Been awhile since I saw a thread like this and they’re always good for at least one or two things I’ve never heard of before. Bonus points if the software is open source and cross platform. Extra bonus points if you link to where we can see it/get it.

My contribution: Destiny which is an anonymous, P2P, E2EE file sharing app - its basically a GUI for a Magic Wormhole implementation. Works on Linux (tarball or appimage), Win, Mac, Android (inc f-droid) and iOS. Only downside is it’s not been updated for 2 years.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    sl is a classic command line program for something harmlessly pointless

    calibre for digital library software (cataloging books/docs/articles)

    Comic book reader, it’s a cbz/CBR comic book archive reader that tries to do the panel/smart auto zoom that used to be a part of comixology until Amazon bought it to kill it as competition to their shitty books app

  • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Windirstat

    A windows app that shows you the space things are taking up on your computer so you can easily delete them. Usually helps me clear out a ton of space.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    9 days ago

    OmniDiskSweeper. Forget apps that help manage disk space with some ugly graph that’s difficult to understand. This just lists files and directories with the heaviest / most space used from top to bottom in a file tree. Essential. Here’s what it looks like:

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    BeeCount - A app to keep track of patterns while crafting. I like that I can have an overall row count, but make separate counters nested underneath for the same pattern (ex: You’re on row x, but row a for a cable repeat).

    Olauncher : A simple launder for android. Less busy. “My Row Counter” appears to have a similar set up

  • phonics@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    https://logseq.com/ a personal knowledge base with markdown and has a whiteboard feature. I live in this program now. From daily little notes and reminders to full on script writing. It’s a little clunky but it works with my brain. Other similar programs are notion, obsidian and anytype.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I can second logseq but it has a bit of a steep learning curve. Not impossible but you have to learn how logseq wants you to use their software and then it becomes powerful.

      • bigpEE@lemmy.world
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        9 days ago

        What’s your take on how they want you to use their software? I throw down bullet points in the journal, tag them with big overarching themes, and link to old journal entries sometimes. Am I missing something important?

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I’m used to journaling by topic but Logseq wants you to journal by date. So you start by journalling on the date saying you’re working on x and then you link to x and then put details there.

          It’s a bit round about it you’re not used to it.

  • virku@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    DevToys. It’s an awesome cross-platform swiss army knife for developers. It’s got most of the little tools that you would look up online.

    Formatters, encoding/decoding, validators etc.

    I really love it!

  • joel_feila@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Apparently many don’t know libre office is thing and free. Seeing people ask for goggle doc alternative amd all they need is a word processor.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    ClickBook - dunno if it’s even available anymore, but like 20 years ago it was either a standalone or add-on that formatted Word docs for printing. I think it cost $35. You could lay out say a tri-fold brochure or a folded-in-half and stapled booklet and it would rotate, combine and print the pages in the correct order. My wife and I used it endlessly to produce publications for our kids’ school. If your printer could only print on one side, there was a quick setup procedure that would would figure out how you should rotate or flip the stack of pages to do the second side. I haven’t used Word in years so for all I know it might have these capabilities natively now, but in its time ClickBook was probably the most worth-it program I ever bought.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Can you alter the header only on page 6? Or rotate pages 3 and 5? Because that’s the kind of wizardry that Microsoft refuses to implement in Word.

      • safesyrup@feddit.orgEnglish
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        10 days ago

        They have improved. You can do unit conversions, great binary/hex/oct calculation/visualization, do graphing, calculate dates. It honestly is very good.

        • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caEnglish
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          10 days ago

          You can do unit conversions, great binary/hex/oct calculation

          Ok you’re actually right about those improvements👍 and yeah those were actually really handy.

          Are you sure it can do visualization, graphing, and dates? Is this on W11? I’m not on my computer atm but I don’t remember those functions/features.

          • safesyrup@feddit.orgEnglish
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            10 days ago

            Yeah this is on win11. I am not 100% sure if graphing works on win10 as well, but i think so :)