---
title: "How I’m a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-m-a-productive-programmer-with-a-memory-of-a-fruit-fly-i4btunalz
source_url: https://hynek.me/articles/productive-fruit-fly-programmer/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
author: "Hynek Schlawack"
published: 2022-09-20T08:53:37.866Z
updated: 2022-10-02T05:56:17.982Z
tags: ["python", "github", "golang", "html", "github-actions"]
reading_time: 14
upvotes: 24
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# How I’m a Productive Programmer With a Memory of a Fruit Fly

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · [@hynek](https://daily.dev/hynek) · 14 min read · 24 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Dash is a $30 Mac app3 (also available as part of Setapp subscriptions!), there’s the free Windows and Linux version called Zeal. Dash can replace documentation that you already keep locally on your computer for faster and/or offline access without doing anything special. Just package it up into the necessary directory structure, add an empty index, and fill out simple metadata.

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**@nittarab** · 2 upvotes

> This is very good article with a wise POV

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