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What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ? (lemmy.world)

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Why software do you use in your day-to-day computing which might not be well-known?

For me, there are ~~two~~ three things for personal information management:

for shopping receipts, notes and such, I write them down using vim on a small Gemini PDA with a keyboard. I transfer them via scp to a Raspberry Pi home server on from there to my main PC. Because it runs on Sailfish OS, it also runs calendar (via CalDav) and mail nicely - and without any FAANG server.

for things like manuals and stuff that is needed every few months ("what was just the number of our gas meter?" "what is the process to clean the dishwasher?") , I have a Gollum Wiki which I have running on my Laptop and the home Raspi server. This is a very simple web wiki which supports several markup languages (like Markdown, MediaWiki, reStructuredText, and Creole), and stores them via git. For me, it is perfect to organize personal information around the home.

for work, I use Zim wiki. It is very nice for collecting and organizing snippets of information.

oh, and I love Inkscape(a powerful vector drawing program), Xournal (a program you can write with a tablet on and annotate PDFs), and Shotwell (a simple photo manager). The great thing about Shotwell is that it supports nicely to filter your photos by quality - and doing that again and again with a critical eye makes you a better photographer.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

I really like logseq for my personal knowledge base, notes, and in general magaging things from to-dos, reading lists or personal projects.

The way you can structure information relationally, and espetially the "referenced from" preview that's on each page makes it really easy to get an overwiev of something, and the query language to make your of previews (such as, list every unfinished to-do with a deadline this week) makes it a pretty powerfull tool.

Figuring out syncing, especially on mobile, took some time, since it lives in a git repo, but there are some plugins for it on PC and on mobile I just use Termux with CLI git.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Streamlink (with mpv) for watching Twitch streams with all the benefits of a real media player (like hardware video decoding) and without the extra junk that occupies the Twitch web interface. It can also stream from YouTube and various other sites, record, and probably do a few more things that I haven't discovered yet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

I have to give a shout to starship.

I'm in the terminal all day, and with all the context switching from interruptions and meetings, having all the terminal context in my face really helps me settle back into the groove.

Sure there are dozens of other ways to do this, but a little config for a hundred different tools, all of which is customizable, makes it a pretty easy choice for me.

I'll give a second shout for tig. Ncurses git interface with vim-like navigation makes exploring, staging, stashing, etc. super easy and way faster than the CLI. Certainly not a replacement, but a magical enhancement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Draw.io is pretty great for diagrams.

Wiki.js can embed them too. Or YouTrack has an extension if you don't want to host it yourself its free for personal note taking.