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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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[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Great topic. I'm going to have to investigate some of these suggestions later.

Since my first pick, helix, was already mentioned here and i commented on it, I'll add gitui. Git can be very overwhelming for me. Gitui arranges frequently used git commands in a sensible, visual layout and makes it easy for me to understand and interact with git.

[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

For doing more complex tasks with git, you could have a look at jujutsu. It is really good and provides most of git's power in an conceptually much simpler CLI interface.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for the rec! The anonymous branches and working-copy-as-commit subsuming git stashes is intriguing. I'll give it a closer look when I have a chance.