"All enterprise software competes with Excel. All productivity software competes...

bigiain · on June 13, 2019

R and Python will not replace Excel until they "correctly" transform gene names into dates or floating point numbers...

https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/scientific-expe...

How can we have reproducibility in scientific research if we don't all make the same errors?

asdff · on June 13, 2019

Don't blame excel for people being ignorant on number formatting. It's front and center in the ribbon menu.

scarejunba · on June 12, 2019

All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper?

reaperducer · on June 13, 2019

All scheduling software competes with a pen and a piece of paper?

According to the Wall Street Journal, yes.

The Trendy New Way to Organize Your Schedule: A Paper Planner https://apple.news/AMN1W-MtTRCecQ-qIeFUQSQ

smsm42 · on June 13, 2019

And a corkboard, yes. Or maybe a big wall calendar.

duxup · on June 12, 2019

The old clocking in system with a card and stamp from the clock we're efficient and everyone understood how it worked.

dragonwriter · on June 13, 2019

That's minimal time tracking, not scheduling. It's the difference between retrospective and prospective.

hef19898 · on June 13, 2019

Kanban systems with real physical cards work pretty well. And you they are way more resilient than digital stuff.

duxup · on June 13, 2019

Good point.

dragonwriter · on June 13, 2019

Scheduling is a subset of productivity, and, IME, not an exception to the rule about productivity software and Excel.

toomuchtodo · on June 12, 2019

Or a notebook.

NicoJuicy · on June 13, 2019

Thah, I dogfeed http://handlr.sapico.me for not emailing it to myselve.

It seems to work :p

Terretta · on June 13, 2019

Note, sapico.me (without www) is a bare Windows Server welcome page. Could redirect it to www so Google search bot isn’t confused about what’s at sapico.me.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/711755-need-to-redire...

NicoJuicy · on June 14, 2019

Well, my start page isn't even mobile friendly. I don't actually bring in clients though the web page, don't need it actually.

It's just there, a refactored version ( yekyll) is already in the works