Best Productivity & notes according to Hacker News

…both qwen 3.6 35b-a3b and qwen 3.8 27b on my Macbook Pro (M5 Pro, 48GB, 18/20). I use those with ollama and hermes (and Obsidian, to an extent) 3. Hermes Agent, Claude CLI and Claude in VS Code 4. No 5. Hermes Agent I use a carefully curated selection of agents for my professiona…
— gaoshan, 2026-11-04 · Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup? · source

…the one" for a long time, but I can't even explain what I expect from it, so the search is basically impossible. I used Obsidian for quite a while and ended up getting tired of it, I'm going to give Bear a try…
— marcellosso, 2026-11-03 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

I use Zettlr as a front end to Markdown notes. It's similar to Obsidian, but works better for me, since I do a fair amount of academic work right now.…
— bovermyer, 2026-11-03 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

I've been using Bear for a long time. I tried Obsidian to move off Bear, but it didn't last long. The Bear UX is just great and that's what's kept me around this long.…
— bherms, 2026-11-03 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

I use both Bear and Obsidian. I do some long-form writing in Bear but keep all of my structured notes and markdown in Obsidian. Obsidian has much better tooling and many more features, but Bear has a very pleasant experience for writing. It's very simple but if it's all you need…
— chrisfosterelli, 2026-11-03 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

Still there's something to the notion of people who prefer Academia to Industry. As much as I tend to agree with your broader points that it's a game and people love the prestige game and they now can pull levers to accelerate their winning in that Prestige game.. still they chos…
— redwood, 2026-11-04 · Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers · source

…ratch. When generic AI output became the problem, I came up with an in-place DPO approach that mined their actual messy Notion editing history, including highlights, strikethroughs and collaborative edits, to generate positive/negative preference pairs for few-shot prompting. No…
— prman_, 2026-11-02 · Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) · source

…fic culture, and the power of shared purpose to gloss over social differences. Even as a plot device, it feels like the notion that {solving material/energetic needs solves existential needs} feels of a piece with a very particular, commoditized, late-industrial type of social cl…
— alwa, 2026-10-31 · We won't "just hang out" · source

…Moxie talked about scope of choice and how the scope of choice changed to "do I want to carry a cell phone, or not?". A notion that Matthew's dream was to impose on the world a demand to carry a cell phone or a debit/credit card transaction on others, such a tax, to enjoy what he…
— jon128, 2026-10-31 · Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable · source

…es lived in saved (and unsaved) text files in Sublime Text. At some point I've tried using TiddlyWiki, bandwagoned onto Notion and Obsidian, and once even opened Microsoft OneNote. My brain doesn't work like that, the 5,715 unread emails in my inbox is proof of a losing battle. A…
— coffeethursday, 2026-10-31 · I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it · source

I've been using Syncthing + KeePass for a few no this now after leaving Bitwarden. I do find that I often get sync conflicts, though; I think it's because I will open Keepass on my computer, then on my phone while forgetting to close the one on the computer, but I'm not sure. any…
— einhard, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

I use both Restic and Syncthing. I have considered putting encrypted backups on a cloud blob storage, but my preference would be to set up an offsite backup at a relative's house.…
— viceconsole, 2026-10-16 · What I self-host · source

I'm puzzled that OP seems stumped on syncing keepass when they're already using syncthing. I've been using keepass+syncthing for years, and I've never had any issues.…
— seplox, 2026-10-15 · What I self-host · source

…b in git and it was always a pain to keep in sync, but switched back a couple of weeks ago with exactly the same setup, syncthing and KeepassDx also works suprisingly well. mostly i was missing power user features and especially ux for the browser plugin, namely you can't operate…
— jonny2811, 2026-10-10 · Bitwarden Dual License Model · source

…to type is a security nightmare and is not an option. Syncing does not exist and with the constant death and forking of Syncthing on Android, it became unusable to randomly find out my db hasn't synced for a week and now I have to reset everything with a new fork yet again. Bitwa…
— Arrowmaster, 2026-10-10 · Bitwarden Dual License Model · source

…ystemcrafters, joshblais, protesilaos, sacha chua, mickey peterson (and mastering emacs). God, I haven't even mentioned org-mode or magit (though magit is still a bit rough, I'm used to lazygit - in some ways using magit is making me understand some things about how git operates…
— wormius, 2026-10-29 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

I love emacs and have been using it daily for about 5 years now. Many people have mentioned magit and org mode. I just want to give another shout out to consult.el which is a wonderful way to grep and search through text. Happy birthday emacs!…
— lukehandcool, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

My biggest regret in life was that I was introduced to vim before emacs and got really comfortable with it. Did not realize that everything I was building in my vim configs to make it better was already default in emacs i.e dired, compile mode, magit, org mode, etc. If I wasn't a…
— lopotubez, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

About 10+ years ago I found a guide on Helm [0] and a guide on Org-mode [1] when I was just getting into Emacs. This helped me move on from using Spacemacs to making my own configuration. I no longer use Helm (I'm doing Vertico/Orderless/Consult), but I've stuck with Org-mode sin…
— cyrialize, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

I've used Emacs and org-mode for about half a decade now and I find it inescapable. I hate that I love it, and love that I hate it. Things like Neorg (which looks unmaintained) gave me hope to find another plaintext ecosystem that handles tasks and notes very well, but I haven't…
— xz18r, 2026-10-10 · I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again · source

…pen up another world for you. I've done both sides, and I don't recommend putting it off. Even just 10 minutes a day of anki + tae kim's grammar guide will help. Anyway, you're a curious fellow. FWIW, I'll be in Japan soon again (I visit frequently). If you really are that open,…
— ashkankiani, 2026-10-22 · Claude Duet · source

…age?" and BOOM ... I get an explanation. And then I can just randomly have it quiz me on stuff as sort of a "poor man's Anki" (don't worry, I still use actual Anki as well). To point 2... I've recently been doing some research in the area of neuromorphic computing. Now just to be…
— mindcrime, 2026-10-02 · AI Makes Me Sad · source

…into this kind of stuff over the summer. I haven't written it up yet, but I'll share some highlights below. I realized Anki was optimized for the opposite of the problems I actually had. Anki's optimized to minimize study time. It does this by maximizing difficulty. For me, this…
— andai, 2026-09-25 · Show HN: Make math automatic with Mathy · source

…that script, and make sentences with 10-20 words that I never used in sentences before. All the sentences are saved in Anki, where I have now around 7000 german sentences, 3000 in spanish. I also watch youtube videos with closed caption. The only thing this not taught me was spe…
— cuvert, 2026-09-20 · Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy · source

…il I tried to read a book that I felt like I was making real progress. Highlighting words in Kindle, exporting them to Anki, then feeding back my progress to my tutor was fiddly and not a good use of my time. Also practicing my speaking once a day wasn't enough. So I built an ap…
— nickreffitt, 2026-09-14 · Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) · source

Objectively? I use Libreoffice and I ... objectively... find it slightly less of a pain in the ass.…
— jrm4, 2026-10-25 · What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches us · source

…oys. It seems impossible to do anything even moderately complex with them. Especially form design. I've installed Linux+LibreOffice on a spare machine at work that I use occasionally, to keep from tearing my hair out. As much as I despise Microsoft, I admit that their Office suit…
— encom, 2026-10-24 · Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office · source

…. You’re reversing the order. It was not “I recommend this” but “If you’re gonna do it I can’t stop you”. > If I forked LibreOffice If all you are doing is cloning the repo in GitHub then sure, you aren’t competing. But LibreOffice is a great example because it is specifically a…
— dpark, 2026-10-17 · I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets · source

…- with tools for redlining, commenting, converting, and reviewing diffs. It's pretty fast, and doesn't rely on pandoc, LibreOffice, or any other external dependencies to be installed on the host system. In my tests it also lets agents get certain tasks done faster and more effic…
— artursapek, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: Revise CLI · source

…fer their office suite as Linux native apps, and they make it near impossible to use the Windows apps under Wine, I use LibreOffice. And it works really well. I can use it and exchange documents with people using Word without problem in the enormous majority of the cases. And the…
— sombragris, 2026-10-11 · Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications · source

…obo manually. I had another which would take the URL of the frontmost browser tab, download and convert it to EPUB with pandoc, then it’d reuse the same kepubify and rclone steps. That one doesn’t work that well nowadays, with all the websites getting harder to access programatic…
— latexr, 2026-11-04 · Kitty 0.50 · source

…manage the Markdown source in Git and Emacs. For typesetting—I cannot abide crappy word-processor output—I used to use Pandoc to generate LaTeX markup and run LuaLaTeX to produce PDFs. But that took several seconds. Now, I use Typst to go straight from Markdown to PDF files. It’…
— tmoertel, 2026-11-01 · Novellas with Groff · source

I use this all the time, especially for epub to pdf. Tried doing it with pandoc and the result was similar but less good. (I like it when the result is more good.) It's amazing how many formats they support. It's kind of strange that this isn't built into the computer, though. Wi…
— andai, 2026-11-01 · Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother · source

…intliminator [2] (which uses the Haartija CSS framework [3]) and have currently ended up using CopyAsMarkdown [4] (with Pandoc) and WebToEpub [5] [1] https://www.printfriendly.com/ [2] https://github.com/CSS-Tricks/The-Printliminator [3] https://github.com/vladocar/Hartija---CSS-…
— pidgeon_lover, 2026-10-26 · Websites Should Be Printable · source

…ocuments - with tools for redlining, commenting, converting, and reviewing diffs. It's pretty fast, and doesn't rely on pandoc, LibreOffice, or any other external dependencies to be installed on the host system. In my tests it also lets agents get certain tasks done faster and mo…
— artursapek, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: Revise CLI · source

…look at 2,000 companies a year, and meet just under a quarter of them, at some point they all start to blend together. Logseq came the closest, the daily journal clicked for me, but I wanted mobile, reliable sync, and a search that didn’t need the gentle touch of a crowbar. I lo…
— coffeethursday, 2026-10-31 · I take notes as a VC, and the app I built for it · source

…ies and rendering of tabular data, which meets all my admittedly modest needs. (if a true db is required, some ppl like logseq which has some feature overlap w obsidian but is db-driven)…
— chrisweekly, 2026-07-27 · Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS · source

I needed the "edit anywhere" capability, too, had a keen interest in logseq as a result, and now can't recommend Trilium more. https://triliumnotes.org/…
— ezst, 2026-07-14 · Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here · source

…lawnchair, as a few examples). Applications that follow this development model are hard to recommend. Despite enjoying logseq a lot it has stagnated for so long (and the mobile app is atrocious) that I ended up moving to obsidian. It was frustrating to see "new" versions get upd…
— ReluctantLaser, 2026-07-13 · Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here · source

I've been using Logseq DB (this new version, as a nightly, for a year) and it's a really great concept, way better than anything I tried for notes and organisation. You can apply tags to blocks, which make them a kind of thing (a project, an author, a quote, a thought). It is ver…
— wosk, 2026-07-13 · Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here · source

I’ve been using Raycast[0] to replace spotlight. Spotlight index kept randomly losing my /Applications dir, and like 90% of what I use spotlight for is Cmd + space > type in the name of the app I want to switch to/open. So it was a constant annoyance. They have some AI stuff that…
— jedbrooke, 2026-11-04 · Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines · source

The AI features arrived with the recent v2 release. Raycast originally became popular as a better Spotlight replacement. As you can see, the idea was never entirely original, since Apple and other apps already offered many of the same features. Raycast’s strengths are its extensi…
— azuanrb, 2026-09-24 · Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop · source

…extending itself. Actually making the OS something that actual activity happens on feels absolutely essential. Making a Raycast/Vicinae (the pretty great open source port) integral feels like it would go a long way towards this end, of offering a consistent way to expose & access…
— jauntywundrkind, 2026-09-24 · Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop · source

I use Raycast; very op…
— L4XB, 2026-09-15 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

I use Raycast and it’s much better than spotlight imo…
— ramgine, 2026-09-15 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

…doing Vertico/Orderless/Consult), but I've stuck with Org-mode since then. I sometimes venture out to other apps (like Joplin, Obsidian, Apple Notes, Apple Reminders, etc), but Org-mode just works best for me. I don't even use it's most advanced features. The most complicated th…
— cyrialize, 2026-10-28 · Emacs Turns 50 · source

…to figure out our home budget, savings and spending rates, etc. I don't want this data in the hands of AI companies. - Joplin note-taking app LLM integration for searching, creating, summarizing notes. This is my private notebook and I don't want it leaking. - Termux based phone…
— chr15m, 2026-10-12 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…ty and RSS feeds to see what I'm neglecting. - "Note to self" app and voice automation which transcribes and adds to my Joplin notebook on my laptop. - AI agent on my phone I can long-press power button and give spoken commands ("add milk to the shopping list"). Uses private home…
— chr15m, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

I use the free-tier Oracle server, but: Nextcloud. Minecraft server. I will probably move my Joplin and Wallabag hosting there soon, currently paying for both. I tried running a Valheim server there, but ran into bugs emulating it with FEX, unfortunately.…
— 0x262d, 2026-10-08 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…tainability is not an inherent good. If (hypothetically) every Evernote customer would be better off if they were using Joplin, keeping Evernote around would be a bug, not a feature. I don't think this is actually true, might it might be close.…
— rpdillon, 2026-07-10 · What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public · source

I use a locally hosted Wallabag, synchronized with all my computers, smartphone, etc. Maybe Zotero does more than Wallabag, but I am happy with it so far.…
— Shorel, 2026-10-08 · The Slow Formation of Durable Software · source

What difficulties are you having? All you need is WebDAV. I use a nextcloud server for mine and my partner's zotero storage, and its entirely trivial to set up. I have many issues with Zotero (which has been dumbing down at the expense of power users for some time) – but easy p…
— epihelix, 2026-10-08 · The Slow Formation of Durable Software · source

For folks who are wondering: This post is about Zotero. https://www.zotero.org/ If you are not an academic, you might not know Zotero. It is such a pleasure to use. Every app should be like this. I read everything in it, including books I'm going through right now from https://te…
— nickledave, 2026-10-08 · The Slow Formation of Durable Software · source

If you love Zotero as is, I'd say the app isn't for you. However, as far as I know, I have covered almost everything Zotero has, and I find the adoption stage to be easier than when I started using Zotero, and I like that it's a little easier on the eyes. A couple of differences;…
— jeuribe, 2026-08-17 · Show HN: LinXiv v0.4.0; paper manager now using n0's iroh for P2P collaboration · source

How does this compare to zotero and why would I use it over that?…
— kooi, 2026-08-17 · Show HN: LinXiv v0.4.0; paper manager now using n0's iroh for P2P collaboration · source

…nt servers can handle it. Works well as PWA (apps coming soon). The most common browser-based readers are Inoreader and Feedly. Inoreader has more features, but I prefer Feedly’s UI.…
— tjansen, 2026-10-21 · Ask HN: What's a good RSS feed reader? · source

…s, but it was missing something and I did not find myself using it very often. Then I started comparing it to how I use feedly, and started understanding the subtle issues with this reader. Once I fixed the edge cases, this tool became much better with a lot of better functionali…
— akxkcd, 2026-10-13 · Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts · source

I don't know about "best", but I've tried many, Reeder, Feedly etc, for many years. These are not OSS though, but Reeder was my favorite of the bunch. I settled on running NewsBlur on an OVH instance, it's open source and so are the apps. https://github.com/samuelclay/newsblur On…
— stasomatic, 2026-07-01 · Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client · source

Sure, I use Feedly myself, but RSS is increasingly marginalized. I use to follow blogs, but it's not usable for mainstream media, Reddit, HN, etc etc.…
— decimalenough, 2026-03-15 · The 49MB web page · source

…asis from which to build this sort of logic. It's vastly harder if you don't has an open feed to start with. e.g. I use Feedly, and set lots of mute filters to screen out topics.…
— marojejian, 2026-03-09 · The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025) · source

Hello everyone, I've been missing powertoys color picker when i switched to Linux, i have taken a look at the popular color pickers, some didn't work on Wayland, other lacked features powertoys had, so i made one and I'm here to share it You can pick any pixel with a 10× magnifie…
— Mujtaba1i, 2026-10-30 · Archtoys – a fast, PowerToys-style color picker for Linux (Rust and Slint) · source

On Windows I use PowerToys' Alt+Space command bar which does a much better job. In fact, it's the only search I use on Windows.…
— qsi, 2026-09-15 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

…gs well. (I recently heard they're looking to fix that, though?) There are third-party tools, like WizFile, Everything, PowerToys, now Raycast, etc. and I could perhaps look into those, but they just didn't seem to fit right. I ended up organizing all the files I needed into a fo…
— LoganDark, 2026-08-04 · That time when I failed the Microsoft interview · source

> usable Not just usable, but respectful. I like Windows, in terms of the desktop UX (with PowerToys). There are some pretty nice features, and the window management w/ FancyZones beats the pants off whatever the hell macOS is doing (I use a macbook pro for work, the window manag…
— thewebguyd, 2026-06-14 · You need to stop using Windows 11 [video][14 mins] · source

…ch means I have to jump through hoops whenever I write in French. The best tool I've found for this is QuickAccent from PowerToys: instead of typing a accent and after the letter, it cycles through the available options as you hold the key. With muscle memory, you just know how m…
— aclydes, 2026-05-18 · QuickAccent from Powertoys to Linux/macOS built with Rust and Iced · source

I use NetNewsWire. It’s free, open-source, and explicitly says not to send money. > First thing: don’t send money. This app is written for love, not money. :) https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/T...…
— al_borland, 2026-08-01 · How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) · source

Just why bother relying on Google products for RSS? I use for the last many years NetNewsWire and have never had any problems reading the news I want to read. For ref: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire…
— konsalexee, 2026-08-01 · How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) · source

…still use your favorite newsreader to follow the people you really want to listen to. That's what I plan on doing with NetNewsWire. 2. It only works online. Newsreaders got started when bandwidth was at a premium and nobody had a T1 to their house, let alone 1Gbps. 3. We use the…
— jdeibele, 2026-07-03 · Show HN: Topics, Not Feeds · source

Highly recommend NetNewsWire, especially if one is already using it on any other Apple device. Recent updates have substantially improved its performance (on both iOS and macOS), so it's worth a second look if you haven't tried it recently.…
— brycewray, 2026-07-01 · Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client · source

Thanks for adding RSS! Bringing Bubbles (and HN) into NetNewsWire is a game-changer for content discovery and keeping a clean reading list.…
— speak_plainly, 2026-06-17 · Hacker News but for independent blogs · source

…y as path" all the time. It's good for if you have scripts and want a program in a different folder to launch them (e.g AutoHotKey, Task Scheduler).…
— recursive-call, 2026-11-04 · Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines · source

…need to move current window it's ctrl-shift-super-number. On a work windows mashine I use the exa t same keys thanks to AutoHotkey software. So I have the exact same work flow on Linux and Windows. The only difference is on Windows workspace 1 is WSL terminal. Ive been working li…
— Roark66, 2026-09-24 · Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop · source

…the windows under the cursor just by pressing a key combination and moving my mouse. Many many years ago I used to use AutoHotkey on Windows for this functionality and was missing it when I switched to Mac. Another thing I've configured is scrolling through a key press and dragg…
— vulkoingim, 2026-08-19 · OpenLogi · source

…vigate through UIs again and click a ton of options (perhaps following notes on what to click; I never descended to the AutoHotKey level of madness, though).…
— zahlman, 2026-07-12 · Good Tools Are Invisible · source

I used to be and think like you, except I used AutoHotkey instead. It kicked off my IT career - writing AHK scripts for the helpdesk I used to work at greatly improved the efficiency of the team, and quickly got me promoted to Tier 2. Eventually I left that organisation and joine…
— d3Xt3r, 2026-07-08 · Why I Still Build Small Windows Tools with AutoIt · source

I use the todoist mcp. Im not en engineer though.…
— ishtanbul, 2026-10-27 · AI promised less work. I've never worked more · source

In case it is useful for anybody. I forked the old Pocket-Plus-Calibre-Plugin recipe when Pocket died, so it run with Todoist: https://github.com/rga5321/todoist2ebook My workflow is: (1) Browse my favorite sites and rss feeds. Save the urls I want to read to a specific Todoist…
— rga5321, 2026-08-15 · I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone · source

I use luna to schedule my work day for me and then put it in todoist.…
— jofzar, 2026-08-11 · LFM2.5 2.6B model competitive with 4x larger models · source

…oute based on content. I have a button that routes to an internal voice agent named KiKo. Ideas get routed to Things or todoist. Issues get routed to github, etc. It’s one universal surface for note capture. But man is it ugly.…
— cyberge99, 2026-08-10 · Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open · source

…cess entirely. But if Fable could build a Boox or reMarkable app, that might be a big win. I've tried task warrior, and todoist, and in the end I just keep going back to a straight text file I edit.…
— linsomniac, 2026-07-07 · Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter · source

…c. > Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management Not a problem, I can just customize my hammerspoon config to behave differently > Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it That depends more on what my friends are usin…
— zuhsetaqi, 2026-09-19 · Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7 · source

…I'm sure there's more to learn about hyprland and I can imagine it being superior to what I'm used to (macOS with some hammerspoon binds for window management/layouts).…
— jsuth, 2026-08-21 · Omacom Foundation launches with $8M · source

…es background playback, second press begins foreground playback. (Could probably script that now that I say it, an easy Hammerspoon or something.)…
— Barbing, 2026-06-08 · Stop the Apple Music app from launching · source

…built-in IPC layers, Emacs is terrific with inter-process communication. That's how I manage my WM on Mac, where I use Hammerspoon. Wondrous piece on its own, it is Lua-enabled, which means I can use Fennel, which means I can have Lispy-REPL, which means I can connect to it dire…
— iLemming, 2026-05-14 · The Emacsification of Software · source

on MacOS I used to use Yabai but moved away from it to using a hammerspoon setup to manipulate window positions. This was mostly because bsp just doesn't scale well with larger displays, in my opinion. For me, the spatial mapping of windows comes naturally, though. For MacOS, I h…
— least, 2026-04-25 · Niri 26.04: Scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor · source

…the right display. Now the Siri shortcut and the Spotlight shortcut launch exactly the same centaur—I had to hardcode a Karabiner-proxy-into-BTT flow to make the old Siri shortcut launch Siri into real Siri mode, and F4 to launch Siri-Spotlight-Centaur into apps mode. Safari is s…
— Zarah__, 2026-10-12 · macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess · source

…as been around for longer. What has really made it work for me is using a Bluetooth media control like [2], where I use Karabiner Elements to remap its play/pause button to the dictation keyboard shortcut. I map rewind to option-backspace to delete the last word, fast-forward to…
— crazygringo, 2026-10-11 · Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac · source

I switched to Mac 20 years ago and am still mourning the loss of my Home and End keys. Karabiner doesn’t reliably fix it neither does anything else.…
— user3939382, 2026-10-09 · Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs · source

…tween mouse and trackpad really sucks when you have to occasionally use both and don't want them to behave identically. Karabiner: MacOS's keyboard mapping is incredibly underpowered. AeroSpace/yabai: I don't use these anymore, because these also were pretty buggy for my use case…
— SmasherEpilepti, 2026-09-16 · macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review · source

I use Karabiner-Elements on macOS, and finding keyd was a godsend on Linux. I cannot deal with standard keyboard mappings and the lack of hold/tap keys.…
— innocentoldguy, 2026-06-13 · A key remapping daemon for Linux · source

…fast. I use it daily to maintain my 8000+ note Zettelkasten that also acts as a personal CRM (meeting transcriptions), Readwise collection, journal, and home for agent rollout summaries. Core to its design are questions that are generated from recent material and projected over…
— jphorism, 2026-10-24 · Show HN: Enzyme – a programming language that compiles wikis for agents · source

…write letters I can print out. Essentially digital typewriter. https://www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/zerowriter-ink - Readwise - enables me to review highlighted passages and ideas from things I read - Obsidian - I dump text files into it, it syncs it around for me to review or…
— philips, 2026-09-12 · Is it time for a Luddite Renaissance? · source

…'s a great feeling. I now finally have an app that I use to save both links and articles to read, sort of in-between of Readwise Reader and Raindrop (and it does sync with Readwise). I write my blog posts in a little browser-based note-taking app with sharing. It's minimal and lo…
— ymolodtsov, 2026-08-01 · Software for One · source

One thing that changed reading for me was Readwise. One of my favorite products. Super simple concept, I just highlight quotes I like, then I get a daily email of random things I've highlighted. Great way to retain info from non-fiction books, and to retain the feeling of special…
— Ozzie_osman, 2026-07-12 · How to read more books · source

…ht, Excalidraw, Hotkey Helper, Image in Editor, Minimal Theme Settings, Omnisearch, Outliner, Periodic Notes, QuickAdd, Readwise Official, Recent Files, Relay, Style Settings, Tag Wrangler, TaskNotes, Templater HTH!…
— chrisweekly, 2026-05-12 · The Future of Obsidian Plugins · source

Mine is a notebook, a sketch book and a reading device. I read books and queued Instapaper articles, take meeting notes, and make digital art. I love that device to bits.…
— nicbou, 2026-10-26 · New iPad mini · source

I use Instapaper on my kobo for this, ifttt or zappier can subscribe an rss feed to Instapaper, also the browser extension is nice. See some article whilst I'm at work, click the browser extension, and when I'm on the train home Its there on my e-reader.…
— phelm, 2026-08-14 · I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone · source

…of reading digitally. I find it easier to stay engaged because a book has only one purpose while my iPad Mini also has Instapaper and the internet. It’s also much easier to pick up and keep reading, and the book itself is a progress indicator. I also love sharing paper books wit…
— nicbou, 2026-04-12 · Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions · source

I have a kobo and I use Instapaper. Is this similar?…
— mparnisari, 2026-03-29 · I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper · source

…side-by-side with a B&W screen. I do miss whisper sync, which I’d occasionally use to read a few pages on my phone. The Instapaper integration is awesome— I used to pay for KTool to accomplish something similar.…
— johnhamlin, 2026-03-29 · I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper · source

…had some issues with grayjay desktop(not the mobile app which works great) I then simply moved all my subscriptions to miniflux and newsrafts(which I now rarely use). I use feedflow on android and reminiflux on desktop as I don't like the miniflux frontend. So now if there is a…
— 0fflineuser, 2026-10-31 · HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN · source

…ly I still talk to people on there) - my very small imgur-inspired image hosting (https://github.com/deniska/imghost) - miniflux (RSS client, I am trying to get into a habit of reading RSS feeds instead of letting the algorithm to decide what I read) - git directory with bare rep…
— deniska, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

…ot already, but one thing I do that I haven't seen others already doing yet is I run a news summarization pipeline with Miniflux and Flatnotes. All my feeds are in one of two categories; Summarize and NoSummarize. Once a day, a script fires at everything unread in the Summarize c…
— mrngld, 2026-10-09 · Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? · source

I use 1Password, RSS Button (To highlight if the page has a feed, so I can subscribe with my own Miniflux instance), 1Blocker (Ad blocking), Tampermonkey for loading userscripts on some websites, Readdeck extension to easily send something to my "read later" pile. It's not a lot…
— dewey, 2026-09-14 · iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 · source

…of the feeds I subscribe to do not include the full text in the feed themselves which is one of the main reasons I use Miniflux which has an option to fetch the full article text and works very reliably. Of the more than 150 feeds I am subscribed to, I think there are fewer than…
— MattTheRealOne, 2026-08-14 · I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone · source

I use Typora, although it’s not “knowledge management” beyond a basic Markdown editor with a file tree.…
— armchairhacker, 2026-11-04 · Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one · source

…ideal for writing a document. So the idea is: what if we could have a "visual" tab for LaTeX and Typst and edit like in Typora? Source: https://github.com/texpile/texpile…
— asyncfun, 2026-10-06 · Show HN: Texpile – An open-source, Typora-style editor for LaTeX and Typst · source

+1 for Typora. One of the things I like is that it gives you some flexibility in how it handles images you drag into a document for embedding purposes. My favorite option is the one where it automatically colocates assets by creating a folder with the same name as the file, appen…
— vunderba, 2026-08-11 · Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS · source

I've been using Typora for years. It has a pretty great export/print.…
— emehex, 2026-08-11 · Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS · source

As a user of Obsidian I like this, it looks good and clean. I use Typora often as it is easier to start in a folder and just work on the files, on top it has nice visuals. Very good work.…
— desireco42, 2026-05-18 · Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian · source

…b crawler of 958+ makers (artisans, craftspeople, smiths, authors), focusing on interesting people building interesting things around the world. TECH STACK: Selenium/Chrome drive the 'WOBBOT' crawler, with some SerpAPI, Pyton/bs4/html5lib/pillow/spaCy does named-entity extraction…
— shanedevane, 2026-10-25 · Show HN: Directory 958 inspirational artisans, craftspeople, smiths, for post-AI · source

Brave has certainly said a lot of good things while doing quite [0] a lot [1] of bad [2] things [3] that make me think it's mostly just marketing to lower-knowledge users that's carrying it forward. I see so many 'privacy' influencers that recommend it and Chromium, and then Fire…
— paimapi, 2026-08-16 · Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker · source

…e mesure I have), over 16+ weeks, with Opus 4.6 (nothinking!) and now Fable (low thinking). I get there not doing a few things differently: 1. I frontload the design-time thinking and elaboration. I absolutely use agents in design (usually 2 of them, plus me). However, I don't le…
— DaveParkCity, 2026-07-29 · The task is not the job · source

…noticed none of the apps felt native to the iPhone, and I wanted something that felt on-part with the likes of Flighty, Things 3, and such. Out of my love for weightlifting I then shipped Plates and have been working on it ever since. It's a completely native iPhone lifting app (…
— tomburgs, 2026-07-13 · Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) · source

…s at work. Yahtzee Croshaw reading his books is fantastic [2]. As is Patrick Rothfuss reading The Slow Regard of Silent Things [3]. A more recent author I listened to was Adrian Tchaikovsky reading Service Model [4]. He was so good, I checked to see if he had theater training! Re…
— russellbeattie, 2026-01-12 · JRR Tolkien reads from The Hobbit for 30 Minutes (1952) · source

…deberg.org/bouncepaw/betula/) for this purpose of a self-hosted personal Google (for websites). (For file search, I use voidtools' Everything, and I'm not sure why anyone other than Microsoft would want to mix local file results and web results) This project looks cool, though I…
— pidgeon_lover, 2026-09-18 · Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep · source

…od way to put it. There are third-party tools that Microsoft really need to adopt to make Windows a bit nicer (WizTree, VoidTools Everything, adopt improvements from Total Commander, make more PowerToys default), but broadly it is still a decent OS. There are issues like slow `Cl…
— delta_p_delta_x, 2026-03-20 · Our commitment to Windows quality · source

One of my first visible actions when working at a new company is to recommend the search software Voidtools Everything, and to set a 30 minute meeting to teach people how to use it. For the next 6-12 months I get so much positive feedback about all the time that is saved while na…
— Cyan488, 2026-01-29 · Is it worth it? (2021) · source

Holy crap, thanks for sharing this. I'm still pretty new to macOS, but I absolutely love Voidtools Everything on Windows. If Cardinal supports the same syntax as Everything and is anywhere near responsive, that'll be a gamechanger for me.…
— biglyburrito, 2025-12-05 · Cardinal: Fastest file searching tool for macOS · source

…e the services manager allows me to make sure that certain services arent running, like Windows search indexing - I use voidtools Everything instead. That said, those tend to be the exceptions and not the rules. I've actually been quite pleased with the progression of the settin…
— LexiMax, 2025-08-03 · Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework · source

…tracker, 5–6 AI agents etc. It was fast to learn: get a DM, press ^3; to file a bug, press ^4 etc. I use this with the Rectangle app for window tiling, and this combination works great for me; I rarely ever use Cmd+Tab. I also have a personal menubar app that's very similar to S…
— thamer, 2026-04-10 · Native Instant Space Switching on macOS · source

I install Rectangle App on any mac I use. The keybinds are convenient and the auto-sizing/tiling is pleasant as can be.…
— Supermancho, 2026-01-11 · The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe · source

I use shortcuts to split windows with rectangle app all the time it’s really more powerful than split screen…
— shinycode, 2025-07-25 · Show HN: A macOS clock that stays visible when coding or binging in fullscreen · source

I can recommend you to also use "Rectangle" app with that.…
— greatgib, 2025-03-02 · macOS Tips and Tricks (2022) · source

I love the Rectangle app. The problem is that the average Mac user has no idea this exists at all. So when Joe Windows considers switching over to Mac, they see that there's no equivalent to the Windows snapping feature that's been in their OS since Windows 7, and they might thin…
— dangus, 2024-06-11 · macOS Sequoia Preview · source

…e Linux almost definitely beats macOS or Windows. > OnniGraffle There's a large swathe of diagramming tools in Linux. > Alfred App Yep, both KDE and Gnome are able to handle this task as well as Alfred. Like automation, this is probably an area Linux will be able to shine above m…
— deaddodo, 2024-12-14 · macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive · source

to be honest, I use the calibre ebook viewer without bothering with calibre itself (so far) and I find it to be good at what it does…
— wing-_-nuts, 2026-07-29 · KOReader · source

Same and it's my favourite Kobo feature. I hope Mozilla releases Pocket source code for people willing to self-host it. Kobos are highly hackable and I'm sure the community will find a way to change getpocket.com domain in the built-in Pocket app, even if Rakuten chooses not to p…
— gobblegobble2, 2025-05-22 · Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot · source