Video games inspire great UX (2019)

Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by iamagurgle on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:02AM (#49800595)

I didn't read the entire article but the headline reminds me of a programme I use: Treesheets. It's a spreadsheet/note taking app made by a person in the games industry, and I find it really fun to use.

link: https://strlen.com/treesheets/

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Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by leephillips on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:26AM (#49800942)

That looks like an interesting program. I can hardly believe I’d never heard of it before—and it’s in the Debian repository, too.

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Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by iamagurgle on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:31PM (#49880594)

Yeah it doesn't really replace a standard text based programme (like zimwiki) but I keep it around because it's so fun!

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Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by rchase on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:05PM (#49810788)

wow. thank-you. i'd never heard of it, and it is a thing of beauty.

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Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by dang on Friday September 25, 2026 @04:23PM (#49849448)

A few past discussions:

TreeSheets: Free Form Data Organizer (Hierarchical Spreadsheet) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654219 - April 2026 (1 comment)

TreeSheets: Open Source Free Form Data Organizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34184993 - Dec 2022 (55 comments)

Treesheets: cross-platform, free-form data organizer app - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27614912 - June 2021 (90 comments)

TreeSheets: Free Form Data Organizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15057392 - Aug 2017 (58 comments)

TreeSheets: Free-Form Data Organizer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11247372 - March 2016 (28 comments)

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Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by Forgeties79 on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:16PM (#49850046)

I swear I’m having déjà vu. Didn’t this exact post go up on HN like 2 days ago and somebody mentioned tree links as one of the top comments?

this is not me being all “OH MY GOD REPOST” I’m just scratching my head because I swear I saw this exact thread the other day ha

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Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by frankmatranga on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:34PM (#49850284)

I believe HN revives posts and rewrites the timestamps of comments sometimes to give them another chance of visibility

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Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by Forgeties79 on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:05PM (#49851188)

That would explain it!

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Re:Video games inspire great UX (2019) by kragen on Saturday September 26, 2026 @12:41PM (#49858203)

I could be wrong, but I think he wrote Treesheets before he was "in the games industry" (but after he wrote Cube!).

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