Trace the reflexive tool for knowledge workers

What it does

Stop losing thoughts and breaking your flow. Trace is the effortless way to capture, find, and reuse information from the web. Highlight any text on the web and save it with a single click. Trace automatically remembers the source, so you can stay in your flow. Bring up a powerful search palette with a shortcut. Instantly find what you need with keywords, or use tags to filter your results. A thought strikes. Don't let it fade. Type ;note to instantly capture ideas and thoughts without leaving your keyboard. Paste your clips and notes anywhere. Snippets appear with original formatting and a source link, maintaining context and saving youfrom theprismlabs.github.io

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  Thinking for a Living2015 · amazon.com · ▲62

  How knowledge workers reach peak performance and productivit

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  Pheebs23d ago · eversynced.com · ▲95

  Measure how engineers and teams actually work with AI

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  Soft Control: Leaks from an Information Broker2016 · softcontrol.us · ▲61

  A new book on surviving the knowledge economy

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  Note to Self - The Case for Infomagical2016 · waaa.wnyc.org · ▲62

  A campaign to end information overload

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  Collaborative Intelligence2016 · amazon.com · ▲65

  Collaboration across different modes of thinking

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  Practical Empathy2016 · rosenfeldmedia.com · ▲65

  For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work

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  Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi▲319

  Endless lofi beats composed live in your browser, over pixel-art nights in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Hong Kong, Sydney, San Francisco and more. Free, no sign-up.

  Work · 25d ago · loficities.com

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  Smooth Recorder▲257

  Mac screen recordings that look edited when you hit stop

  Work · 19d ago · smoothrecorder.com

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  Figma Specs▲223

  A container for your context that lives on the Figma canvas

  Work · 4d ago · figma.com

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  The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read▲190

  Work · 13d ago · readrare.com

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  I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights▲1,539

  Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!

  Life & fun · 2025 · jameshard.ing

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  Chronicle: Cursor for Slides▲1,212

  Stunning presentations with AI. No design skills required.

  AI · 2025 · chroniclehq.com

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  Bubble for native mobile apps (beta)▲1,026

  Build native mobile apps for iOS and Android without code.

  Dev tools · 2025 · bble.io

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  Twenty▲989

  Build your Enterprise CRM with an AI-friendly SDK

  Dev tools · 2025 · twenty.com

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  Pally - AI Relationship Management▲949

  All your connections, across all your socials.

  AI · 2025 · pally.com

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  Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform▲827

  I was the main contributor to workout.lol, an open-source fitness app to easily build a workout routine. The project had traction (1.4k GitHub stars, 95 forks, ~20K visits/month), but was eventually sold due to video licensing hurdles. The new owner stopped maintaining it, and the repo went abandoned. Over the next 9 months, I sent 15 emails to try to save it : no replies. Feature requests & issues were ignored. The community was left with a "broken" tool let's say. I couldn't just let it die So I built the new version from scratch with the same open-source spirit, but a better…

  Dev tools · 2025 · github.com