QuickLook for Windows. Coming from a Mac this thing is super useful to replicate that functionality on Windows.
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Small apps available on Flathub that have only one purpose
Latest examples:
- Trilium Notes: note-taking
- Foliate: .epub reader
- Shortwave: radio player
My brain works in a way that 1 software = 1 single and unique thing, and you shouldn't have to go through a roundabout way to do that thing.
DGT GTD is an old Android app for task tracking. It is ugly and incredibly useful. Lives entirely in the phone, no cloud subscription, no paid plans, nothing.
I have used it forever. There is no good alternative.
The current app "Chaos Control" is a close contender, but pricey and cloud connected.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dg.gtd.android.lite
Apparently many don't know libre office is thing and free. Seeing people ask for goggle doc alternative amd all they need is a word processor.
OmniDiskSweeper. Forget apps that help manage disk space with some ugly graph that's difficult to understand. This just lists files and directories with the heaviest / most space used from top to bottom in a file tree. Essential. Here's what it looks like:
- Converter Now: An all-in-one convert everything to everything app.
- Light Meter: Calculate light levels and color temps for photography and videography.
- Stellarium: Honestly don't know how "well known" it might be. But it's fun to point at stars and planets.
I'm surprised how many people don't know about a Linux utility called "fuck". When you make a mistake on the command line and get an error, you just type "fuck" and it looks at what happened and suggests a fix. If this looks correct - and it almost always is - you just hit Enter and it types that in for you. Best thing ever!
ClickBook - dunno if it's even available anymore, but like 20 years ago it was either a standalone or add-on that formatted Word docs for printing. I think it cost $35. You could lay out say a tri-fold brochure or a folded-in-half and stapled booklet and it would rotate, combine and print the pages in the correct order. My wife and I used it endlessly to produce publications for our kids' school. If your printer could only print on one side, there was a quick setup procedure that would would figure out how you should rotate or flip the stack of pages to do the second side. I haven't used Word in years so for all I know it might have these capabilities natively now, but in its time ClickBook was probably the most worth-it program I ever bought.
Can you alter the header only on page 6? Or rotate pages 3 and 5? Because that's the kind of wizardry that Microsoft refuses to implement in Word.
I never tried to rotate individual pages or do special headers, but I don't know - it had many features I didn't use.
Pixelorama, a good, open-source pixel art program
Freedom - https://freedom.to/
A very powerful cross platform website/app blocker with a lifetime membership option. Works well for blocking multiple fediverse domains.
sl is a classic command line program for something harmlessly pointless
calibre for digital library software (cataloging books/docs/articles)
Comic book reader, it's a cbz/CBR comic book archive reader that tries to do the panel/smart auto zoom that used to be a part of comixology until Amazon bought it to kill it as competition to their shitty books app
I donated to calibre, makes my eBook viable.
A windows app that shows you the space things are taking up on your computer so you can easily delete them. Usually helps me clear out a ton of space.
ncdu in Linux
Wiztree and Treesize are both much faster.
Windirstat is still relevant... But slow.
The same disk space visualisation, on Linux, can be shown with:
(Available from your distro package-manager)
I prefer WizTree. It'll show you space usage, but you can also search for files, and it's incredibly fast.
It's also much faster
Edit: you said that already lol sorry
I’ll have to give it a try one day.
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