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What is your favourite open source software that you discovered in the past year, that you can no longer live without? (lemmy.ml)

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Mine is Local Send which is a FOSS alternative similar to air drop that works across a variety of devices.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

LogSeq notes: https://github.com/logseq/logseq A different approach to note taking & journal. Very nice looking, rich plugin ecosystem, could use some performance boost but I think they are working on it

My true love is Org Mode and Emacs, but honestly LogSeq feels similar in a weird way with its extreme simplicity but also confusingly powerful and open ended design.

I am EXTREMELY impressed with LogSeq, I showed it to someone recently and they straight up told me "this is the best software I have ever tried in my life!"... admittedly they didn't know about PKMs, external brains, obscure powerful note taking, thinking and tasktracking software but also that is kind of the point... they could immediately see the power of these type of tools even though they didn't know anything about them because Logseq is so straightforward and powerful.

Logseq + Syncthing (my favorite software period) is an INCREDIBLY powerful combination and honestly shits on 99.99% of office/task tracking/productivity/filesharing software from boutique productivity companies and multi-billion dollar tech companies alike. Like yeah... Syncthing isn't a file backup utility, and Logseq has no built in simultaneous editing capacity in its current version but when you are talking about syncing edits of tiny markdown plain text files you can just basically forget all of that crap and just pretend you and the person you are sharing Logseq notes with are magically the same user making edits on a single device... and so long as you are reasonable with your editing pace and approach you can forget the nightmare of the cloud/corporate silos/subscription/surveillance-capitalism... COMPLETELY in the realm of notes and note sharing.

Crank the simple file versioning up to like 40 on your Syncthing share folder for Logseq, deal with the extremely rare file sync whenever it pops up through Syncthing's GUI, preferably have one of the devices in the share network be a phone or raspberry pi that is online most of the time and never look back!