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RvTV95XBeo , in What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?

Google Keep

My wife and I use it all the time for things like grocery lists, packing lists, etc. It's nice to be an able to collaborate in real time on a checklist, and I haven't found an app that can replicate that convenience.

Lemongrab ,

Notesnook is OSS, e2ee, and cloud synced, with the ability to share notes. See if it fits your requirements.

souperk , in What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?
@souperk@reddthat.com avatar

It may sound boring, but I would appreciate a good open source alarm app for android.

Lemongrab ,
shrugal , in What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?
@shrugal@lemm.ee avatar

Notion + OneNote/Samsung Notes

There is a myriad of open source notes apps, but none of them really hit the spot for me.

techognito ,
@techognito@lemmy.world avatar

appflowy.io is getting really good as a notion replacement

ChallengeApathy , in Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather

Best weather app I've used. FOSS but unlike most FOSS weather apps, it doesn't FEEL like your typical FOSS alternative.

phoenixz ,

So it doesn't feel better than the typical bloated half working must pay now and "sacrifice your first born" app?

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

I think they mean it doesn't feel like it was designed in 1999

jsomae , in HeliBoard, a privacy-conscious open-source Android keyboard based on AOSP/now-unmaintained OpenBoard, is now available on F-Droid

More discussion on lemmy here, including how to enable gesture typing (I'm very impressed with the gesture typing)

uninvitedguest ,
@uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca avatar

You are the first person I've encountered to say they are impressed with the gestured typing. All the other comments I've encountered, myself included, all seem to dislike it. It is the main thing that prevents me from switching from an offline Gboard - I am spending far too much time correcting inputs.

What about it impresses you?

Lemongrab , in So I wanted to opensource my website, but I have some questions.

Changes like contributions to your repo? Or changes like people can fork and modify the source code themselves?

Lemongrab , in I'm looking for a task time tracking app (android, and/or desktop Linux)

I think you are looking for Simple Time Tracker: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.razeeman.util.simpletimetracker/

Kalcifer OP ,
@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works avatar

I've been using this for the past day, and it is a great app! It seems to cover exactly what I'm looking for, and it's a pretty well designed app. Thank you for the recommendation!

Lemongrab ,

Np, I'm glad my random app testing has paid off. Has a nice UI as well which is rare in FOSS.

TheAnonymouseJoker , in [OUTDATED POST] Floorp, a Firefox Fork with an awful name, has moved some components inside a private submodule.

I will not dog anyone on using Floorp or all these forks, but... just take 10 minutes and harden Firefox yourself? Transparent process, and you learn a few things by doing the utmost minimum things. What if Librewolf tomorrow goes closed or adds weird stuff like that Chrome fork Thorium? Firefox will not.

Lemongrab ,

What did Thorium add? Where can I find out more.

0x2d ,
Lemongrab ,

Oh that. Haha. Harmless but weird nonetheless to be in the source.

pineapplelover , in What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

Firefox. Fuck chrome amiright

onion , in What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

Lemmy

(applause)

Fake4000 , in What lesser known free and open source software do you use daily to improve your life?

Definitely Syncthing.

Great app to sync my phone with my laptop.

christophski ,

I have an extensive syncthing set up but I find the mobile app a battery hungry

Lemongrab ,

Syncthing-fork which fixes battery drain issue and others as well. I'll just leave this here for your battery needs: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

aiden , in Yuzu & Citra devs fold to Nintendo's demands | Pay $2.3million to settle, take down github, domains, patreon, discord, with immediate effect.

It's a sad day. Fuck Nintendo.

paradox2011 , in Recommend me some Quality of Life Android applications
  • Audile: offline, trackerless music recognition.
  • Keepassdx + Heliboard: both excellent apps in their own right that create a smoother experience of mundane phone use, but they also integrate rather well together and Heliboard will often pop Keepassdx in to its suggestion bar when you enter a log in page. It's been really nice for me.
  • FUTO voice input: speech to text for those who don't want to use Google speech services. Frankly, the FUTO app works better than googles app anyways, it always handles grammar correctly as long as you speak relatively clearly, and integrates with Heliboard nicely.
  • Tailscale: for those who need VPN access to their other devices.
  • Thunder : a Lemmy client with compatibility with Lemmy's recent server side changes and also has a decent UI/UX
  • tasks.org: fantastic, customizable to do app with various syncing options.
  • Magic Earth: privacy respecting maps/directions for those who don't want google maps. (NOTE: closed source. Here is the privacy policy, terms of use and description of their business model at the bottom of their FAQ)
  • Myne: e-book downloader.
  • Markdownr: convert webpages to markdown. Great option for mobile, if I'm on desktop I use the Joplin web clipper plug in for Firefox.

Seconding Newpipe, excellent app.

EDIT: added links to the terms, policies and FAQ of Magic Earth, as it is not open source.

Lemongrab ,

Magic Earth is closed source

paradox2011 ,

That's correct. I didn't notice the c/opensource that this post came from, disregard that entry if you're a %100 FLOSS user. I'm still happy to recommend it in general though. It's privacy respecting as far as I am able to verify by their policies and TOS, and it has been a huge quality of life improvement for me on mobile. Hopefully organic maps or other mobile clients for OsmAnd continue to progress 🍻

Lemongrab ,

I do agree. I wish they were open source

Helix , in Zed - A code editor written in rust by Atom's Developer.

I'd love to have a vscodium alternative written in a faster and more efficient language. Most editors and IDEs don't quite fit my workflow, while vscodium does.

sag OP ,
@sag@lemm.ee avatar

Yep, I also want a good alternative to codium which run fastly on Potato. That's why I am trying different Editor now days like Lite-Xl and other more.

Lemongrab ,

Does kate from KDE suffice?

sag OP ,
@sag@lemm.ee avatar

Didn't try it yet. But, isn't it just like Gedit?

Lemongrab ,

Closer to Geany or Sublime. I haven't used gedit before though. Kate has language server back end integration, add-on support, integrated terminal, and other features. Geany might be a good option, though I know nothing of its speed. Kate seemed fine but again no idea.

sag OP ,
@sag@lemm.ee avatar

Just tried Kate. It's so great. Have all features which I want Thanks for suggestion

Lemongrab ,

Np, glad it was useful.

GenderNeutralBro , in Enshittification of GitHub?

The only thing surprising is that it took Microsoft almost three years to turn on the shit-spigot.

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