Microsoft Project is project management software product, developed and sold by Microsoft. Here’s our recommended free and open source alternatives.
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Category: Productivity
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft OneNote is available as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Here’s our recommended free and open source alternatives.
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ScreenCloud – screenshot sharing tool
ScreenCloud is a screenshot tool that’s designed for network services such as Dropbox and Imgur.
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espanso – smart and efficient text expander
espanso is a text expander, software that detects when you type a specific keyword and replaces it with something else.
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TreeSheets – free form data organizer
TreeSheets is an open source tool that organizes data. Suitable for any kind of data organization, such as todo lists, calendars, project management, and more.
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Gromit-MPX – desktop annotation tool
Gromit-MPX (GRaphics Over Miscellaneous Things) is a utility to make annotations on the desktop.
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Minder – mind-mapping tool
Minder lets you use the power of mind-mapping to make your ideas come to life. Minder is free and open source software.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Streaming radio – Week 30
For this week’s blog, Luke conducts a detailed survey of open source internet radio players that purr on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Excellent Utilities: Watson – CLI tool to track time
Watson is a CLI-based open source utility that helps you track the time spent on projects. It’s free and open source goodness.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Taking Notes – Week 25
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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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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