Turn the Raspberry Pi 4 into a low power writing machine. Capture thoughts, ideas, to-do lists, and lots more with these notes applications.
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Category: Productivity
Excellent Utilities: Ulauncher – Sublime application launcher for Linux
Ulauncher is a fast application launcher for Linux. It’s is written in Python, using GTK+. It’s free and open source software.
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Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software
Tusk is billed as a feature-laden, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app used by people in more than 140 countries. Let’s put it this application through its paces, and why it warrants inclusion in our “Excellent Utilities” series.
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Excellent Utilities: mdless – formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files
mdless is a utility that provides a formatted and highlighted view of Markdown files in a console. The software is free and open source.
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Excellent Utilities: Abricotine – open source Markdown editor
Abricotine is an open source, cross-platform Markdown editor built for the desktop with inline preview functionality.
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Real Linux Desktop Experience with X410 and WSL?
X410 is an X Window server for Windows 10. When you want to use X Window GUI apps on remote servers, simply run X410 and connect to your server via SSH with X11 forwarding. Here’s our review of X410 using ‘The Windows Subsystem for Linux’.
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Wakeup – customizable and extensible talking alarm clock
Wakeup is an open source fully customizable and extensible talking alarm clock.
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Nitro Tasks – task management software
Nitro is software which makes tasks management extremely easy and slick.The application is fast, easy to use.
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Easystroke – gesture-recognition software
Easystroke is a free and open source gesture-recognition application which works with all of your applications.
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Todo.txt – task management software
Todo.txt is a simple, command-line based task management tool for Linux. It consists of a small bash script and a configuration file.
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GeeTeeDee – task management software
GeeTeeDee is an attractive, lightweight, easy to use and effective task management software.
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ThinkingRock – collect and process your thoughts
Thinking Rock is a Java based software application for collecting and processing your thoughts following the GTD methodology.
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Wunderlist – get stuff done with task management and list making
Wunderlist is a cross platform application that can be used for task management and list making.
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6 Best Free Linux Office Software
Linux has a good selection of desktop business software that can help to enhance an organisation’s efficiency and adaptability to change. To provide an insight into the quality of software available, we have compiled a list of 6 of the best free office software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for both the desktop corporate user and home user.
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Katapult – KDE software
Katapult is a KDE application that provides users with faster and easier access to their applications, bookmarks, and more.
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5 Excellent Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Reader DC
Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. The format includes a subset of the PostScript page description programming language, a font-embedding system, and a structural storage system.
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Essential Utilities to Boost Productivity
Linux offers a vast collection of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the obvious to the bizarre. It is the quality and selection of these tools that help Linux stand out as a productive environment. A good utility cooperates with other applications, integrating seamlessly.
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7 More of the Best Free Linux Task Management Tools
Task management tools are a branch of computer software which enable users to create a list of tasks to be completed. This list is sometimes known as a to-do list or things-to-do. For the purposes of this article, the term ‘task manager’ should not be confused with monitoring software which provides information about programs and processes running on a computer.
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OneNote Alternatives
OneNote is a proprietary computer software package for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It enables a user to capture what is important in their personal and professional life, captured by making notes, to-do lists, photos, audio clips, or videos. Information is stored in a non-linear form. OneNote is developed by the behemoth, Microsoft. Whilst the program is available for Android, it has not been ported to Linux.
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