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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)

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242 points simonebrunozzi | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 19:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mt_ ◴[11 Dec 25 20:16 UTC] No.46236564[source]▶
I envy people that stick for a system like this for so long. Because when you master it, it is when you can build a system around it. For this piece, i suggest the author to build his own frontend app, that mimics this system but with a better, clean UI interface. Hell, he can just vibe code it in under a hour these days and at the end leverage the ergonomics of a clean interface, and of course implement integrations that the app will enables, to build systems around it, to become even more productive.
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1. jaredsohn ◴[11 Dec 25 20:26 UTC] No.46236668[source]▶
I started tracking everything I ate three years ago and even posted about it via this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552288

I updated it substantially via AI this summer (includes micros, compounds, and various other stats and a webpage with charts now) and then I started making diet changes based on these new features. Is really neat to compare data from before and after those changes. And like you suggested, I keep making improvements to the system and to myself and it becomes really satisfying / motivational.

Is still driven by simple text files.