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Show HN: I've got some spare time, something I made to stop procrastinating (ivegotsomespareti.me)
6 points by IanCal on Aug 6, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hi all.

I made this today because it's something I've wanted for a while.

If I've got a bit of spare time, I often end up wasting it in the same few ways.

And yet, whenever I'm busy there are loads of small things I'd love to do a bit more. Build something new, do a drawing, practice a bit more German, watch one of many films, work out, play a board game, play the guitar for 10 minutes, do a bit of cleaning...

These all get forgotten quickly, and don't fit neatly into any of the task-planners I've played with. I just wanted something really simple, so here it is.

Say things you'd like to do, and then it'll pick from them randomly. I want to extend this to be smarter, but randomly actually works fairly well.

I've added some monetisation through amazon associates links, which are hand chosen for things I really do recommend.

All your data stays on your machine using localstorage, I'm not receiving your task list and there's no signup, it's just a few static pages. Though I have added google analytics I've tried to turn off cookies and ip address recording, so it's mostly a hitcounter for me to watch through the day.

I've used bulma (http://bulma.io/) as a css 'framework', which has been nice, though I haven't got the task list looking nice on a mobile yet.

Feedback, complaints, showers of praise, disinterested sighs, I'm really interested in anything you've got :)




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