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Chronos Blog
Company blog · chronos-desk.com/blog · on HN as elmers-glueproductivityprogramming
Chronos Blog is the company blog at chronos-desk.com, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2021, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link this site as a local-first personal task manager with time estimates, mainly for desktop use. The comments do not discuss any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Chronos, for software developers and knowledge workers alike: manage your plans, tasks and time together.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-12-16
What Hacker News says?
I've made a few desktop apps in https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx (e.g., https://www.chronos-desk.com/ ), and cljfx (JavaFX + Clojure) is amazing and makes for rapid development, not to mention fun. I'm keeping an eye on https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI , which promises to be a step up.
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on “The decline and fall of Java on the desktop”Submitted Coupling and Estimating as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI suspect that, when it comes down to it, the cake-iest of all apps is a "todo" app :) My contribution is https://www.chronos-desk.com/ Personally I wanted a task app that was local-first[1] (integrated with my desktop; one-time license/no subscription fee; no saas/web browser), had great keyboard shortcut support, and had first-class support for task estimates. --- [1] https://martin.kleppmann.com/papers/local-firs…
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on “I was stuck on a side project for 5 years – how I finished it (2020)”Submitted Coupling and Estimation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.chronos-desk.com/ Personal tasks with estimates and focused on “local first”/desktop usage.
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on “Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell”Submitted Did I deliver value on June 17th? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.chronos-desk.com/ Local-first personal task management with estimation.
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on “Ask HN: Show me your half baked project”