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Category: Productivity

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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espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

espansoGUI is a GUI for espanso created with Rust and Iced.

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Writing Tools

Writernote takes notes in an intelligent way

May 31, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Writernote allows you to take notes in an intelligent way. Record audio as you write, and listen to it again seeing what you have written.

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Sticky Notes

Clues is a sticky notes app with connections

May 27, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

It’s built with Electron.js and allows you to create, connect, and organize your thoughts visually.

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PIM-Software

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Personal Information Managers

May 25, 2025 Steve Emms Office, Productivity, Roundup

A personal information manager (often known as a PIM tool) is a type of collaborative software that can help you manage your life.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Mule ESB

May 22, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Programming

Mule ESB (Mule Enterprise Service Bus) is a lightweight, Java-based platform that helps the integration of various applications and systems.

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Sticky Notes

Jorts is a colourful sticky notes program

May 20, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Jorts is a sticky notes app designed for elementary OS but runs on any Linux distribution.

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Time tracking

Solanum is a time tracking app

May 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Work in 4 sessions, with breaks in between each session and one long break after all 4.

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Time tracking

Flowtime – spend your time wisely

May 18, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Flowtime is a GUI program to get what motivates you done, without losing concentration.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Loop

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Microsoft Loop is an online collaborative workspace helps users gather, organize, and build notes, ideas, and projects.

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Notes

AppFlowy is an open source alternative to Notion

May 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace without losing control of your data.

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Clocks

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Clocks

May 11, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

The clocks featured in this article are more sophisticated than the basic tray clock.

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Image of a digital clock

dclock is a digital clock

May 8, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

The dclock program displays the time in digital format only. The time is updated on a per second basis or on a per minute basis.

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Image of a digital clock

xdaliclock is an advanced xclock substitute

May 7, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Dali Clock is a digital clock. When a digit changes, it “melts” into its new shape. The date is displayed when the mouse is pressed.

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XPipe is an awesome shell connection hub and remote file manager

May 6, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Productivity, Reviews

XPipe is open source desktop software which lets you create and manage connections to remote system from a central interface.

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Bookmark manager tool

nb is a command line and local note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Productivity, Utilities

nb creates notes in text-based formats like Markdown, Org, LaTeX, and AsciiDoc, can work with files in any format

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Stamps

10 Best Free and Open Source Collection Managers

April 30, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

There is a wide range of collection manager software available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source options.

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Automation

Zato offers ESB, SOA, API and cloud integrations

April 30, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Zato is a Python-based integration platform that lets you build and deliver enterprise solutions.

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Automation

Actionsflow automates developers’ workflows based on GitHub actions

April 29, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity, Programming

Actionsflow helps you automate workflows – it’s a free IFTTT/Zapier alternative for developers.

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