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What pieces of software can you recommend that's free, efficient and does not bullshit around? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Notepad++ - This piece of software is a very advanced form of Notepad. Fuck that basic Notepad shit that Windows or any other OS gives you. This one is all you'll ever need for basic note-taking needs. But it does a hell of a lot more. One thing I love about it is that, if for any reason I put my PC to sleep, it crashes, power outage, I can run this again and everything I've ever written and no matter how many tabs - it's all retained.

AIMP - The definitive media player that you'll ever need for just playing stuff (music only, sorry if I mislead those thinking it can do video). Winamp and all the other software are just around for nostalgia (though Winamp has it's uses where you need it to play specific formats like video game music such as SNES with .SPC). One feature that attracted me to it was, it used to infuriate me when I am playing something and something crashes in any other media player. And you boot up that media player and you have to play your playlist all over again or that song from the beginning.

Not AIMP, if I accidentally close it, crash or whatever, I can bring it back up and it'll have the song or whatever on Pause so I can resume. Why isn't shit like this more implemented in software?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

KeePassXC, or any kind of KeePass-compatible client. It uses strong encryption to store passwords, passkeys, and arbitrary data. Also does TOTP. Not using a password manager in current year is stupid.

QOwnNotes - a note-taking app that uses plain markdown files. None of that stupid metadata-inside-markdown-inside-database bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can confirm both these. Although Qownnotes is a bit of mess in UI, it does its job well. I wanted something simple that will just load bunch of locally saved md files and this is the best I could find so far.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you want a similar markdown editor, Obsidian does much the same, but with a much nicer single-panel UI. The client is free (as in no-cost), but closed-source.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm kind of hesitant with it since it's not FOSS. To be honest I never really understood why anyone makes free (no $$) software but not open source it. I might give it a try though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Obsidian also operates a paid cloud storage and public hosting service. Releasing the client for free is a way to gain good publicity and hook new customers, but making it open-source (or even nonfree source-available) would make adapting it to a different storage service trivial, which would hurt Obsidian's business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It works well with syncthing...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, yes, but also no. There are other similarly strucuted SW that can survive even though they're open sourced. Things like Standard Notes, Notesnook, Stingle photos, etc. I believe most people would go hassle free route if the accompanying "cloud service" were good enough. And FOSS sticker is a good bonus on top. Just my 2 cents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There's Zettlr & Logseq Or......... you use Org-Roam/Org-Agenda in Emacs to get a 2nd brain functionality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've tried both and did not like either. Logseq would be probably ok if it didn't sort every note as a bullet list.

Zettlr was veeery slow for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I love Keypass XC for it's better User interface but the Kee Broswer addon for Keepass 2.0 is just astronomically better. You can search and edit entries and it doesn't close on you when the page reloads.