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majestic8··on Show HN: FixBugs – Reproduce production bugs and verify fixes
This looks very useful! What type of sandbox are you using? How does the mocking work?
majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
Okay, I had to make a few adjustments, but here is a lower resolution version. I verified that I can read the text easily on my phone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBIkdDUrQY

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
Thank you, I put in a lot of effort in that README, since I've seen a lot of other projects where they have been less than impressive.

> Are you planning to make the app usable by non programmer users in the future?

I do not have such plan in the near future. A major concern is the cost of supporting such users, and a minor one is the ease of understanding of the basic building blocks (events, topics, structures) since modeling your data using these requires a programmer mindset.

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
> maybe there is value in explicitly making it two steps

Not that I can tell. Telegram is ultimately a workaround, not a feature. Not building a mobile app is primarily the result of the limits on my time (and to a smaller extent, skills, but that can be solved with time too).

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
:D

One of my favorite moments in the game too!

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
I just added a YouTube link so that this isn't required.
majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
I'd love to see it, if you're willing to share!
majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
> group tasks into specific categories

I do this using a separate "topic" for each of my projects, and "structure" for "Project Work". See https://imgur.com/a/nehojJN

> setting recurring reminders for my list

I actually wrote a plugin for this [1]. If there are no recent "events" for a given "topic", it shows up on the sidebar. As I mentioned in another comment, the original goal was conversation reminders with friends, but I use it for project work too.

> I'm not sure its going to work for my purposes

I'd recommend looking at the backup files, since they're basically JSON data that can be transformed and exported to whatever else you want, in case you find something better.

[1] https://github.com/kaustubh-karkare/glados/blob/master/src/p...

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
I just looked at your repo, and I really like the "long term projects" idea that can span multiple events over days. While I have considered it for GLADOS, I've haven't solved the problem to my satisfaction.

Right now, I use structured events for all personal projects: https://imgur.com/a/nehojJN but there isn't an overall project status.

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
Well, since I have no plans to make a business around this, I'm not worried :)
majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
If there was someone selling this, I would buy it!
majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
I so want that now!
majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
Apologies: it is a desktop app, and so I recorded the demo on [HD resolution](https://github.com/kaustubh-karkare/glados/blob/master/src/d...) to make it look as close to my intended experience as possible.

I'm assuming you're on mobile, so later today, I'll try making a separate demo video specifically for this case.

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
Thank you :)

Now that I see the value, I wish I had built this sooner, would have helped me a lot over the years.

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
You're not missing anything, that's exactly it.
majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
Desktop only for now. I use the "Saved Messages" feature in Telegram to make notes on phone, and transfer them over later, and delete those messages to avoid build up.

From the beginning, it was never limited to work-related productivity. Examples of things that I've been regularly tracking:

  - Habits: Wake Up / Sleep times, Daily Routine items I want to build consistency on, like exercising and meditation.
  - Tracking TV Shows, Movies, Books, Articles.
  - Meal Tracking, although it does not include calorie counting. I also track my weight, and find that graph particularly useful.
  - Birthday / Anniversary Reminders, with multiple warning days to adjust for timezone difference.
  - Conversations and Meeting notes, so that I can quickly remind myself about previous discussion when I am about to talk to someone.
Fun fact: I ended up accidentally impressing the girl who became my fiance with my "good memory" because of this.

I also added custom things like "conversation reminders" since I'm an introvert and needed a bit of a nudge if I have not spoken to certain friends in X days.

Television Example - https://imgur.com/a/gLZKkjn

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
A tribute :)

Lots of good memories playing the game in university.

Note the favicon picture.

majestic8··on GLADOS – Generic Life Activity Data Organization System
Does this help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd3JJi8zSk4
majestic8··on A Programmer’s Introduction to Unicode
Can someone help me understand why prefixes used in UTF-8 jump from "0" to "110", "1110", "11110" and so on? Why is "10" missing?