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SQL

Blip – MySQL monitor

December 25, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Blip is a MySQL monitor: it collects and reports metrics from MySQL to monitoring platforms like Datadog.

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Files

mdq – select and render specific elements in a Markdown document

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mdq aims to do for Markdown what jq does for JSON: provide an easy way to zero in on specific parts of a document.

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Text Editor

ad – adaptable text editor

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

ad aims at combining a modal editing interface of likes of vi and kakoune with the approach to extensibility of Plan9’s Acme.

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Scan Tailor Advanced – interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

ScanTailor Advanced merges the features of the ScanTailor Featured and ScanTailor Enhanced versions, brings new ones and fixes.

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Screenwriting

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Script Writing Tools

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Roundup, Utilities

Script writing is the art and craft of writing scripts for the general public. The script can take the form of musicals, plays, novels, films, television programmes, and more.

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Text Editor

Story Architect – reinventing the screenwriting software

December 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Story Architect is a project created by the authors of an open source screenwriting tool Kit Scenarist.

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BPM

Manage your Business with a Complete Software Solution

December 17, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, System Software

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, here’s our recommended open source Business Process Management software

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Hex Editor

hexhog – configurable hex viewer and editor

December 16, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hexhog offers basic hex editing features for files, such as editing/deleting/inserting bytes, as well as selecting and copy/pasting bytes.

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Text Editor

mq – jq-like command-tool for Markdown processing

December 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

mq is a markdown processor that can filter markdown nodes by using jq-like syntax.

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PDF

lumus – read PDF files directly in your terminal

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Lumus is a command-line tool written in Go that allows you to read PDF files directly in your terminal.

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ebook reader

Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Sturm Reader

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Reviews, Software, Ubuntu Touch

Sturm Reader is an ebook reader for Linux tailored for Ubuntu Touch and portable devices.

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Typesetting Tools

KaTeX – fast math typesetting for the web

December 10, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

KaTeX is a fast, easy-to-use JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web.

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Files

csvi – terminal CSV editor

December 7, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

CSVI is a terminal-based CSV editor for UNIX-like systems (including Linux) and Windows.

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Search

Groonga – fulltext search engine and column store

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents

Groonga is a fulltext search engine and column store. It lets you write high-performance applications that requires fulltext search.

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Text Editor

Fresh – terminal text editor

December 6, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Fresh is a text editor engineered for speed. It delivers a near zero-latency experience, with text appearing instantly.

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SQL

data-peek – SQL client desktop application

December 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Built for developers who want to quickly peek at their data without the bloat. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server.

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PDF

Dangerzone – make PDFs safe

December 4, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Dangerzone takes potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF.

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Text Editor

MarkFlowy – modern and intelligent Markdown editor

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

MarkFlowy is billed as a modern and intelligent Markdown editor.

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PDF

tdf – TUI-based PDF viewer

December 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

tdf is a terminal-based PDF viewer. Designed to be performant, very responsive, and work well with even very large PDFs.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

facsimile – terminal text editor

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

facsimile is a terminal text editor written in Fortran. It offers VSCode-style keybindings.

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