Trying to discover new/unheard apps.

  • aktenkundig@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 months ago

    Analogous to the Krita post, I am surprised nobody seems to know KolourPaint. It’s similar to MS paint. I use it, when I need to make a quick sketch, whiteboard style, e.g. when sharing my screen with a coworker.

    Otherwise, I really must have Dolphin and Okular.

    I love dolphin’s split mode (quickly toggled with F3) and its ability to seamlessly navigate all kinds of protocols for my NAS, webdav for nextcloud storage, MTP for the phone…

    Okular has annotations which have been super useful to me. And it’s so easy to switch between viewing single page, two-page and multi-page. Which is great for skimming text documents and presentations. The auto reload ability is great when iterating on a document (e.g. latex doc or matplotlib chart).

    Otherwise, of course firefox and thunderbird, not much to say here Please don’t use chrome. It’s market share makes Google the de-facto owner of www technology. But I guess I’d be preaching to the choir here.

  • 999999999@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Blanket is an app that plays relaxing sounds, not really a “must have” but it works great.

  • koen@lemmy.zip
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    9 months ago
    • Obsidian - great markdown-based note app
    • NewsFlash - fast and elegant RSS news reader
    • Bottles - program to run Windows apps and managing them easily
    • BreakTimer - a life-saver for me; it allows you to set a break after given amount of time
    • LibreWolf - privacy-focused fork of Firefox

    There are a lot of awesome programs on Linux, I recommend browsing Flathub to find them

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    An web browser. 99 percent of my mobile activities are done in Firefox. I have Organic Maps for routing, a local mobile payment app and a local sharing electric sooter app.

    This is pretty much all apps I use.

    • sfera@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      I think that the question is primarily about Desktop Apps, since this is the Linux community.

      • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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        9 months ago

        Mmmh. To me apps are the things installed on a smartphone. The things I install on a computer I call programs.

        But the same applies there for me, too. I basically do everything in the browser.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I prefer Scour for SVGs, but as long as we can agree that svgo is trash, we can be friends.

  • MonkderDritte@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    edir to mass-rename

    fd is more convenient than find

    aria2 makes downloads go brr with parameters -x 10 -k 5M and is integrated with multiple tools like yt-tlp, yay

    Oh, and pass for password-management

    ssu makes root console tools password-less. That and rdo for gui-tools (both a bit over 100 loc) made me uninstall sudo.

  • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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    9 months ago

    Logseq.

    What is Logseq?

    It’s a non-linear note taking app that allows smart linking and is made as a second brain.

    It makes use of the Zettelkasten system, where, in theory, you make notes of everything and categorize it. Over time, you offload your brain and make it free for more productive stuff.

    Logseq is often considered as a FOSS alternative to Obsidian.

    • noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      I tried it and really wanted to like it, but the Android client’s UI is just unusable for me. as much as I prefer going FOSS whenever I can, I tried Obsidian and stuck with it. it’s electron on desktop and definitely not native UI on mobile, but feels much more polished.

      • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, the Android app is horrible. I only use it if I don’t have my PC in arm’s reach.

        It feels sluggish, buggy, is overloaded, I always get sync issues (usually the last words I just typed go missing), and some features (especially the graph overview) don’t work at all sometimes. And the whole app sometimes feels like an alpha version, which is just a no-go…

        I really hope the mobile app gets polished more over the next months. Many people nowadays mostly use mobile devices, and having such an unpolished app really hurts the image. And, PLEASE devs, test your software before shipping it out. Especially the mobile app is broken half the time.

        I still gladly pay the 5$/ month for the optional sync and to support the devs.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      9 months ago

      I tried it on desktop but the fact that it’s “paragraph-based” so to say is annoying. I’d like to format text freely and hit return to go to a new line, not create bullet points for everything I write. It seems a bit contrived in this way, but perhaps I just haven’t found how to make it work the way I want yet

    • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
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      9 months ago

      I’m actively looking for a Logseq replacement, since they require CLA singing and can pull the rug at any moment.

      We discovered Trilium and will be trying it out to see if we can migrate.

      • bastion@feddit.nl
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        9 months ago

        Trillium is great. I’ve been scrolling through here to see if anyone mentioned it, and was gonna put it out there if nobody had.

        I haven’t tried it out on android (if that even exists), though.

        • T (they/she)@beehaw.org
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          9 months ago

          Well, I just realized they don’t support multi user which is kind of a deal breaker for us, since we are a couple sharing a homelab. We always wanted to share a few files when using Logseq and it seems this won’t be solved with Trilium either. This sucks.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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      9 months ago

      Do you feel like offloading stuff into your notes helps your cognition?

      • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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        9 months ago

        Yeah, definitely, especially at work.
        It really helped me to switch off my “work brain”, because I know, that everything I did today is written down, and I don’t have to keep things in my mind anymore after work. Doing that was a blessing for my stress level and mental health.

        It also gives me the edge above my colleagues that I “remember” everything I did in the last months, which is nice when my boss wants to know details of a project I did a year ago.

        I basically can’t even remember what I did 5 minutes ago (ADHD says hello), but I know exactly where I can find that knowledge. This frees up my working memory (psychological term, not related to work) immensely. It’s basically like transfering more tasks onto your hard drive instead of keeping it in the RAM.

        It’s also great to give me an graphical overview of all I think and work on all day, and unveals connections I never thought of between different topics.

        For private use, it’s also great as a journal, though I gave up on that because I’m too busy for it and it cost too much time in my everyday life. But I still use it daily for normal note taking, e.g. results of some experiments at home, hobbies, thoughts, and much more.

        • fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          All of this makes sense, but I still can’t wrap my head around the “finding” of information. How do you search for it? Do you remember keywords or the location of the note (this I feel like maybe defeats the purpose of Logseq’s write anywhere idea)

          • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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            9 months ago

            I use a mix of

            • Search bar, very powerful
            • The graph overview, which allows me to “hunt” for the thing I need
            • Filters
            • And a lot of tags, aliases and crosslinks
        • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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          9 months ago

          Fuck you I’m sold. That sounds so useful if I can stick with it enough.

          • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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            9 months ago

            That sounds so useful if I can stick with it enough.

            That’s my main issue for private use. At my job, I never had problems sticking with the habit of writing everything down. I work in a science job, and documentation is key there. So, I basically get paid for exactly that.

            But in my free time, the whole concept of task management, knowledge offloading, and more, is a bit harder for me, especially when I come home tired.

            Welcome in the life of someone with ADHD. I need my life to be organized, but have a hard time with exactly that. It’s like needing to find your contact lenses because you dropped them…

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        I don’t use Logseq, I use Silverbullet, and yes, it helps A LOT. I have lots of random notes on random pages on how to do things at work, or on my personal servers or whatever. You know that feeling of “I’ve already had to deal with this, how the hell did I do it?” It’s completely gone.

        If you use a good organization system with a hierarchy that makes sense and tags you can easily find stuff, so you can turn off your brain from having to remember all of that and it can focus on the thing you need to actually solve now. Don’t know if you’re old enough to remember a time before cellphones, we had to remember our friends number, nowadays this is not a concern, because your phone will remember the number for you, it’s like that but for everything, very liberating.

        • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
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          9 months ago

          QOwnNotes

          Thank you for recommending this. I started using Joplin about week or two ago, but this one seems even better for me.

        • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I have not, I’m using Standard Notes at the moment. I’ll have a look at QOwnNotes though, thanks for the recommendation

      • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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        9 months ago

        Do it!

        I had some initial problems in the beginning, because I was used to linear note taking apps like OneNote or Joplin, but once I watched a guide on how it works, it clicked and now it’s my second nature. I even began to write my hand written notes in Logseq style!

        TL;DR, if you don’t wanna watch any guides/ read docs:

        • Indentation matters. Logseq works with a parent-child hierarchy
        • You usually don’t open or create new pages, you write everything in your journal and link stuff there.
        • Use links, either with [[Link]] or #Tag, which are the same. They crosslink different topics and reveal connections.
        • Make use of plugins. There are thousands of it. Especially the Graph Analysis plugin should be included by default.
        • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
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          9 months ago

          I used Obsidian extensively at a previous job. The linking of notes was super helpful! I don’t think it’ll work as well for my needs at the moment (at work) but I’ll give it a go

          • Guenther_Amanita 🍄@slrpnk.net
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            9 months ago

            What do you do at your job? As long as you don’t work at an assembly belt in a factory, you will still probably get benefits out of it.

            Examples:

            • Notes about colleagues or customers
            • Project ideas
            • Random thoughts
            • Writing down meetings and mails
            • And much more!
  • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Not necessarily unheard of but Floorp has been pretty great for work. I think all of the other applications I use are well known within their respective niche (e.g JOSM)

    • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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      9 months ago

      I also use Floorp! Firefox is my favourite mobile browser, with the address bar at the bottom for easy access, and also easy-access, reliable tab sync, with Floorp on the desktop for its workspaces feature + the ability to use the old Firefox style (with minimal tabs) with a simple toggle.

      The only browser that could measure up to it (meaning it has the same feature set for both desktop and mobile) is Vivaldi (Correction: Last time I used it, Vivaldi was missing a crucial feature: the ability to only show bookmarks on a new tab) but that often feels too complicated and takes too long to set up. If Vivaldi had the ability to, say, sync up all your settings and customisations, as well as tabs, I’d probably be using it right now, or at least consider it. I mean, neither is fully open source, but I’m more likely to trust the Vivaldi team than Ablaze (the company behind Floorp).

      • governorkeagan@lemdro.idEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I agree with pretty much everything you’ve said. My biggest reason for not using Vivaldi is due to it being based on chromium. I’m trying to do my best to reduce the market share of chromium based browsers

  • paradox2011@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    Well the list turned out a bit longer than I expected. I guess I’m a needy person on mobile 😅

    Metro - music player
    Fossify calendar - calendaring
    Joplin - notes
    Immich - photo management (requires server)
    Les pas - photo management that works in conjunction with Nextcloud
    Molly - signal client with enhanced security and useability features
    Mull - web browser
    Cromite - web browser
    Aegis - 2fa provider
    FUTO Voice - speech to text replacement for google speech services
    Heliboard - awesome keyboard
    Seal - YouTube downloader
    Magic earth - google maps replacement
    Thunder - Lemmy client

  • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    The first things I install on a fresh linux install are always htop (task manager) and micro (nano but better).