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What Linux "Productivity" (ideally FOSS) tools do you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm in a bit of a productivity rut and whilst I suspect the issue is mainly between the keyboard and chair I'm also interested in what (FOSS) tools there are that people find effective.

One of my issues at the moment is cross managing different workstreams particularly with personal projects which are more in the "if I have time category".

I'm interested in anything that helps manage time or limit distractions or anything that makes it easier to keep track of progress/next steps for project when there may be a bit of a time gap between.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I use Gnome as my main DE, so I use the Pop shell for automatic window tiling. It's not being actively maintained anymore while Pop works on their new DE, but it still works pretty great. I have my eye on Veshell which is an upcoming DE from the guy who made the Material Shell overhaul for Gnome. It's a significant change to the UX compared to any other DEs I've tried.

My main productivity work is making vector files for a laser cutter, so I use a combination of Inkscape and Lightburn (not FOSS) for that. I also use Openscad and Prusa Slicer for making various repair parts, but that's not usually paying work.

On the terminal side I prefer fish and kakoune. Kakoune's changes to the vim/neovim keybinds are a lot more intuitive and easier to learn imo, but come with the obvious downside of learning something less universally useful than the vim keybinds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you for reminding me of Material Shell, I tried it years ago on an older build of Zorin OS and it crashed constantly. Excited to give it another whirl, and great to see he's working on the same concept with a new implementation,