Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

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by westiseast • 13 years ago

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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.

houshuang2• 13 years 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

ankitml• 13 years ago

This is supercool. You mind sharing the system?

houshuang2• 13 years ago

It's all open source (although a bitch to install - help or ideas appreciate): http://github.com/houshuang/folders2web

swanson2• 13 years 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/

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.

timtamboy632• 13 years ago

Awesome, any chance you can sare the APIs you used?

swanson2• 13 years ago

Sure - it uses the TraktTv API (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/doma...

timtamboy632• 13 years ago

https://github.com/chintanparikh/TimeTracker

Tracks time spent inside each branch of a git repo

avalore• 13 years 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%...

bjourne• 13 years ago

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.

tectonic2• 13 years 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/3a3X1J401d0i

betobetico• 13 years ago

Can you share huginnn?

tectonic2• 13 years ago

I may open source it soon. Still trying to decide where to take it.

QuantumGuy• 13 years ago

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

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