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by jen729w 6y ago
This looks cool, there's a bunch of ideas here that are similar to scribbled notes on my wall! I really like the idea of 'everything related to one task in one place'. What I'm planning on doing with the app I'm (tr
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by jen729w 6y ago
Would you mind if I (eventually) put this up on the site? This is gold. Happy to link it back to this comment or any other profile you send my way.
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by jen729w 6y ago
> For example, Finance.Taxes to FN.TX. I've tried this (in the context of multiple projects [0]). Believe me, I've tried everything! The reason the JD site is the way it is is that I've been doing this myself for a decade
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by jen729w 6y ago
Indeed -- and this is why, really, we all want our pet thing to be up here on the front page at some point. Feedback from this audience is truly invaluable... ...sometimes. ;-)
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by jen729w 6y ago
I know the site well! Not consciously, but I guess that’s the sort of look I was going for. Plus, frankly, it’s all I’m capable of! Ha ha. I’ll say that Tailwind CSS is a godsend for someone like me. Being able to semantically describe wh
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by jen729w 6y ago
I needed to hear that, thank you. <3
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by jen729w 6y ago
Yep! https://play.johnnydecimal.com/johnny.decimal/projects This is actually what I’m running at work now. Over Xmas when I get some time an edited/updated version of this will become a page on the main site, it’s
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) I don't find tags useful for many of the same reasons that I invented this system. What's the tag for the payroll schedule? Is it 'Payroll'? 'Finance'? Something els
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Yep, this can be an issue. See my sibling comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25412455
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Yep, and the numbers tie things together across disparate systems, e.g. your file system and your to-do system. So I have a project, `12.34 Whatever`, and it has some files in the file system. I
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Thanks! I put a lot of work in to it and I'm no designer let me tell you. FWIW it's running on Gatsby. SHOCK HORROR JAVASCRIPT. ;-) Helps a lot that it's very light on images.
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Yep, a friend of mine named it in 'honour' of Dewey Decimal. Kinda genius, which I can say because that wasn't my idea. :-) But yeah had no idea he was a terrible human, that'
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Symlinks can work, and I've used them. My advice to people is usually, though, that your brain will sort it out for you. And it really does. The canonical example is "home insurance&quo
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) This is a real example from a past life, and really works when you're shouting across an office or talking down the phone. The longer original, edited down for brevity, went something like:
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) Yep, search is great in Google-world or on your Mac. But try it at work where everything is in disparate SharePoints if you're lucky . > Hence, the idea of using manual labels to classif
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by jen729w 6y ago
(I'm the eponymous 'Johnny'.) This. One hundred times this. Those here arguing that things can, in fact, be found, or saying that my claim that "nobody can find anything any more" is absurd, clearly haven't wor
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by jen729w 6y ago
Well, this was bound to happen one day. This is my site. I guess I’ll read the comments here then go take a bath with a bottle of gin. :-) Edit: yep. As suspected. Let me just say this, if I may: 1. You don’t have to like every idea, but pl
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by jen729w 6y ago
That “similar number of people” still die despite the enormous amount of work that goes in to road death reduction! We are doing things, and we are affecting the road toll. A quick look at Australia shows that from the worst years, 1970
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by jen729w 6y ago
I hire one when I need one, but living a ten minute walk from my city centre is more transformative to me than the car would be. :-)
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by jen729w 6y ago
Perhaps not the greatest example given that it’s killed one-point-six million people to date. That’s an awful lot of people, and if you don’t think that’s a terrible thing then I don’t know how you sleep at night.
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by jen729w 6y ago
Indeed — Brit-turned-Aussie here — the drivers here are absolutely atrocious. I often say that Brits can be pretty rude until they get behind the wheel, whereupon they turn in to gracious, giving angels. Australians directly mirror this: in
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by jen729w 6y ago
I’ve been doing the same with the spammers that ask me if they can send me an SEO report or “generate content for my site” for which I’ll be paid. I respond, eagerly, in the positive. And not one of them has yet responded. What’s the point?
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by jen729w 6y ago
It’s this sort of thing that makes me really appreciate my cell-connected personal iPad, with keyboard cover. It’s a “personal laptop” in 50% of the volume that I can ~always have with me.
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by jen729w 6y ago
> I really wonder how these products sell. Because they’re currently better than nothing. My HomePod works 90% of the time. I can create specific scenes for the things she can’t quite figure out. Being able to walk in to the kitchen and
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by jen729w 6y ago
Siri (HomePod) was getting confused with my “turn everything off” incantation, so I’ve changed the name of the ‘scene’ and now when we leave the house we instruct her to “PUT THAT COFFEE DOWN”. Because coffee is for closers.
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by jen729w 6y ago
Yeah. Email makes me sad. I've brought a tiny bit of sanity to my Outlook inbox [0] by using many, many rules. The goal is to move an email out of my Inbox and to a folder of my choosing on receipt. I hit about 80%. (And every week o
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by jen729w 6y ago
> Why is Windows a nightmare? This just happened. (It’s the reason I’m on HN rather than working right now.) - I get up at 5am to do some early work. - Work laptop (Win10) is still connected to the VPN from yesterday. Cool. - Try to conn
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by jen729w 6y ago
Tangential, but I think it’s funny so whatever. Some smart-arse at work came up with this one: “Security: we put the ‘no’ in ‘innovation’.”
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by jen729w 6y ago
Hypothesis: we're in the net rather than just being on the net. That gives us access to a wider range of material. For example, I found Nightline [0] on itch.io earlier today. I'd never even heard of itch.io but I follow a coo
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by jen729w 6y ago
Soulver does that, from memory, and has an Alfred integration. Agreed, useful.

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