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

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247 points simonebrunozzi | 3 comments | 11 Dec 25 19:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.622s | 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. swatcoder ◴[11 Dec 25 20:27 UTC] No.46236687[source]▶
- Essentially zero input or transactional latency

- Proven effective after 14 years of heavy use

- Celebrated by user

- Zero dependencies

- Maximally portable

- Outage-proof

- Compatible with all backup systems and most version control systems

Have you considered that stuff like this is already "more productive" for fluent users than almost any alternative could be?

Somewhere along the line, product people started to mistake following design trends and adding complexity for productivity, forgetting that delivering the right combination of fluency, stability, simiplicity are often the real road to maximizing it.

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2. rogerrogerr ◴[11 Dec 25 20:36 UTC] No.46236786[source]▶
> Celebrated by user

Oh I’m totally putting this in a performance review this year.

3. wkat4242 ◴[12 Dec 25 03:31 UTC] No.46240582[source]▶
The portability thing can't be stressed more. It took me ages to liberate my notes from onenote cloud when I moved over to obsidian. Which is of course exactly the point of Microsoft's.