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What is your most useful Linux app which others might not know about (please don't just give the name but a link and why it is good for you) ? (feddit.org)
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Why software do you use in your day-to-day computing which might not be well-known?

For me, there are ~~two~~ three things for personal information management:

  • for shopping receipts, notes and such, I write them down using vim on a small Gemini PDA with a keyboard. I transfer them via scp to a Raspberry Pi home server on from there to my main PC. Because it runs on Sailfish OS, it also runs calendar (via CalDav) and mail nicely - and without any FAANG server.

  • for things like manuals and stuff that is needed every few months ("what was just the number of our gas meter?" "what is the process to clean the dishwasher?") , I have a Gollum Wiki which I have running on my Laptop and the home Raspi server. This is a very simple web wiki which supports several markup languages (like Markdown, MediaWiki, reStructuredText, and Creole), and stores them via git. For me, it is perfect to organize personal information around the home.

  • for work, I use Zim wiki. It is very nice for collecting and organizing snippets of information.

  • oh, and I love Inkscape(a powerful vector drawing program), Xournal (a program you can write with a tablet on and annotate PDFs), and Shotwell (a simple photo manager). The great thing about Shotwell is that it supports nicely to filter your photos by quality - and doing that again and again with a critical eye makes you a better photographer.

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[–] klu9@piefed.social 24 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

KDE Connect

I've used it a lot just to control audio or video playing on my computer from my phone. (Sometimes when I'm sat at my computer with multiple windows and workspaces open, I even find it easier just to hit my phone's lockscreen to pause the music.)

I'm starting to use some of its other features, too. E.g. copying & pasting and sharing files between phone and computer.

There's more too I need to explore.

(Unfortunately, sometimes I get a 'device unreachable' error when both devices clearly have a working connection to the same router.)

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Kde connect is great. You can get notifications on pc and read texts fully in messages. I also use it to file share and send 2fa codes.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

I've been using that a lot, but I wish there was a "disconnect" on the phone's app, rather than keeping a persistent connection.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 6 points 19 hours ago

I just introduced my partner to this a week ago. Trying to slowly convert him into a Linux user haha. It works with Windows too!