Calendars: Nextcloud – App can act as CalDAV / CardDAV provider.Videos: VLC – Plays files, streams, optical disks, streams, attached devices.Images & Bitmaps: Gwenview (KDE) – Configurable views.Annotation (+export to HTML, markdown, plaintext).Supports most formats ( EPUB, Mobipocket, Kindle, FictionBook, and comic book archive sadly, not PDF).Classic window, or distraction-free GUI.Ebooks: Foliate – Simple, but very configurable.Documents: Okular – Supports PDF, PS, Markdown, plaintext.Focus on writing, not on formatting distractions.Markdown – For quickly writing (nearly) plain text files that you can create multiple output formats from (e.g., HTML, PDF, blog posts,…).OpenDocument (OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications) – For keeping office files (texts, spreadsheets, presentations) interchangeable and readable, even after decades.PDF/A validation: veraPDF – Validates against PDF/A standards versions 1–3, compliance levels B, A and U.Deskew and clean PDF file content before OCR.OCR (especially postprocessing): OCRmyPDF – Sophisticated frontend to Tesseract.OCR (generic): Tesseract – OCR for many languages.Notetaking ( Markdown): Joplin – Plain text & WYSIWYG editing.Modified PDF/A files often still validate against standard.Create brochure for double-sided printing.Modification of PDF files (GUI): PDF Arranger – Drag & drop, rotate, split, crop pages of PDF files.Helpful handbooks available as PDF files.Word processor, Spreadsheets, Presentations: LibreOffice Writer, LibreOffice Calc, LibreOffice Impress – All you need.Encryption: GnuPG – Signing and encrypting.Excellent, but inofficial Android app is available, too. ![]() Newsfeed aggregator for RSS & Atom (Web): Nextcloud News – Addon to Nextcloud.Very functional, but painfully ugly while unconfigured.Both standalone or via online aggregators like Tiny Tiny RSS, Nextcloud News, etc.Newsfeed aggregator for RSS/RDF & Atom feeds (Desktop): RSS Guard.v78+ includes naive OpenPGP encryption feature that needs to be tweaked, NicoHood explains why and how.Email client: Thunderbird – Highly configurable.Disabled or removed: telemetry intrusive search engines »recommendations« weak cryptography protocols DRM.Enabled by default: important privacy settings Adblocking HTTPS-only.Web browser: LibreWolf – Up-to-date Firefox fork.Resistance over assimilation We prefer to keep software out of our workspaces that is not open source, over looking for integration workarounds.We rather work with an ugly software setup that does the job, than mitigate functional deficiencies of a good-looking one, by workarounds. We prefer open source software maintained by people with an untainted track record. Credibility and privacy over broken trust.Wherever possible we prefer add-ons, managed within a proven framework that reliably handles non-functional requirements like user management, security and privacy. We prefer solid support of standards over proprietary concepts and implementations. ![]() Consider them a profile of our audience that we keep in mind. Also, niche items that we have found useful for solving fringe problems.įinally, some sections mention standards that your chosen solution should support, if interoperability, independence, and long-term strategic considerations matter to you. ![]() Some sections list advanced items that produce great results, if you’re willing to put in some serious learning effort. Where we couldn’t find a suitable software yet that both satisfies the requirements and complies with our principles, we’ve added a Wanted: item Without any doubt, there are worthy alternatives, and we mention a few of them, too. Our goal was to recommend software packages that, given all pros and cons, look like good default solutions to give a try. »If you could recommend one, and only one software for this job, what would it be?«
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