Bit of a different answer, but I enjoy Daylio. Very simple and easy to track your mood and activities to look back on. Not really super useful, but very interesting and fun!
Oh thank you for this recommendation. I’ve been wanting something like this for ages but couldn’t describe it properly to find it.
I love it, paid for the premium version! Love the customization, the yearly view, and you can add photos and notes, it’s the best!
Honestly I like Daylio so much I pay for premium.
The only thing I don’t like (not sure if this feature is present on desktop) is that you can’t extract and chart activity data over long periods of time. E.g. I want to see patterns of activity, but not relative to mood or other activities.
I really should pay for premium, it’s just that the free version does exactly what I wanted from it so I’ve never felt like I had to. But at this point I just want to support it!
Yeah that’s exactly why I paid for it. Think it’s a great app and want to support them over time. Agree that free version serves the purpose just as well though!
I used this for a bit as data collection to help me and my therapist to track my depression. There are a bunch of free CBT apps out there for they kind of thing too.
Nuke Studio
Krita. I don’t use it at a professional level so I don’t know if it’s missing important features, but as far as I know it’s also used by skilled artists. Also, the documentation is great.
For both professional and personal use, I can list 2 that you likely haven’t heard of:
https://github.com/meowtec/Imagine Imagine PNG/JPEG optimization - it basically compresses images and photos so you can email lots of stuff back and forth without using the likes of WeTransfer.
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/ Ditto Clipboard Manager - a multi clipboard for Windows. Ever try to paste something, only to realise you’ve already copied over it? Its use and helpfulness is so ubiquitous, I just could never live without it anymore.
FileOptimizer collects these sorts of apps and tries out each on your files to get the best compression. I use it every day, particularly for work.
Looks interesting, I’ll give it a go!
I love Ditto, I use it daily!
Windows has a clipboard feature like that built in now. Press Win+V to enable it.
That’s a far cry from what Ditto can do.
From what I’ve seen, it’s not nearly as customizable as Ditto.
ShareX. The ability to screenshot or record a video of practically anything onscreen with any shape or form, assign hotkeys to certain tasks, and the ability to automate all of that and attach to other applications/processes for a smoother workflow? For free? Count me in.
Taking the opportunity to get on my soapbox and remind everyone that free software still requires someone’s time and effort to maintain. If you’ve been using a free app for a while and you and you enjoy it (and you have the means to do so), consider sending a donation to the developers/maintainers! It’s a good way to help ensure that the great, free app you enjoy stays great and free.
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I adore Firefox but several years ago, Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Forms, etc) decided to change their font system in some bizarre way that they’re never formatted right on Firefox and cause spacing issues. It sucks because I use Docs and Sheets so frequently that I end up needing to keep two browsers installed and switch whenever I want to work on some of my projects.
This but in the Fennec flavor
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I’m on Fennec on Android and LibreWolf on desktop.
I’ve never thought about it, how do they make money? I’ve never seen an ad or sent them money.
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Donations
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Getting payed by google to make it their default search engine.
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I donate every. single. month.
They make a large amount from Google paying them to be the default search engine. Also they have been making additional projects that can be subscribed to as add-ons for Firefox (like a VPN and an email forwarding service that allows you to make fake email addresses or phone numbers to use on sites that will forward the messages to your real inbox/phone). You can use a limited version of the email thing without paying though so it is easy to try out. And they are always ready to take donations of any size and can be reoccurring. I personally pay .99/month for the email service even though I don’t use it often. As it is nice to have if I need it, and it is basically a donation at that point. lol.
Here are links to those products if you care to read more about them or at least see pricing.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/But even just making a point to donate some one-offs here and there does help in small ways to keep a real option in browsers that isn’t just another Chromium-based project.
https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/Everyone hated when IE was the only browser that sites were coded for, and we are seeing more and more Chromium only sites. Which means a bad vulnerability in Chromium will impact all the browsers based on it. Also privacy add-ons for Firefox tend to work better and block ads well.
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Mainly a non profit
Mozilla seems to be pretty transparent. You can see their financial statement at State of Mozilla.
ITT people throwing out names of things with 0 mention of what they are or what they’re used for.
Like, I appreciate being to look at everyone’s recommendations, but man that’s a lot of googling
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OsmAnd. Navigated me through numerous countries on holiday. Found us places to eat. So useful it persuaded me to start updating the map locally to help any fellow travelers
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Joplin notes. Use this every day without fail
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Nextcloud. Self hosted cloud that Ive come to rely on
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The only calculator you need! It has custom units, functions, it’s quick, light, stays on top.
I used speedcrunch for a long time but ended up switching to Qalc and haven’t turned back.
Yes both!
I use Qalc for unit conversions (I often need to convert measuring units without acces to internet) and SpeedCrunch for everything else
DaVinci Resolve
ViMusic and Firefox. Both are open source
I’ve been using ViMusic daily when I drive. For what I can’t find I use NewPipe
Playnite for my games.
The Portable Apps Platform - free portable software meta app. It’s there, every day, like the Windows start button is there.
Oh man, there’s something I haven’t seen in a long time. Saved my ass at school so many times when the school’s software was garbage
Still there, still growing, it’s the gateway to 450+ apps. More, if you like the betas.
No use to me anymore, is why I stopped using it. Been a long time since I’ve had to do anything significant on a Windows machine
Not a Wine user?
Any web browser
