Show HN: your personal, self-built productivity tool

21 points by westiseast 13y ago ↗ HN

Care to share a screenshot and the 'killer feature' of any of your personal, self-built productivity tools? eg. I made my own calendar and money-tracker last year - there are no other users, it makes no money, I have no plans to make it public, but it holds my life together :)

http://i.imgur.com/h2keJDg.png GREAT BECAUSE... it tells me how much I'm going to get paid this month.

Absolutely no ulterior motive here (ie. I'm not canvassing opinions for a productivity app startup or anything), just interested.

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houshuang 13y ago ↗

Here are a bunch of screenshots of my self-built academic productivity system - focused on reading PDFs, taking notes, extracting to a wiki, working on notes etc. http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:screenshots

ankitml 13y ago ↗

This is supercool. You mind sharing the system?

houshuang 13y ago ↗

It's all open source (although a bitch to install - help or ideas appreciate): http://github.com/houshuang/folders2web

swanson 13y ago ↗

More of an anti-productivity tool, but I built a small app to manage my TV watching queue because I wasn't happy with any of the 5+ alternatives I tried.

http://www.queuerunner.com/

https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner

The "Killer Feature" is really the lack of features: all the other tv episode tracking guides have a bunch of Social crap, cover art, or lacked a unified queue. All I wanted was a single queue of episodes that automatically gets added to when new stuff airs.

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timtamboy63 13y ago ↗

Awesome, any chance you can sare the APIs you used?

swanson 13y ago ↗

Sure - it uses the TraktTv API (http://trakt.tv/api-docs) which I believe is based on the TheTVDB. I picked that one because it had JSON (TheTVDB uses XML and you have to request a key).

I run a cron job that polls the API once a day to check for new episodes.

Here's the code: https://github.com/swanson/queue-runner/blob/master/app/doma...

timtamboy63 13y ago ↗

https://github.com/chintanparikh/TimeTracker

Tracks time spent inside each branch of a git repo

avalore 13y ago ↗

A small web app, with Chrome extension, that I use for managing sets of checklists. The checklists are for jobs I don't do every day but still semi-regularly, so it's handy to make sure I'm not missing a step without visiting stackoverflow, etc.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1965035/Screen%20Shot%202013-02-13%...

bjourne 13y ago ↗

TfsHandy: https://github.com/bjourne/TfsHandy

It syntax highlights some Team Foundation Server commands output and makes it more pleasant to work with in Powershell.

tectonic 13y ago ↗

Huginn is a system of event pipelines, kind of like Yahoo! Pipes, that I use to monitor events of interest in the world.

http://cl.ly/image/1e3C053r1713

http://cl.ly/image/3a3X1J401d0i

betobetico 13y ago ↗

Can you share huginnn?

tectonic 13y ago ↗

I may open source it soon. Still trying to decide where to take it.

QuantumGuy 13y ago ↗

Mind sharing your product with me, I would really like the chance to use it?