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notes
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My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
I've been doing something similar for ~20 years at: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
- Running `notes` will open this month's notes for YYYY_MM.txt
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What is your approach to quick note taking during development?
I use a very command line focused approach with https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
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Keep a Knowledge Log
Since about 2001 I used YYYY-MM.txt plain text files and have a shell script to help create notes in the most friendly way I could think of from the command line at https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
Totally works fine for a knowledge log when you're streaming high level details. I still use it today.
But when you want to really go all-in with in-depth notes it's tricky because in 1 month's time if you're hardcore deep in the woods of learning, applying and using something you're going to end up with hundreds of concepts from an assorted set of tools and it kind of stinks to have all of that info sitting in 1 file. Think about using something like Kubernetes. That's really Kubernetes, Kustomize / Helm, EKS, various cloud hosting details (networking, etc.), Terraform and ton of super useful commands / context. Details you for sure want recorded for later.
For this type of info I've been building up a knowledge base with https://obsidian.md/. It's really nice and I highly recommend it. It's been working well for keeping things reasonably categorized without wasting a lot of time on the details around keeping links and tags up to date. It also has Vim mode that's good enough where day to day writing feels natural.
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Show HN: Then – Understand how you spend your time and what influences your mood
Did you end up automating the entries?
For example, I have a command line note taking script at https://github.com/nickjj/notes.
It creates a YYYY-MM-DD.txt file and doesn't include time stamps but it would be a 1 line change to make each entry get timestamped. I didn't do that because personally I'm more interested in monthly notes not per minute.
But I do think removing the barrier of creating entries is an important step with jotting things down, this way you can focus on what you want to write and not the boilerplate.
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
A whole bunch of little things, mainly command line tools.
Most of them are open source and also have extensive documentation and a screencast video going over them.
In no specific order:
- https://github.com/nickjj/notes
- https://github.com/nickjj/invoice
- https://github.com/nickjj/wait-until
And a few recent little scripts to solve specific things:
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-ffmpeg-to-get-an-mp3s-d...
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-shell-script-to-keep-a-bunc...
- https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/bash-aliases-to-prepare-recor...
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Show HN: Note, my simple command line note taking app
Along similar lines, nickjj also has a similar (but bash) notes script at:
https://github.com/nickjj/notes
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Ask HN: What are you surprised isn’t being worked on more?
While I don't use it personally there's: https://obsidian.md/
It's cross platform and works offline. You write markdown and it produces a visual graph of your data. It supports interlinking notes, tags and images too.
Plain text notes[0] work best for me but I'd probably use Obsidian if I wanted to see things visually. When I tried it out briefly it was really solid.
[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
shpotify
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Ask HN: What is the most interesting software you wrote in a few days?
Shpotify is a shell script that allows you to control Spotify from the command line: https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify
The first version of it I wrote in a couple of hours.
And then it went on to be quite popular and has lived a life of its own.
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Spotify has shut down libspotify
This is only peripherally related, but if you were using libspotify to work on a a command line client, I have an alternative approach. Shpotify offers command line control of the Spotify app on Macs: https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify
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Is there any good video player except VLC, IINA, and QuickTime?
I was expecting it to work like Spotify terminal control shpotify
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
A long time ago, before Spotify had support for multiple devices where one could act as a remote and control the other, I wrote a tool called Shpotify: https://github.com/hnarayanan/shpotify . It is a simple Bash/AppleScript.
The primary usecase for me was to SSH tunnel into a media centre Mac in my living room and control music on Spotify. I released it on GitHub and it has grown a lot in popularity amongst people who like to do a lot of their computing in the shell.
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Spotify global hotkey
Was searching on how to enable global spotify hotkey, came across this script, check the readme for install instructions. But you can only use it via terminal commands.
What are some alternatives?
neatroff - Neatroff troff clone
sysbox - sysadmin/scripting utilities, distributed as a single binary
ping-heatmap - A tool for displaying subsecond offset heatmaps of ICMP ping latency
shpotify - A command-line interface to Spotify
pdftilecut - pdftilecut lets you sub-divide a PDF page(s) into smaller pages so you can print them on small form printers.
raspotify - A Spotify Connect client that mostly Just Works™
dockly - Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services
streamlit - Streamlit — A faster way to build and share data apps.
wireguird - wireguard gtk gui for linux
ZXing - ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android
linux-surface - Linux Kernel for Surface Devices
los-opinionated-git-tools - A collection of Very Opinionated Git tools and aliases to aid my Git workflow. Will these aid yours?