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Products that do what Contextual – Personal task management based on GTD principle does
Hello HN! I just released a beta for a personal task manager. Screenshot attached can be seen here https://twitter.com/philipyoungg/status/860445511769235459. Currently, it works fully online—but I plan to develop online sync capabilities & mobile app after I got feedbacks and nail basic features from early adopters. You can check it as an online web app on http://beta.getcontextual.com, or Twitter DM / email me on ([email protected]) for offline beta version. I used React/Redux/Ramda to develop this and wrap the desktop app on Electron :)
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2021 · simpler-state.js.org
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I recently decided to try out Google Tasks as my only task management system, and while I find some things about the interface great, it really isn't suited for someone like me who has multiple lists with lots of elements on each. So, I whipped this together real fast and I can't imagine using Google Tasks without it anymore. I realized you might want it too, so I put it on the web. Enjoy :)
2011 · gtasker.com
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2017 · hiration.com
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2021 · github.com
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2018 · github.com
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I've been working in the couple of months on an experiment, trying to make GPT-4 much more useful for web development / React, writing production code that is relevant to any repository without copy pasta from ChatGPT or having small snippets of auto-complete from Copilot that are not in your context. The agent is taking a user story text and generating and composing multiple react components to generate the relevant screens, based on atomic design principles, with Typescript, TailwindCSS and RadixUI. Is is still experimental but very interesting results, I would like to get your…
2023 · github.com
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2016 · rumblelist.com
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2018 · github.com
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Its a completely free, Open-source cross platform application written in React and Electron. Its combination of a Calendar, Rich Text Editor, a Sticky Notes and a ToDo list. The Editor, Sticky Notes and Todo list are driven by the calendar that will help you organize your work and thoughts per day. This makes it more like a digital diary with some additional features. A spotlight like search component is also integrated to help you search the content. https://github.com/ashishBharadwaj/flawesome Give it shot! If you like it Give a Star on Github. It really Helps :)
2020
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At my day job, we have a daily async stand-up. We have to message a slack bot how many hours we have worked on a given task that day and overall. The format is: > Task: "Task Name" | Worked: 5h Total: 16h > Description: Finished implementation of feature. I don't complain. Most fully remote jobs come with a version of this, but doing it manually got tedious. So, I needed a simple app that would track this. I am not usually a fan of "vibe coded" apps, but this was an ideal candidate for it, since it's not production code. Most LLMs solve the problem by creating a single HTML file with forms…
2025 · htmlsync.io
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Hello HN, I created Decispher (decispher.com) to enable human developers and AI agents working alongside each other to share their context. It has some pretty cool features, like Branch Story (explains why a branch's code looks the way it does) and Session Context Transfer (an MCP tool that can copy context from one chat, agent, or machine to another). You can also capture context from engineering platforms like Slack, JIRA, and Git(hub/lab) just by tagging @Decispher.
Jul 2026
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hi all, i just released Kanba, a self-hostable, open source project management tool built for developers and small teams who prefer to own their tools. - no vendor lock-in - fully local data (via Supabase or your own backend) - MIT licensed - lightweight, minimal UI. think Trello, but open and yours tech stack: React + Tailwind + Supabase github link on comments would love feedback or ideas. contributions welcome!
2025
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Hi HN! We are building [Merlin](https://www.usemerlin.io/), a GTM intelligence platform that gathers contextual insights about prospects and key stakeholders, so sellers don’t have to spend hours on tedious research tasks across hundreds of companies. Our thesis is that content generation and workflow/sequence automation providers are generating a lot of noise in social media (and inboxes) today and they are making the problem of outbound sales worse. We believe that every customer interaction (emails, cold calls or discovery calls) should be powered by intelligence. With…
2024 · usemerlin.io
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Hello HN! I got pretty overwhelmed with Notion, Trello, etc. (Even though they are great tools!) as an indie dev, so I built an app that is simpler to use and perfectly suited for an indie like me :) You can basically divide your projects into multiple milestones (a milestone could be e.g. a new version), and the milestones can have multiple tasks that are either todo, in progress, or done. The progress for each milestone is calculated with those tasks, and you can also prioritize and categorize the tasks using tags (E.g. for me, #ph turns into "High Priority", and #pm into "Medium…
2024 · apps.apple.com
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2017 · github.com
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Hi HN, Added a raw 45-second demo showing the DOM re-architecture in real-time: https://streamable.com/vw133i I got tired of the "Context Problem" with static portfolios—Recruiters want a resume, Founders want a pitch deck, and Engineers want to see architecture. Instead of building three sites, I hooked up my React frontend to Llama-3 (via Groq for <100ms latency). It analyzes natural language intent from the search bar and physically re-architects the Component Tree to prioritize the most relevant modules using Framer Motion. The hardest part was stabilizing the Cumulative…
Feb 2026 · pramit-mandal-ai.netlify.app
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Hi HN! Solo developer here. 10 days ago, I started building this after spending countless hours copying/pasting marketing sections and fighting to keep them consistent with our design system. I wondered: "What if AI could understand our design system and generate React components that actually match it?" Current progress (10 days in): - Can generate hero sections that follow your design tokens - Uses your actual component variants and styles - Works with Next.js, Tailwind, shadcn/ui It's very early days, but I'm excited to share it with other devs who: - Are tired of rebuilding…
2024 · robustlaunch.com
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2018 · homlina.com
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Chrome recently shipped navigator.modelContext in Early Preview. It's a browser API that lets any website expose typed, callable tools to AI agents. I built webmcp-react because we wanted a simple way to add tools to our React app and figured others could benefit from it as well. You wrap your app in , call useMcpTool with a Zod schema, and that's it. Handles StrictMode, SSR, dynamic mount/unmount, and all of the React lifecycle. It also comes with a Chrome extension in the repo that acts as a bridge for MCP clients (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.), since they can't access…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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Hi HN! I'm excited to share the task manager that I've been building and relying on for the past 9 months I started developing Frogtab after a particularly busy period at work, where a large number of ad-hoc tasks would need my attention each day. What I Initially tried was a single (long!) checklist of outstanding tasks, but I found that too overwhelming to look at all day long. Then I tried scheduling tasks based on when I expected to complete them, but that also required too much cognitive load - I only had the capacity to bucket tasks into "today" and "not today" And so Frogtab was born.…
2023 · frogtab.com
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