Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2022

• Vikunja: Boost Your Project Management To The Next Level

  Vikunja is a fairly new style open-source task management system that you can install it on your server or local machine.

  Vikunja features an organized workflow to manage your tasks and projects within a fancy clutter-free interface.

  Vikunja is formed of two parts an API core which is written in the Go programming language and a frontend which uses the Vue framework.

• Ambar: Libre Document Search Engine for Office, Text and PDF Documents

  Ambar is an open-source document search engine with automated crawling, OCR, tagging and instant full-text search. Ambar defines a new way to implement full-text document search into your workflow.

• FOSS Weekly #27 - Thunderbird Android, open-source keyboard, Apple drivers in Asahi, and more | FOSS Weekly

  Here is everything that has happened in the open source world in the past week. The highlights include a preview of Thunderbird on Android, the availability of Apple Silicon GPU driver in Asahi Linux, and releases from Blender, Tor Browser, PipeWire, etc.

• Playing with ActivityPub

  ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter

  It’s anyone’s guess how this all shakes out. As an active user of Twitter, it’ll be sad if it goes away. But in the meantime, let’s have some fun with ActivityPub.

• Markdownify: A Minimal Yet Feature-rich Markdown Editor

  Markdownify is a simple yet feature-rich Markdown document editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

  It is built on top of Node.js technologies, Electron, and using Marked library to parse Markdown, Showdown library, CodeMirror, and highlight.js.

  Although it is a lightweight app, it comes packed with many useful features, clutter-free interface with full-screen distraction free mode, LaTeX support, and PDF file export.

• Task Coach Is a Multi-platform Task Manager

  Task Coach is an open-source lightweight task management app that help you keep track and organize your messy task and project workspaces.

  It is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. There is also an Android separate project.

  With Task Coach, you can add your tasks, organize them in lists, categories, or tags, export them to software and programs as Outlook, Claws Mail, Apple Mail and Thunderbird.