Your top productivity web apps?

2 points by deyan 17y ago ↗ HN

Everyone keeps talking about web apps and how great they are. But I keep wondering: how many people use them, which web apps do they use, which ones have actually replaced their desktop alternative? How close are we to using productivity web apps in a mainstream fashion?

So, what do you think? What web apps do you use in your work routine? Which web apps have beaten their desktop alternatives?

Deyan

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niels_olson 17y ago ↗

Firefox + leechblock + http://nowdothis.com

jottit.com (better than Vim, OpenOffice, MovableType or Google Docs for compiling a set of notes about a subject over time. See http://nixcommands.jottit.com for an example)

http://tmedweb.tulane.edu, sort of a corner case, but I think there might be a lot of room for this sort home-spun productivity site for a few hundred people.

curiousgeorge 17y ago ↗

I use adsotrans.com for Chinese-English translation support. Collaborative translation support tools that don't screw around with grammar are great.

deyan 17y ago ↗

just wanted to add that in the past two days numerous announcements have been made about developments in the saas marketplace - especially from Microsoft with their new OS as well as browser-based office apps.