Everything, the only thing that makes Windows usable.
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LocalSend is open-source and great for file transfer (or even just sending text) between my devices.
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https://logseq.com/ a personal knowledge base with markdown and has a whiteboard feature. I live in this program now. From daily little notes and reminders to full on script writing. It's a little clunky but it works with my brain. Other similar programs are notion, obsidian and anytype.
I can second logseq but it has a bit of a steep learning curve. Not impossible but you have to learn how logseq wants you to use their software and then it becomes powerful.
What's your take on how they want you to use their software? I throw down bullet points in the journal, tag them with big overarching themes, and link to old journal entries sometimes. Am I missing something important?
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SimpleX has file sharing too now, it's great :)
Sadly limited to 1gb afaik
Use PeaZip (which is better than 7-ZIP because it's cross-platform) to split large files into as many smaller chunks as you'd like.
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URLCheck on Android. Displays a popup on opening links allowing editing the URL before opening (with such features as removing chosen parameters with one button), applying transformations like Shitter→Nitter, http→https, sharing the URL, copying and selecting the application to open the URL in. Oh, and if you decide to open in Firefox or Fennec, you have the option to open in the incognito mode. Can't imagine using Android without it now. Absolute gamechanger
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File converter in the context menu. Handles a lot of common formats, batch converting, nondestructive, and the presets are all customizable. https://file-converter.io/
Ear Trumpet - Replace window audio button with one that gives you per app, and device control. https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet
DevToys. It's an awesome cross-platform swiss army knife for developers. It's got most of the little tools that you would look up online.
Formatters, encoding/decoding, validators etc.
I really love it!
It's an android app that uses your display to make a "glow" to light a room rather than using the camera flash like a torch.
It's in F-Droid.
Obviously the camera flash is more powerful if you're outside or whatever, but using the display this way is way better inside. That tiny little dazzling pin-prick of light is just... unpleasant.
With candle you can also set whatever color you like. Red is nice to avoid waking people or ruining night vision.
I discovered this app when we had twins and waking up to nurse them overnight. Gonna sound weird if you've not been through this but basically they won't really wake up they make a gentle sooky noise, and you put a bottle or boob in their mouth and they suckle while they sleep. If you turn a light on they're gonna wake up which is sub-optimal.
This is the first app in this thread that made me go "I need this!" and immediately downloaded it!
Thanks!
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ncdu, it's a pretty decent utility for interactively exploring your rectum whilst traversing the deep hierarchical layers of your soul
The smallest quickest launcher for Android
Start programs from your new home screen by typing in a few letters.
The app adapts to how you use it, making finding what you want even faster.
Flashbang warning for anyone following that link.
If any of you still aren't using YT Revanced... why?! So yeah, that one, cause God knows my limit for insipid and repetitive ads is extremely small.
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For Windows users, I want to recommend PowerToys: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
The "toys" that I use a lot are: PowerToys Awake: to keep my laptop awake even if I'm away from keyboard for a while.
Fancy Zones: to create my own layout of windows, especially on the ultra-wide monitor I have at work, it's easy to have 3 smaller windows next to each other according to my layout.
Mouse Utilities, I often can't find my mouse cursor, just pressing a hotkey will literally spotlight the cursor.
Quick Accent, especially for multi-lingual people this is really handy, though it takes a bit to get used to its working.
I use fancy zones, and also the one that finds your mouse cursor as I'm always losing it, and the always on top mode for when I don't want a teams call to vanish while I do something else
Be like me, just make your mouse cursor neon green and huge.
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Greenshot is free, open-source, and the built-in image editor is perfect (for my use-case, ymmv). ShareX is also FOSS but more well-known.
The last version on the website is from 2017. I wonder what's going on? The repo seems to be alive. I used it for years but switched recently to ShareX since Greenshot GUI can't really handle high screen resolution
Edit: Just checked the Blog. They didn't had time in the last years but it seems to pick up speed again now. A new version is coming.
Yeah, it's been solid/stable but no new developments until 1.3 is coming. You can download the pre-release version if you want to try it again, because that version has zoom options. I imagine that's what you missed, unless you meant something else with older versions not handling high res well
Another vote for Greenshot, I use it nearly daily for my work.
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Qalculate is a fancy calculator available for Linux, MacOS and Windows. I use it for calculations that involve unit conversions, but it can do much more.
And Android!!
Oh that’s a good point. Totally missed that one. Seems that there’s also a webapp for other platforms.
I acutally use Qalculate as well when I have to use my Windows laptop
Fuck Microsoft for not bothering to improve on the calculator app for decades.
Best of all, you can also install it using winget. Yes, package management through the cmd in Windows. Well, as long as you’re the admin of that computer. Don’t expect this to work with all corporate laptops.
They have improved. You can do unit conversions, great binary/hex/oct calculation/visualization, do graphing, calculate dates. It honestly is very good.
You can do unit conversions, great binary/hex/oct calculation
Ok you're actually right about those improvements👍 and yeah those were actually really handy.
Are you sure it can do visualization, graphing, and dates? Is this on W11? I'm not on my computer atm but I don't remember those functions/features.
Yeah this is on win11. I am not 100% sure if graphing works on win10 as well, but i think so :)
Bulk Rename Utility for Windows:
PowerToys has something like this roo
dired
This is so powerful, I use it all the time.
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