Productivity - Tag - vo.rs

Tandoor: When Your Recipe Collection Outgrows Browser Bookmarks

Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:00:00 +0000

My recipe “system” used to be a browser folder with 240-odd bookmarks, a Notes app full of half-typed ingredient lists, and a recurring Sunday-evening ritual of squinting at my phone in the supermarket trying to remember whether I needed one tin of chickpeas or three. It worked, in the sense that a shopping trolley with a wonky wheel works. It got me there, mostly, with some swearing.

Tandoor is what I replaced all of that with, and a year in I’m not going back.

Linkwarden: Self-Hosted Bookmarking for the Tab Hoarder

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000

I have a confession that will surprise nobody who has ever borrowed my laptop: my browser at any given moment is holding somewhere north of two hundred open tabs. Each one is a promise to myself — “I’ll read this later” — and each one is a lie. Worse, the tabs I do eventually bookmark have a nasty habit of rotting. I click through six months later and find a 404, a parked domain, or a “this article has been removed” notice. The thing I wanted to keep is gone, and all my bookmark preserved was the gravestone.

Paperless-ngx: A Paperless Office That Actually Works

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 09:00:00 +0000

I have owned three filing cabinets in my life. Each one followed the same arc: pristine and hopeful for a fortnight, then a graveyard of bank statements I will never read, slowly fossilising under a pile of takeaway menus. The promise of the “paperless office” was sold to me decades ago and never delivered, because the missing piece was never the scanner. It was knowing where anything went afterwards.

Paperless-ngx is the piece that was missing. It is the first system I have used that turns a heap of scanned PDFs into something I can actually search, and it has quietly replaced every filing cabinet, shoebox, and “important_FINAL_v2.pdf” folder I once relied on.

Mealie: A Self-Hosted Recipe Manager for People Who Actually Cook

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 09:00:00 +0000

I have a confession. For years my recipe collection was a chaotic sprawl of browser bookmarks, screenshots, a Google Doc nobody could find, and three different paper notebooks with the handwriting of a doctor having a stroke. Every time I wanted to cook something I’d dig up the original blog post, scroll past 1,400 words about the author’s grandmother in Tuscany, dodge a video ad that started playing on its own, and then finally reach the bit telling me how much flour to use.

Rallly: Self-Hosted Scheduling Without Doodle's Data Harvesting

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:00:00 +0000

There is a special kind of dread that comes from trying to pin six people down to a single evening. Reply-all threads spiral, someone proposes a date three others have already vetoed, and eventually somebody mutters the word “Doodle”. And Doodle does work. It also works very hard at watching everyone who clicks your link, sprinkling ad-tech all over a page whose entire job is to collect your friends’ availability and, increasingly, their attention. I host my own instead. The tool is called Rallly, and it is one of the few self-hosted things I actually recommend without a long list of caveats.