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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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Linux

39 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal Emulators

February 15, 2025 Steve Emms Internet, Productivity, Roundup, Utilities

A terminal emulator is computer software which emulates a dumb video terminal. We make our recommendations.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

Counters – keep track of anything

February 14, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Counters is a simple counting application that lets you create counters to keep track of anything you want.

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Calculators

22 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Linux Calculators

February 1, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup

One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is the calculator. We recommend the finest terminal-based calculators.

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Linux

mlterm – multi lingual terminal emulator

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Mlterm is a multilingual terminal emulator on X11. It’s written in C.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Clock

January 29, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Windows Clock is a time management app offering alarms, world clocks, timers, a stopwatch, and focus sessions.

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Time tracking

Flowkeeper – Pomodoro Technique desktop timer

January 28, 2025 Steve Emms Productivity

Flowkeeper is a Pomodoro Technique desktop timer for power users. It is a simple tool, which focuses on doing one thing well.

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spigot – command-line exact real calculator

January 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

spigot is a command-line streaming exact real calculator. It’s written in the C++ programming language.

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MCalc – calculator for performing simple mathematical operations

January 26, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

MCalc is a calculator for performing simple mathematical operations in all existing number systems.

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RCalc – RPN calculator

January 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

RCalc is an RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) calculator. It aims to be quick to open and use, and easy to extend

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ec – RPN calculator

January 23, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

ec is a useful RPN calculator with array operations and quotations.

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