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Category: Productivity

Screen Capture

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11 which exports PNG screenshots to file or stdout.

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Time tracking

arttime is an intriguing clock, timer, time manager with text art

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Reviews

arttime is a combination of art, clock, timer, and a time manager all from a single terminal-based application.

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Screen Capture

maim takes screenshots of your desktop

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

maim (Make Image) is a utility that takes screenshots of your desktop.

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Automation

Best Free and Open Source Visual Automation Tools

March 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

This article looks at software which provides a graphical user interface for automating desktop tasks.

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Automation

wtype – xdotool type for Wayland

March 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

wtype is a Wayland tool that allows you to simulate keyboard input like xdotool type for X11.

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Office

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Salesforce Quip

March 6, 2025 Steve Emms Office, Productivity

Quip is a collaborative productivity software package. It lets groups of people to create and edit documents and spreadsheets collaboratively.

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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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