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GloboNote – easy to use desktop note taking application

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

GloboNote is a simple and easy to use open source note taking application. This software lets you create sticky notes, to-do lists, reminders, and more.

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WikidPad – wiki-like notebook software

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

WikidPad is an open source, Python-based wiki-like notebook for storing thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, and other notes.

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FeatherNotes – lightweight Qt5 hierarchical notes manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

FeatherNotes is a lightweight notes manager based on Qt5. FeatherNotes is desktop agnostic. It’s free and open source software.

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MyNotex – note-taking, document file and activity manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

MyNotex is open source software useful to take and to manage textual notes and activity management. It offers several features for redaction.

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tomboy-ng – note taking app

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

tomboy-ng is a note taking app that works and synchronizes between Linux, Windows and MacOS. tomboy-ng is free and open source software.

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org-mode – note taking software

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Org-mode is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, and doing project planning with a fast and effective plain-text system.

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Trilium Notes – hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.

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BasKet Note Pads – multi-purpose note-taking software

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

BasKet Note Pads is a KDE program for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. It can manage various types of information such as to-do lists and pictures.

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Simplenote – simple way to keep notes

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Simplenote offers fast, free, synchronized notes for iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux and the web.

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CherryTree – hierarchical note taking software

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

CherryTree is a hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single XML or SQLite file.

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Zim Desktop Wiki – brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Zim Desktop Wiki (Zim) is an open source graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages.

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Joplin – note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Productivity

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.

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Compositing Window Managers

Weston – lightweight and functional Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Weston provides a very basic desktop, or a full-featured environment for non-desktop uses such as automotive, embedded, in-flight, and more.

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Compositing Window Managers

labwc – Lab Wayland Compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Labwc is a wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for wayland, inspired by openbox.

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Compositing Window Managers

hikari – stacking Wayland compositor

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor which is actively developed on FreeBSD but also supports Linux.

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Wayfire – Wayland compositor based on wlroots

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Wayfire is a 3D Wayland compositor, inspired by Compiz and based on wlroots. This is free and open source software.

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Tiling Window Managers

Notion – tiling, tabbed window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

Notion is a tiling, tabbed window manager for the X window system. The program is traditionally written to be very usable by mainly using the keyboard.

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Tiling Window Managers

wmderland – X11 tiling window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

wmderland is an X11 tiling window manager using space partitioning trees with no bloated features and a tiny disk footprint.

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Tiling Window Managers

Ratpoison – simple window manager

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

ratpoison is a simple window manager with no fancy graphics, no window decorations, and no fat library dependencies. It is largely modelled after GNU Screen.

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Tiling Window Managers

EXWM – full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Desktop

EXWM (Emacs X Window Manager) is a full-featured tiling X window manager for Emacs built on top of XELB.

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