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Dan Lucraft
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Dan Lucraft's personal blog at danlucraft.com covers programming. Since 2009, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “A Plain Text Personal Organizer (2008)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Lucraft's 2008 posts on a plain-text organizer, which keeps notes and calendars in one free-form text file. One commenter praises its calendar syntax and 30-day trial notation.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Plain Text Personal Organizer (2008)5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-02-08
What Hacker News says?
"One big text file" was a big deal a while back. Here's a post by Merlin Mann: http://www.43folders.com/2005/08/17/life-inside-one-big-text... For notes, I keep trying all kinds of apps and approaches, but I always come back to a single big text file. It's surprisingly easy to search. The main thing is it's just so convenient. Edit: This is a better link https://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/
Comment linking /blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/
on “My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file”Submitted Learning about Redis through writing a Twitter clone as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBeen in a similar philosophy for a while now. I like the idea of staying native to the OS, using open formats as much as possible, and using interoperable toolings. The idea is to approach content as data-first, with tools on top, and be at ease with plans to Walk-Out when needed. Besides the article in discussion, here are a few inspirations for plain-text as the defaults. - The writing of our very own Obsidian’s C…
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on “My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)”Submitted A Plain Text Personal Organizer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNice. This reminds me of Daniel Lucraft's Plain Text Organizer (from 2008). Nice free-form syntax for calendar, and a clever notation for "30-day trials": https://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/
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on “Plain Text Calendar”Submitted A Plain Text Personal Organizer (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt seems like plain text has made a comeback among the generation that remembers Notepad and vim. The key thing is the focus on the routine and structure, rather than the choice of app or the styling. I've been putting together a collection of plain text applications: plain text todo / notes combination [ https://jeffhuang.com/productivity_text_file/ ] plain text accounting [ https://plaintextaccounting.org/ ] plain…
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on “I still use plain text for everything. (2016)”Submitted A Plain Text Personal Organizer (2008) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThen again... http://danlucraft.com/blog/2007/08/comparing-erlang-and-prol...
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on “Rethinking Prolog [pdf]”Submitted Twitter Forgets to Abstract, Again as a story · 1 points
HN discussionremind me of this http://danlucraft.com/blog/2008/04/plain-text-organizer/
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on “Ask HN: How do you keep track of articles you want to read?”Submitted Fast JRuby profiler: jruby-prof 0.1 as a story · 1 points
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