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Patrick Rhone
Personal blog · patrickrhone.comproductivitydesign
Patrick Rhone's personal blog at patrickrhone.com covers productivity and design. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Patrick Rhone's posts on personal productivity and tools, including a 2006 article on implementing GTD with 37signals Backpack, his font choice post, and the dash-plus note-taking system.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
This was my main reason for finding the right monospace font for me too, and to easier differentiate O and 0—I prefer a bar across the zero instead of a dot. But now that I’ve been using Inconsolata for years, it has become my final choice* so I won’t need to waste my time hunting and comparing for a better font. Done deal. * http://patrickrhone.com/2010/11/05/final-choices/
Comment linking /2010/11/05/final-choices/
on “Top Programming Fonts”Submitted The Dash/Plus System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy blog and podcast feeds go around these few main interests of mine: software, art, design, music and Apple. Podcasts: Varieties, science, design. * This American Life. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/ * Radiolab. http://www.radiolab.org/series/podcasts/ * Planet Money. http://www.npr.org/planetmoney * Stuff You Should Know. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ * The Infinite Monkey Cage. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b…
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on “Ask HN: What tech blogs, podcasts do you follow outside of HN?”Submitted The Dash/Plus System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of a the dash-plus system for note taking: http://patrickrhone.com/dashplus/
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on “Bullet journal: A simple productivity system that just uses pen and paper”Submitted Twitter Zen and the Art of Retweet Maintenance as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>It always makes me a bit sad when any site is taken offline. I haven't even heard of Simple Desks before, but it still makes me sad that it is gone. I'm very, very sympathetic to this issue, and agree that it hurts when any site goes down. However, Simple Desks was mostly a curated gallery of what already exists on the internet. A quick Google search for "Simple Desks" will turn up basically the same thing. The oth…
Comment linking /2011/12/20/permanently-impermanent
on “Shutting Down My Site”Submitted The Dash/Plus System as a story · 1 points
HN discussion37signals Backpack. http://backpackit.com/ For more information read this article: http://patrickrhone.com/2006/06/27/backpack-new-gtd-implemen...
Comment linking /2006/06/27/backpack-new-gtd-implementation-ideas/
on “[Ask HN] How do you organize your tasks/to-do lists?”Submitted So You Wanna Be A Mac Consultant Now… as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make It Better as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons From Disney as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Walden Pond to Twitter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sensible Defaults as a story · 1 points
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