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Text Editor

MerMark Editor – Markdown editor with Mermaid diagram support

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

MerMark Editor combines the simplicity of Markdown with the power of Mermaid diagrams in a beautiful, native desktop application.

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Presentation Software roundup

Kyma – terminal-based presentation tool

February 20, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Kyma is a terminal-based presentation tool that creates beautiful presentations from markdown files with smooth animated transitions.

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Files

csview – csv viewer

February 16, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

csview is a high performance csv viewer with cjk/emoji support.

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Files

batdoc – cat for Office documents and PDFs

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

batdoc dumps .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .pptx, and .pdf files to your terminal as markdown.

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Text Editor

sled – simple terminal editor with insert-first workflow

February 15, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

sled is a small terminal text editor with insert-first operation, command and selection modes, keyboard shortcuts and source-level settings.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

v2 – local-first rich-text editor with versioning

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

v2 is a local-first rich-text editor built around portable document formats, version history, structured diffs and Pandoc interoperability.

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Bookmark manager

Libro – terminal based book tracking tool

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, TUI

Libro is a terminal-based tool to track your reading history, with your data stored locally in a SQLite database.

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Database

Goose – database migration tool

February 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

Goose is a database migration tool. Both a CLI and a library. Manage your database schema by creating incremental SQL changes or Go functions.

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Text Editor

pnana – modern terminal text editor

February 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pnana is a modern terminal text editor built with FTXUI, inspired by Nano, Micro, and Sublime Text.

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ebook reader

Lue – terminal eBook reader with text-to-speech

February 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Lue is a terminal eBook Reader with audiobook-quality Text-to-Speech.

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PDF

miro – native PDF viewer with configurable keybindings

January 30, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

miro is a PDF viewer with Vim-style navigation, dark mode, document search, bookmarks, annotations and support for multiple tabs.

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Files

hygg – Vim-inspired document reader for the terminal

January 29, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hygg is a keyboard-driven document reader for PDF, EPUB and other formats with persistent bookmarks, document search and optional syncing.

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Reference Management

Gorae – terminal-based document and bibliography manager

January 22, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Gorae is a terminal document librarian for PDFs, EPUBs and Markdown with full-text search, tags, backlinks, previews and optional AI chat.

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SQL

sqlfmt – SQL formatter

January 21, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Database, Documents

sqlfmt formats your dbt SQL files. It is similar in nature to black, gofmt, and rustfmt (but for SQL).

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PDF

LEKTRA – configurable document and image viewer

January 19, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

LEKTRA is a configurable document and image viewer with PDF annotations, keyboard navigation, split views, scripting and ebook support.

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Text Editor

aretext – minimalist terminal editor with Vim key bindings

January 17, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

aretext is a minimalist terminal text editor offering Vim-compatible modes, command navigation, project configuration and CLI integration.

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Files

BigEdit – streaming TUI editor

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

BigEdit is a streaming TUI editor for very large files. Edit multi-gigabyte files without loading them into memory.

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Text Editor

jrnlc – plain-text terminal journal

January 10, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

jrnlc is a personal project built to be simple, fast, and predictable. It stores journal entries in a plain-text file

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Hex Editor

bvi – hex editor

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

bvi is a vi-style terminal hex editor for binary files with familiar navigation, editing commands and a companion read-only viewer.

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Files

Ekphos – terminal-based research tool

January 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Ekphos is a lightweight, fast, terminal-based markdown research tool built with Rust.

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