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Name the tools you can't live without!

ShareX Greenshot Remote Desktop Connection Manager draw.io Midnight Commander Visual Studio Code Ditto Shottr ZTreeWin TiddlyWiki
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    ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I used ShareX, like Greenshot but has way more tools and is still being updated.

    #Screenshots #Screenshot Annotation #Image Annotation 271 social mentions

  2. Greenshot is a free and open source screenshot tool that allows annotation and highlighting using the built-in image editor.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I prefer Greenshot, the built-in image editor is a godsend for making quick markups.

    #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 116 social mentions

  3. Remote Desktop Connection Manager is a portable application that allows you to manage multiple desktop connections of the Remote Desktop Protocol.

    #OS & Utilities #Remote Desktop #Remote PC Access 8 social mentions

  4. Online diagramming application
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Check out Obsidian as an alternative to Joplin. I migrated over a year or so ago and haven't looked back. Very similar, but Obsidian has a ton of useful plugins, draw.io included. Sync isn't built in, but SyncThing has worked great for me there.

    #Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 714 social mentions

  5. GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #File Manager #FTP Client #File Explorer 26 social mentions

  6. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 1008 social mentions

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    Easy to use interface; Search and paste previous copy entries; Keep multiple computer's clipboards in sync; Data is encrypted when sent over the network; Accessed from tray icon or global hot key; Select entry by double click, enter key or drag drop…
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Bookmarks #Clipboard Manager 60 social mentions

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    Shottr is a free macOS screenshot app with scrolling screenshots, OCR, annotation and measurement instruments.
    For MacOS, I give my praise to Shottr (https://shottr.cc). The OCR and blur tools are on point.

    #Design Tools #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots 68 social mentions

  9. ZTreeWin is a fast and powerful text-mode file & directory manager, with many advanced features...
    Ztree file manager. While a lot of functions can be done with scripts, Ztree's bulk operations on arbitrarily tagged files make it a lot of operations painless & quick.

    #File Manager #FTP Client #Utilities 1 social mentions

  10. a non-linear personal web notebook
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 180 social mentions

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    ConEmu-Maximus5 is a full-featured local terminal for Windows devs, admins and users. Get better console window with tabs, splits, Quake style, copy+paste, DosBox and PuTTY integration, and much more.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Conemu if your a fan of that quake style terminal and tabbed terminals.

    #SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 18 social mentions

  12. mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Remote Desktop #SSH #Remote PC Access 21 social mentions

  13. Installation instructions for the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10.

    #Text Editors #Cryptocurrencies #Blockchain 187 social mentions

  14. Far Manager is a program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #File Manager #FTP Client #File Explorer 4 social mentions

  15. ScreenRec is free, lightweight software that enables the user to record or take the screenshot of the screen.
    I like snag it but I use Screenrec. I thought that Snag it was a license only prouduct and this is a freebie with some cool features.

    #Screenshots #Screenshot Annotation #Image Annotation 10 social mentions

  16. Tabby is a free and open source SSH, local and Telnet terminal with everything you'll ever need.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I've taken quite a liking to Tabby.

    #Terminal Tools #Command Line Tools #DevOps Tools 17 social mentions

  17. Single file executable the can do a lot of useful activities. Based on command line execution.

    #File Transfer #Web Servers #FTP Client 2 social mentions

  18. NimbleText is a text manipulation and code generation tool available online or as a free download.

    #Text Editors #Word Counter #Office & Productivity 12 social mentions

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