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This idea really resonates. Like others have mentioned, there's a unique power to a physical artifact that a digital to-do list just can't replicate. I went dow
by lionpixel 1y ago
This idea really resonates. Like others have mentioned, there's a unique power to a physical artifact that a digital to-do list just can't replicate.
I went down this exact rabbit hole a while back, trying to bridge the gap between my digital planning and physical, actionable "tickets." The setup part can be a bit of a pain, especially getting a printer reliably online and talking to it from different apps and services.
This is the exact problem I built Printercow¹ to solve (author here!). It's a small service that lets you turn any thermal printer into a networked API endpoint with a one-line install command on a Raspberry Pi. The idea is to handle all the backend plumbing so you can focus on the fun part—triggering prints from Zapier, a script, or your own app to create a system just like the author's.
Happy to answer any questions about the setup!
(¹) https://printercow.com https://printercow.com
- swah 1y agoSee also https://github.com/NaitLee/Cat-Printer https://github.com/NaitLee/Cat-Printer
- fivestones 1y agoThis looks great! But it says it’s FOSS and that I can host it myself, but the link to GitHub in the docs doesn’t show any repos. Is it somewhere else?
- akouri 1y ago+1 - anybody happen to have a fork?