17 Awesome Linux Applicaitons to Improve your Productivity
I always appreciate any useful application I can find for Linux that can help its users enjoy and have the same comfort they have in Windows. I earlier wrote about of the most useful system application for Linux along with a few more post you might find helpful like
7 Awesome 3D Graphic Design Applications for Linux
Top 5 BitTorrent Clients for Ubuntu Linux
Top 10 Free Video Editors for Linux
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Gnome do is a powerful application for Gnone that works as a remote control for your GNOME desktop. GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present on your desktop or the web, and perform useful actions on those items.
This multi-purpose note-taking application helps you to:
- Easily take all sort of notes
- Collect research results and share them
- Centralize your project data and reuse it
- Quickly organize your thoughts in idea boxes
- Keep track of your information in a smart way
- Make intelligent To Do lists
- And a lot more…
HomeBank is free Linux application you can use to manage your personal accounts. Its an easy to use app that lets you analyse your finances in detail using powerful filtering tools and graphs.
GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
It is designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a checkbook register, it is based on professional accounting principles to ensure balanced books and accurate reports.
Key features include
- Double-Entry Accounting
- Stock/Bond/Mutual Fund Accounts
- Small-Business Accounting
- Customers, Vendors, Jobs,
- Invoices, A/P, A/R
- QIF/OFX/HBCI Import, Transaction Matching
- Reports, Graphs
- Scheduled Transactions
- Financial Calculations
With more than 15,000 improvements, Firefox is not only fast and safe, it’s smarter than ever before. It is probably the best browser one can have because it offers tons of add-ons for your comfort. To improve ones productivity there are so many extensions you can use with your browser that the possibilities become endless.
Katapult is a KDE application that provides you with faster and easier access to your applications, bookmarks,and more.
Incollector is an application to collect various kinds of information like notes, conversation logs, quotes, serial numbers, source code, web addresses, words. All the entries can be tagged, so you can find them very easily. There are also search folders which allows you to search for entries by specified criteria. You can also export and import, of course entries to an external file.
Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor written in Gtk2-Perl which aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a non-existing page. Pages are ordered in a hierarchical structure that gives it the look and feel of an outliner. This tool is intended to keep track of TODO lists or to serve as a personal scratch book.
tkdiff is a graphical front end to the diff program. It provides a side-by-side view of the differences between two files, along with several innovative features such as diff bookmarks and a graphical map of differences for quick navigation.
Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists.
Some of the key features include
- Creating, editing, and deleting tasks and subtasks.
- Tasks have a subject, description, priority, start date, due date, a completion date and an optional reminder. Tasks can recur on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
- Tasks can be viewed as a list or as a tree.
- Tasks can be sorted by all task attributes, e.g. subject, budget, budget left, due date, etc.
- Several filters to e.g. hide completed tasks or view only tasks that are due today.
- Tasks can be created by dragging an e-mail message from Outlook or Thunderbird onto a task viewer.
- Attachments can be added to tasks, notes, and categories by dragging and dropping files, e-mail messages from Outlook or Thunderbird, or URL’s onto a task, note or category.
- Task status depends on its subtask and vice versa. E.g. if you mark the last uncompleted subtask as completed, the parent task is automatically marked as completed too.
Mozilla Sunbird is a cross-platform calendar application, built upon Mozilla Toolkit. The whole purpose of Sunbird is to provide you with full-featured and easy to use calendar application that you can use around the world.
Thunderbird features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need. Thunderbird allows you to customize your email to suit your specific needs whether it’s how you search and find messages or listening to music right out of your inbox.
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool. You can compare two or three files and edit them in place. You can even compare two or three folders and launch file comparisons.You can browse and view a working copy from popular version control systems such such as CVS, Subversion, Bazaar-ng and Mercurial.
qOrganizer is a general organizer that includes a calendar with schedule,reminders,journal/notes for every day, todo list. It represents a new approach to an organizer, with several innovative features.
Key benefits include
- Innovative interface designed to be clear and simple
- Automatic saving of all data.
- Loud reminders
- A rich text journal for everyday in which you can even drag and drop images
- Searching through every entry in the journal and in the schedules
- A clear and simple todo list ( general one, not for every day)
- A flexible timetable for students which even supports different content for odd and even weeks (this is used by universities)
RSSowl is an applications that collect data from RSS-compliant sites are called RSS readers. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize, update, and store information from any compliant source in a convenient, easy to use interface, save selected information in various formats for offline viewing and sharing, and much more. It’s easy to configure, available in many many languages and the best of all: It’s platform-independent.
Specto is a desktop application that will watch configurable events such as website updates, emails, file and folder changes, system processes, etc and then trigger notifications.
Amaya is an excellent application to create and update documents directly on the web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote access features in a uniform environment. This follows the original vision of the Web as a space for collaboration and not just a one-way publishing medium.
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I am a longtime Linux user (especially for server platforms.) But as other OS’s start looking nicer and nicer, I can’t get over how ugly Linux applications are. Even in blog posts that are trying to convince you of all the cool applications. The majority of those screenshots showcase its ugliness nicely.
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Interesting list of applications.
Personally I use Wikidpad as notepad-wiki instead of Zim. It’s written in python AFAIK and is therefore platform independent. Instead of text files it uses an sqlite database. http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/
I’ve never used RSSowl before, maybe I’ll have a look at it someday. I use the BlogBridge RSS reader. It’s programmed in Java which means it’s also platform independant (http://www.blogbridge.com).