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Category: Productivity

Typing

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Typing Tutors

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Office, Productivity, Roundup

Typing tutor software teaches fast and accurate typing through a system of informative lessons and progress tracking.

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Sums is a postfix calculator designed for quick calculations

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Sums is a postfix calculator designed for quick calculations and focused on simplicity.

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Sticky Notes

12 Best Free and Open Source Sticky Note Applications

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A sticky note (often known as a Post-it Note) is a small piece of paper with a strip of glue on its back. Here’s our verdict.

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Calculators

22 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical Calculators

June 7, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a desktop calculator. We cover the best graphical tools.

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Diary

8 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software

June 6, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. Free and open source software only.

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Diary

Simple Diary is a simple and lightweight app

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Simple Diary saves entries in standard Markdown. There’s support for images, and a responsive design.

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Automation

5 Best Free and Open Source Text Expander Tools

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

We are always looking for utilities that improve our productivity. One way to improve your workflow is to enhance your typing experience.

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Automation

Compress is text compression for generating keyboard expansions

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Compress is a tool for automatically creating typing shortcuts from a corpus of your own writing.

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Automation

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso created with Rust and Iced.

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Writing Tools

Writernote takes notes in an intelligent way

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Writernote allows you to take notes in an intelligent way. Record audio as you write, and listen to it again seeing what you have written.

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