100 items max, so you never get overwhelmed by the things you save
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Yeah, I often think about how Elon Musk was once asked about innovation, and he said, 'Just try. Seriously... did you try yesterday? Did you try today?' It'd be great to help people just try to make some progress.
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Thanks for sharing specific use cases. A couple notes: 1. I use this for thinking, not really for writing publicly. I actually made a variant of this tool for writing short blog posts. Here's the prototype - https://carlosd
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Thanks. Yep, it persists to LocalStorage. It's just one whiteboard for now. I had multiple before, which meant I didn't have to clear them as often, but it actually gets harder to clear them the longer you wait. (I'd forget w
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Yep, they're writing prompts, and they could be made modifiable. I figured I'd just try to make a good set of fixed prompts to start off. Do you have some ideas on how you'd use the prompts if you could modify them?
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Thanks for the link. Any favorite prompts that help you think?
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Definitely! It's started to annoy me too. I should be able to fix it tomorrow.
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    True enough. It was the best metaphor I could come up with. Maybe scratchpaper? (But you throw away scratchpaper. In this app, you erase everything when you're done, which is more like a whiteboard.)
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    by dela3499 9y ago

    Howdy, I'm Carlos. I made Thoughtwriter to avoid losing all my best ideas in long notes (I have 2000 notes in Evernote, many of which are more than a thousand words long.) I've been using Thoughtwriter for the past year in various
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    Show HN: Thoughtwriter – a digital whiteboard for your thoughts(thoughtwriter.org)

    99 points by dela3499 9y ago|58 comments