Steve Emms, Author at LinuxLinks

zk – plain text note-taking assistant

zk is a command-line tool helping you to maintain a plain text Zettelkasten or personal wiki.

BlockPaint is a painting program that allows you to draw pixel graphics in the terminal using the mouse.

QLogExplorer is billed as an advanced tool for exploring log files.

PyBonsai is a Python script that generates procedural ASCII art trees in the comfort of your terminal.

September 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

Jot is a feature-stripped version of Obsidian focused on rapid note management through the terminal.

Chipmunk is a fast logfile viewer that can deal with huge logfiles (>10 GB).

Artem is a small cli program to easily convert images to ascii art, named after the Latin word for art.

ArTTY is billed as “Art for your TTY”.

Reor is a private AI personal knowledge management tool. Each note is saved as a Markdown file to a “vault” directory on your machine.

Folio is billed as a beautiful markdown note-taking app for GNOME. It’s a fork of Paper.

Anaconda is the installation program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and some other distributions.

Hide files within a JPG cover image using this steganography-like privacy tool.

Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases.

Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.