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apvlv – document viewer

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

apvlv is a PDF/EPUB/TXT/FB2/MOBI/CBZ/HTML …viewer and it behaves like the Vim text editor.

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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 – simple notepad

September 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Janus is a simple native Linux notepad meant for text editing. It supports UTF-8 and binary data.

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Text Editor

xvi – portable multi-file text editor

September 19, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

xvi is a portable multi-window version of the UNIX editor ‘vi’, derived from “STEVIE” in the 1980s.

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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. Features include: 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 is a tool to graph your progress in writing a novel. You enter your wordcount and it updates a graph showing you how much progress you have made. It also shows you how far you are through your daily

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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, feature-rich ebook reader

July 27, 2025 Steve Emms Documents

Readest is an open-source ebook reader designed for immersive and deep reading experiences.

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Foreign Languages

9 Best Free and Open Source Translators

July 26, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

Translation is the process of reworking text from one language into another to maintain the original message and communication.

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PDF

fancy-cat – PDF reader for terminal emulators

July 22, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

fancy-cat is a PDF reader for terminal emulators using the Kitty image protocol.

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Document Management Systems

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document Processors

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Productivity, Roundup, Scientific

A document processor is a document preparation system. We recommend the best document processors.

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SQL

Sequeler is a native Linux SQL client built in Vala and Gtk

July 6, 2025 Steve Emms Database, Documents, GUI

Sequeler allows you to connect to your local and remote databases and write SQL in a handy text editor.

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Typesetting Tools

23 Essential Free and Open Source LaTeX Tools – typeset beautifully

June 24, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup, Scientific

LaTeX is a document preparation system and document markup language for high-quality typesetting. We feature the best LaTeX tools.

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Project Management

6 Best Free and Open Source Linux Project Management Software

June 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Roundup

Project management tools encompass many different types of software such as scheduling, resource allocation, collaboration software, quality management, and cost control / budget management.

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