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Category: Productivity

Calculators

26 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical Calculators

November 4, 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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Time tracking

27 Sparkling Free and Open Source CLI Linux Time Trackers

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

All of the time trackers featured in this roundup are console applications, using a command-line interface.

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Business Intelligence

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Business Intelligence Software

November 1, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Office, Productivity, Roundup

A business intelligence platform includes three layers: a database layer, a business intelligence layer, and an analytics/performance management layer. Here’s our roundup of the best business intelligence software.

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Diary

9 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software

October 29, 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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Time tracking

28 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Time Tracking Software

October 29, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Time tracking software is a type of computer software that records time spent on tasks. This category of software can enable users to run billing reports, and prepare invoices for clients.

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Eye Care Software

Eye Care: Best Free Linux Software to Look after your Eyes

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Scientific

Look after your eyes with this free and open source software.

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Stopwatch

fokus – focus timer and stopwatch

October 23, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

fokus is a minimalist terminal‐based focus timer and stopwatch with daily logging.

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Yesser Calculator – extensible calculator

October 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Yesser Calculator is an extensible calculator app made using .NET and Avalonia.

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fortbite – command-line calculator

October 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fortbite is a command-line calculator written in Fortran that handles arbitrary precision arithmetic, complex numbers, and matrices.

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Task Manager

Vikunja – to-do app to organize your life

October 17, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Vikunja is billed as the to-do app to organize your life. It’s written in the Go language.

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ebook reader

3 Free and Open Source CLI ebook Readers

October 13, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Documents, Productivity, Roundup, Software

This article showcases CLI ebook readers for Linux. We only feature free and open source software here.

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Pomodorolm – simple time tracker

October 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Pomodorolm is a simple, good looking and configurable pomodoro tracker with tray icon. It’s written in Elm and Rust.

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File Managers

15 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Linux File Managers

October 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Web Apps

A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users manage their files.

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Flashcards

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Flashcard Software

October 9, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility.

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Diary

Caps-Log – terminal-based journaling tool

October 5, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Caps-Log (Captain’s Log) is a small, terminal-based journaling tool written in C++ and published under the MIT License.

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Valot – modern time tracking application

October 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Valot is designed for developers, freelancers, and professionals who need to track their work time efficiently.

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Task Manager

Todo TUI – Vim-like TUI that honors the simplicity of todo.txt

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Todo TUI lets you navigate with intuitive, familiar keybindings (j, k, etc.)

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Task Manager

Judo – terminal-based todo list application

October 4, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Judo is a simple TUI for managing todo lists. You can create multiple lists, add items to them, mark items as complete, and delete items.

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Task Manager

VIT – Visual Interactive Taskwarrior

September 30, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

VIT (Visual Interactive Taskwarrior) is a lightweight, curses-based front end for Taskwarrior

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Content Control Software

Sandstorm – self-hostable web productivity suite

September 27, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It’s implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.

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