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Applications that I think are cool

I got something better to put here, but I thought this would look funnier.


This is just a side post talking about a few applicaitions I discovered this year, that I think are pretty cool in-concept.


Ferdi:

Ferdi is actually a fork of another program called Franz, but both serve the same function. They're browser clients that host all your social media accounts in one place for easy access. Franz is paid while Ferdi is free. 

Now I don't have many social media accounts (the less you have, the better) , but the program did allow me to host all my services in one place: Whatsapp, Gmail, Reddit, Discord, etc. You can also add custom websites that are not offered in-built by Ferdi, which allows me to check up on websites that aren't even social media sites.

Now that I'm maining Linux, I just set Ferdi to autostart in a designated workspace everytime I start my computer, and it justs sits there allowing me to check in on it anytime I want without having to use my main browser.

Ferdi

Obsidian / Zettlr:

I don't know how I made it this far without ever hearing about note-taking apps. Apparently, everyone knows about it and have been using it for productivity gains since 1933. Productivity is one of the many areas of my life that I desperately crave control over, so I thought it was a good idea to get into this racket.

The one I heard of the first, Obsidian, claimed to be new and different in the note-taking scene. It marketed itself as a 'second-brain' for you to store information and make connections and correlations. They have all the standard features of a note-taking app, but they also boast a matrix feature that allows you to view all your notes as single points that you can manually connect to each other to form a network of ideas. Now if that doesn't sound cool to you, you're probably not a huge nerd like me.

Zettlr is another note-taking app. I'm not exactly sure what Zettlr's extra features are. I know they allow for Pandoc and LaTex integration, but I haven't looked much past that. Zettlr shines in being an open-source app, and I've started to appreciate things like that a lot more after getting into Linux. You never realize how much power you can wield over your own data and programs until you actually get into open-source software.

I switched from Obsidian to Zettlr, but I haven't really done anything in either of those apps. I'd like to get into note-taking, but I don't know where to start. Stuff like this takes time to build up a habit, and time is something I constantly seem to be running out of.  

Obsidian 

Zettlr

Yeah that's about it. I thought it would be fun to write about these programs that I recently discovered, so I did.


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