This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential utilities. These are small, indispensable tools, useful for anyone running a Linux machine.
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Category: Productivity
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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9 Best Free Linux Business Intelligence Software
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, all available under open source licenses.
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10 Best Linux Flashcard Software
Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility. They can help teach multiplication skills, learn a foreign language, recall facts, historical dates, in fact anything that can be learned in an intuitive way.
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10 Best Free Linux Document Processors
A document processor is a document preparation system. Unlike a word processor, this type of application leads the author to concentrate on the structure of the document rather than its appearance. The author therefore focuses on what he/she wants to say, instead of fretting over page borders, font attributes, or formatting. Moreover, the author will be guided in the organisation, structure, and flow within the document.
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Top 6 Linux Diary Software
Keeping a diary of your daily life is an activity that is held dear by many people. It represents a good way of storing personal or business information on a day-to-day-basis. Keep track of notes and thoughts through the day, organize and secure memories, ideas, business transactions, emails, accounts, future plans, contact lists, and even secret information.
This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. With features like tag support, encryption, multiple journals, and live searches, Linux diary software makes it easier to keep track of events as they occur.
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8 Best Free Linux Personal Information Managers (Updated 2019)
A personal information manager (often known as a PIM tool) is a type of collaborative software that can help you manage your life by offering personal organizing functionality. This type of software enables you to more efficiently manage and plan
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