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Show HN: MindWallet.com Insanely Organized Social Media

You can read this on MindWallet as intended here: http://www.mindwallet.com/?ItemKey=787541c7-0860-41ea-a21a-2322e06675c3&ParentID=48851752-ea96-40cc-bfb4-c8b07beba934

Hi HN. Here is my ‘project’: http://www.mindwallet.com

I’d love to get your feedback. I’m going to put a lot here about how I got here and where I’m going.

If you want a TLDR: I layered social media on top of the ‘todo list’ style app that has been popular recently because I think it is an amazing interface for do things beyond todo lists.

And here is a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk (I’m sorry about the hiss, poor audio quality, and lack of editing..I’d rather be coding...I’ll fix it eventually)

I consider myself to be a hacker. A fairly good one in fact. But lately something has been bugging me. The command line is making a comeback.

Recently I've been really intrigued by node.js. It has been a freaking pain to get an instance up and running. Joyent? make a curl command line post(That doesn't seem to work). Git? Issue yourself a key via command line. Finally I get into duo stack and then I get a guide with about 25 steps of command line commands.

It is 2011. WTF? Back around the turn of the century we used to have these things called installers that would keep people from having to do the same damn thing over and over and over. Or type. We create these great clickable symbols that were organized into hierarchies that were great for both teaching by way of layout and for getting things done. I think we called them menus.

I've done some digging around and found this insightful post about it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1407278

...but you know what? I call phooey. As much as it is great that you can mix and match at the command line, a picture is still worth a thousand words.

So tell me hn, what am I missing. Am I fooling my self calling my self a hacker if I use gitgui? (three click and I see exactly what is going where...why is typing 5-6 equivalent lines into the command line better?)