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Automation

xdotool – fake keyboard/mouse input, window management

March 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

xdotool lets you simulate keyboard input and mouse activity, move and resize windows, etc. It does this using X11’s XTEST extension.

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Files

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Google Files

February 22, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Files is a file management app developed by Google for file browsing, media consumption, storage clean-up and offline file transfer. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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Notes

Tangent – clean and powerful notes app

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Tangent is designed to let you write the way you think. Your thoughts are connected; Tangent lets you link to existing notes and make new ones with ease.

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multiClock – track the time around the world

February 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity, Reviews

multiClock is software that lets you track the current time in major financial centres around the globe.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Counters – keep track of anything

February 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Counters is a simple counting application that lets you create counters to keep track of anything you want.

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Linux

mlterm – multi lingual terminal emulator

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Mlterm is a multilingual terminal emulator on X11. It’s written in C.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Clock

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Windows Clock is a time management app offering alarms, world clocks, timers, a stopwatch, and focus sessions.

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Time tracking

Flowkeeper – Pomodoro Technique desktop timer

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Flowkeeper is a Pomodoro Technique desktop timer for power users. It is a simple tool, which focuses on doing one thing well.

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spigot – command-line exact real calculator

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

spigot is a command-line streaming exact real calculator. It’s written in the C++ programming language.

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MCalc – calculator for performing simple mathematical operations

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

MCalc is a calculator for performing simple mathematical operations in all existing number systems.

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RCalc – RPN calculator

January 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

RCalc is an RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator. It aims to be quick to open and use, and easy to extend

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ec – RPN calculator

January 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

ec is a useful RPN calculator with array operations and quotations.

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030-wait

Tmux Pomodoro Plus – incorporate the Pomodoro technique

January 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Tmux Pomodoro Plus is software which incorporates the Pomodoro technique into your tmux setup.

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Stopwatch

Timet – time tracking gem with time reports

January 22, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Timet is a command-line tool designed to track your activities by recording the time spent on each task.

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Reading

read-quickly – read plain-text files in blazing speed

January 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

read-quickly is a terminal-based program that lets you read plain-text files in blazing speed.

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044-time management

timer-cli – countdown timer

January 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

timer-cli is a very simple Python CLI tool to start a countdown timer.

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Reading

tspreed – terminal-based RSVP speed reader

January 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

tspreed is a terminal-based RSVP speed reader with Spritz-like functionality written in POSIX-compliant shell.

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030-wait

timr – TUI to organize your time

January 20, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

timr is a TUI to organize your time: Pomodoro, Countdown, Timer.

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xcalc – scientific calculator

January 19, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

xcalc is a simple scientific calculator that can emulate a TI-30 or an HP-10C.

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Stopwatch

dijo – habit tracker

January 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

dijo is a habit tracker.It is curses-based. dijo is scriptable, hook it up with external programs to track events.

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