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Business Intelligence

Briefer – collaborative data workspace for teams

May 21, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Briefer is a collaborative data workspace for teams that want to analyse, present, and share data from a single web application.

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Document Management Systems

Papermerge – document management for scanned files

May 21, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Web Apps

Papermerge organises scanned documents with OCR, full-text search, custom metadata, page management, versioning and shared folders.

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Business Intelligence

Evidence – code-based business intelligence and reporting

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Evidence builds interactive business reports and dashboards from SQL and Markdown, with charts, templated pages and reusable components.

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Document Management Systems

Papra – simple document archiving platform

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Web Apps

Papra provides a simple document archive with full-text search, text extraction, automatic tagging, custom properties and secure sharing.

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Lightdash – developer-friendly business intelligence platform

May 20, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

Lightdash is a developer-friendly business intelligence platform built around semantic modelling, dashboards, dbt, and analytics as code.

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ebook reader

14 Best Free and Open Source GUI ebook Readers

May 10, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Roundup

An electronic book (ebook) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices.

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novelibre – novel organizer for writers

May 8, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

novelibre is a novel organizer for writers who use LibreOffice or OpenOffice.

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Writing Tools

WareWoolf – minimalist novel-writing system

May 8, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

WareWoolf is a minimalist novel-writing system and rich text editor built specifically for fiction writing.

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Hex Editor

XVI – hex editor using ncurses

May 5, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

xvi is a hex editor that uses an ncurses-based interface and is designed for interactive binary file editing from the console.

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Hex Editor

hexcurse-ng – ncurses-based console hex editor

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents

hexcurse-ng is an ncurses-based console hex editor for working with binary data in a terminal.

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Hex Editor

Hexit – minimalistic hex editor

May 4, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

Hexit is a terminal-based hex editor written in C++ for inspecting and editing binary data from a text user interface.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Lite XL – lightweight extensible text editor

May 3, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Lite XL is a fast extensible text editor with multiple cursors, fuzzy commands, project search, regex find and replace, plugins and themes.

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Best Free and Open Source Compact Editors

Notepad Next – cross-platform Notepad++-style editor

May 2, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Notepad Next brings a Notepad++-style workflow to Linux with workspaces, session recovery, search tools and custom keyboard shortcuts.

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Files

Cedilla – Markdown text editor for the COSMIC desktop

April 16, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Cedilla provides a writing environment for plain text and Markdown, aimed at note-taking, drafting documentation, and writing blog posts

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Foreign Languages

LocalTranslate – machine translation locally using Firefox translation models

April 13, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Scientific

LocalTranslate is a desktop application for Linux that performs machine translation locally using Firefox translation models.

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Hex Editor

HexMe – hex editor

April 7, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, TUI

HexMe is a terminal-based hex editor written in C++ that uses the Curses library for its text user interface.

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Gem of the Week

PaddleOCR – OCR and document-parsing toolkit

April 6, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Reviews

PaddleOCR is an open-source OCR and document-parsing toolkit. It’s used to extract text and document structure from images and PDFs.

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Typesetting Tools

TexLab – cross-platform implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Scientific

TexLab is a cross-platform implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX.

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Typesetting Tools

Tectonic – modernised, self-contained TeX and LaTeX engine

April 5, 2026 Steve Emms Documents, Scientific

Tectonic is a modernised, self-contained TeX and LaTeX engine powered by XeTeX and TeX Live.

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Typesetting Tools

SILE – typesetting system for Linux

March 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Documents

SILE (Simon’s Improved Layout Engine) is a modern typesetting system designed for producing high-quality printed documents.

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