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Category: Productivity

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Buffer – embrace ephemeral text

August 8, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Productivity

Buffer provides a minimal editing space for all those things that don’t need keeping. It’s written in Rust.

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Notes

Etesync-Notes – secure note-taking application

July 25, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Etesync-Notes is a secure note-taking application for Linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.

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WiseMapping – web-based mind mapping tool

July 25, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

WiseMapping harnesses the potential of Mind Maps by blending together open standards technologies like SVG and React.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Reminduck – simple reminder app

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Reminduck is a simple reminder app made to be quick and easy. Reminduck focuses on simple or recurrent reminders

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Mind Mapping

11 Best Free and Open Source Mind Mapping Software

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

Mind mapping software offers an excellent way of capturing your thoughts in a structured way, brainstorming new ideas.

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Flash OS

Essential Utilities: Flash OS Images

July 19, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

Linux offers a gamut of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the mundane to the wonderful. In our eyes, it’s the breadth of these tools that help to make Linux a compelling operating system.

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Document Management Systems

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Document Processors

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Education, Productivity, Roundup, Scientific

A document processor is a document preparation system. We recommend the best document processors.

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Minder

Mindolph – personal knowledge management software

July 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Mindolph is a personal knowledge management software with Gen-AI support for all desktop platforms

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Mind Mapping

markmap – build mindmaps with plain text

July 17, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

markmap lets you visualize your Markdown as mindmaps. It parses Markdown content and extracts its intrinsic hierarchical structure

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education

Hypatia – research tool for the Linux desktop

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Hypatia is a research tool for the Linux desktop. It’s designed to provide at-a-glance information about the topics you’re reading

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Task Manager

Nottodbox – organize notes, to-dos and diaries

July 12, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Nottodbox is a highly customizable WYSIWYG-like editor for notes, to-dos and diaries.

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Application Launchers

Jasmine – web launcher and session management application

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Jasmine is a comprehensive web launcher and session management application that transforms your scattered bookmarks and browser tabs

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Schulrechner – calculator you know from school

June 28, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Productivity

Input complex equations and output fractions as well as decimals, this calculator produces math that looks like the math on your paper.

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Cuneo is a widget-like calculator and conversion tool

June 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Cuneo is a simple and straightforward app that lets you calculate and convert anything. It’s designed for the GNOME desktop.

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Typing

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Typing Tutors

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms Education, Office, Productivity, Roundup

Typing tutor software teaches fast and accurate typing through a system of informative lessons and progress tracking.

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Sums is a postfix calculator designed for quick calculations

June 11, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Sums is a postfix calculator designed for quick calculations and focused on simplicity.

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Sticky Notes

12 Best Free and Open Source Sticky Note Applications

June 8, 2025 Steve Emms Desktop, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A sticky note (often known as a Post-it Note) is a small piece of paper with a strip of glue on its back. Here’s our verdict.

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Diary

Simple Diary is a simple and lightweight app

June 5, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Simple Diary saves entries in standard Markdown. There’s support for images, and a responsive design.

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Automation

5 Best Free and Open Source Text Expander Tools

June 3, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

We are always looking for utilities that improve our productivity. One way to improve your workflow is to enhance your typing experience.

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Automation

Compress is text compression for generating keyboard expansions

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Compress is a tool for automatically creating typing shortcuts from a corpus of your own writing.

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