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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.613s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. _andrei_ ◴[28 Apr 23 14:39 UTC] No.35741801[source]▶
The most useful thing I built for myself is my workflow. Being both on the ASD and ADHD spectrums, I intuitively knew I need systems, and started working on them, long before I was diagnosed and got treatment.

One of my dearest parts of my system is the knowledge, task, and time management part. There's many things to improve, but I'm really happy to where I got.

TLDR; custom org/markdown/hyperlists-inspired document syntax powered by tree-sitter, go library for accessing the data, command line utility with interactive task manager (built in with a custom React-like component-based TUI framework), Neovim plugins and integrations.

This short video explains more than I can in a short time: https://gist.ro/slang.mp4

Extra - Thank you Org mode: I do my work in a terminal emulator, so (obviously) my editor is Neovim. Two years ago I allocated a few weeks to learn Emacs and to review Org mode, I was hooked on so many concepts, and I loved it. Didn't like Emacs through, it's just too slow for me, and Elisp felt very meh if not yuck. There's quite a few things that I liked so much while testing Org mode, and that I tried to port.