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Text Editor

moe – command-line editor inspired by Vim

October 2, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

moe is a command line based editor inspired by Vim written in Nim.

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Text Editor

pyvim – terminal Vim implementation using prompt_toolkit

September 21, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

pyvim is a Python-based Vim-like terminal editor with split windows, tab pages, Pygments highlighting and Python code assistance.

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PDF

apvlv – Vim-like graphical document viewer

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

apvlv is a Vim-like graphical document viewer for Linux supporting PDF, EPUB, TXT, FB2, MOBI, CBZ and HTML with keyboard-driven control.

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Hex Editor

hx – hex editor for the terminal

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

hx is a hex editor using plain C and POSIX libs. The project’s code is somewhat influenced by the kilo project.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Janus – native Linux text and binary editor

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Janus is a native Linux notepad with UTF-8 and binary editing, optional syntax highlighting, printing and straightforward text editing.

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Text Editor

xvi – portable multi-window vi-compatible text editor

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

xvi is a small portable vi-style editor with multiple text windows, file switching and a familiar command-driven editing interface.

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Text Editor

Looksyk – simple personal knowledge platform

September 14, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Looksyk is a simple personal knowledge platform with a focus on clean markdown files, simple queries and a journal. This is free and open source software. Key Features Local Storage: Your information is always exclusively in Markdown files (currently in

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Text Editor

NovProg – graph your progress in writing a novel

September 12, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

NovProg tracks daily and total word counts for novels, charting writing progress against goals in a desktop application for Linux.

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Files

doxx – terminal-native document viewer for Word files

August 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

doxx is a fast, terminal-native document viewer for Word files. View, search, and export .docx documents without leaving your command line.

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Documentation

Krafna – Obsidion dataview plugin-like tool for command line

August 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

Krafna is a terminal-based alternative to Obsidian’s Dataview plugin, allowing you to query your Markdown files using standard SQL syntax.

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Files

render – command line reader offering better readability of web pages

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

reader is a lightweight tool offering better readability of web pages on the CLI. It’s written in the Go language.

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Files

nbpreview – terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks

August 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

nbpreview is a terminal viewer for Jupyter notebooks. It’s like cat for ipynb files. It’s written in Python.

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Files

Vivify – brings your files to life in the browser

August 12, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Vivify brings your files to life in the browser. Vivify is primarily made to render Markdown and Jupyter Notebooks.

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Files

Buffer – embrace ephemeral text

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Productivity

Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don’t need keeping. It’s written in Rust.

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Notes

Noteworthy – Markdown notes app

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Noteworthy is billed as a modern, fast, and version-controlled Markdown notes app.

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ebook reader

Readest – modern cross-platform eBook reader

July 27, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Readest is a modern Linux eBook reader with multi-format support, annotations, library management, syncing, TTS and accessibility tools.

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PDF

fancy-cat – PDF reader for terminal emulators

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

fancy-cat displays PDF files in compatible terminal emulators with keyboard navigation, dark mode, hot reloading and configurable commands.

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SQL

Sequeler – native Linux SQL client

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents, GUI

Sequeler is a native Linux SQL client for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB and SQLite with saved connections, SQL editing and results.

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Text Editor

Katvan is an editor for Typst files

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Katvan is a bare-bones editor for the Typst typesetting system, designed for working with documents whose primary language is written from right to left.

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Foreign Languages

Klaro is a simple and fast translation app

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Klaro is a simple and fast translation app for KDE Plasma that helps you translate text between different languages.

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