Ask HN: Utilities you would like to see resurrected?

4 points by _color 14y ago ↗ HN

I'm looking for an interesting open source project this summer, and John Grubber's utility Dragon Drop has inspired me. I want to create an intuitive and useful app, but still need inspiration.<p>Is there any utility that you used to have, yet was discontinued, that you still miss to this day? Hopefully something small and lightweight.

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pestaa 14y ago ↗

Google Notebook.

Google just pushed Docs too hard, but I don't need all that functionality. I want performance, a few basic formatting options and instant saving.

I don't use no stinking sharing either.

LarryMade 14y ago ↗

- Quanta IDE very web developer friendly - nor or less died with KDE 3.5 - Kooka scanner tool (which incorporated OCR, there is a quite a lack of Linux OCR apps.)