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What are the best productivity tools for Linux?

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Apr 12, 2023

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7 Options Considered

Best productivity tools for Linux	Price	Platforms	Technology
-- Super Productivity	0	Windows, Linux, Mac, Web	Typescript
-- Org-mode	Free	-	-
-- Taskwarrior	-	Linux / OSX / Windows(Cygwin)	-
-- Joplin	FOSS	Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS	-
-- Todo.txt	$1.99	Android / iOS / CLI	-

Super Productivity

Top Pro

In browser or as desktop app

Top Con

Issue with local file syncing on desktop

Error on MacOS, still in development. See More

TrustingNemain's Experience

Great way to organize and time manage See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Web

Technology:Typescript

Top Pro

Awesome UI/UX design (Desktop App)

FerventPan's Experience

Best personal productivity app I've found See More

Top Pro

Data export

EncouragingAphrodite's Experience

Fully cross platform and values your privacy See More

Top Pro

Note taking

OptimisticCeres's Experience

Does what it claims See More

Top Pro

Customizable themes

Rodolphe MARBOT's Experience

Great UI/UX design, features are accurate See More

Top Pro

Free & open source

SupportiveZarik's Experience

Great app! See More

Top Pro

Full keyboard support

Top Pro

Take a break reminder

Top Pro

Lots of features

Top Pro

Github integration

Top Pro

Project bookmarks

Top Pro

Jira integration

Top Pro

Pomodoro timer

Org-mode

Top Con

Difficult to learn

Org-mode has a difficult learning curve since you have to learn all the keybindings and commands. It's especially difficult if you are not used to Emacs. See More

Top Pro

Very flexible

Org-mode is characterized by a flexible and versatile system with adaptability to different workflows, making it comparable as an Evernote alternative. It is at once simple and complex., which helps it to compete as an Evernote alternative. See More

Alexandra Johnson's Experience

I wish to find my soul mate for a serious relationship with whom I will spend part of my time. I like cooking and a clean house) I don’t do virtual, I don’t like to talk on the Internet for a long time. I will be glad to meet a good guy) my site https://v.ht/Datingcircle registration is free. See More

Top Pro

Versioning can be tracked and synced using Git or other VCS

Org files are plain text, and lend themselves well to version control. Emacs also has good integrations for various VCS. See More

Top Pro

Built-in agenda

Org-mode has some built-in agenda functionality. You can schedule tasks and assign various degrees of importance to each of them. Org-mode agenda can also be synced with Google Calendar. See More

Top Pro

Basic spreadsheet functionality

Org-mode has some basic spreadsheet functionality. Other than auto-formatting ASCII tables (a notoriously annoying problem), it also has support for LISP-like syntax to define equations or any other functionality that can be achieved through spreadsheets. See More

Top Pro

Out-of-the-box Latex support

Org-mode has out-of-the-box support for Latex: it can immediately parse equations (or other Latex markup) and can even compile notes to PDF or HTML. See More

Top Pro

Great sync support

Notes and to-dos can be synced with Trello, Toodledo, Simplenote, Orgmobile, or with tools like Git on Github, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Bitbucket, while WebDAV (with iOS and Android) can also be exported to PDF, mind map, LaTeX, HTML, Docbook, or txt. See More

Taskwarrior

Top Pro

Extensible

Taskwarrior has many front-ends, services, extensions, hook scripts, and capsules available. Taskwarrior keeps a list of contributed tools on their site. See More

Specs

Platforms:Linux / OSX / Windows(Cygwin)

Collaborative:no

Top Pro

Command line interface

The command line interface puts powerful filtering expressions, context, annotations, tags, due dates, reocurrence, and user-defined-attributes totally in your hands. It’s fast and low friction. See More

Top Pro

Lightweight and fast

Taskwarrior is written in the speedy C++ language. See More

Top Pro

Sync across devices

When used in conjunction with the Taskserver, it can sync tasks (conflict-free) across your Taskwarrior devices. This includes integration with Mirakel. See More

Top Pro

Customizability

Taskworrior allows you to define custom attributes and reports to your needs. See More

Top Pro

Self-hosted Taskserver

You can be in full control of your data. See More

Joplin

Add Video or Image

Top Pro

Open source

Peace of mind that there is no malicious piece of software in the app. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS

Sync:File System, OneDrive, Next Cloud, WebDav, DropBox, JoplinCloud, s3 (Beta)

Top Pro

Supports file attachments

Top Pro

Offline access

Top Pro

Active user forum with support from app creators

Support, troubleshooting, and new feature requests are easy to make at the user forum and you can contact the app creator directly. See More

Top Pro

Encryption

Top Pro

Supports tags for notes

Top Pro

Optional CLI interface

Provides a CLI interface for terminal lovers. See More

Top Pro

Nextcloud support

Top Pro

Supports markdown

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Supports Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. See More

Todo.txt

Top Pro

Full control over your to-dos

You have full access to the underlying programming rules, and therefore total control over your task lists. See More

Top Con

Nested tasks not supported

Many todo tasks for developers end up having sub tasks that need to be performed for a parent task to be completed, but the todo.txt format does not have any nesting. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android / iOS / CLI

Collaborative:no

Source model:Open source

Top Pro

Works with lots of apps for every platform

Todo.txt lists can be edited in virtually every text editor ever made and accessed on devices that support Dropbox. The user community has also created a number of apps for dozens of platforms. See More

Top Con

No support for reoccurring tasks

Tasks have dates corresponding to creation and completion, but there is no explicit support for due dates or for tasks that reoccur. See More

Top Pro

Easily editable format

Todo.txt can be edited in plain text and then displayed with neat styles. See More

GNOME To Do

Add Video or Image

Top Pro

In active development

They are working on grid and task planner like views. See More

Top Con

Linux only

No Windows or Mac support (though I guess you could make it work yourself, yay FOSS) See More

RageGamer's Experience

It works amazingly, and it's really useful. It's basically the Microsoft To Do for Linux. See More

Top Pro

Deadlines

Setting deadlines is pretty easy. See More

Top Pro

Priorities

You can give tasks priorities, and they are clearly defined. See More

Top Pro

Syncs to some other task lists

I thinks it needs the GNOME settings manager to sync to Google and Microsoft's To Do lists. See More

Top Pro

FOSS

That's good... See More

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