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

henrikx@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Open Source@lemmy.ml – 413 points –

For me it is the note taking/PKMS tool SilverBullet.

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Borg for backup. I'm really surprised it's not more widely known. It's an incredible piece of software.

Also, not really lesser known software, but a lesser known feature of file systems including the ones we use in FOSS operating systems: extended file attributes - useful to add metadata to files without modifying them.

As an add-on (sort of) to Borg, I was told about Vorta yesterday and installed it to run scheduled, encrypted backups of my local machine to an external drive, but you can also ssh to a remote server if you wish. Works like a dream.

Borg, Vorta, Star Trek is everywhere. Why did they name these for the evil guys? Could have named it "The Sisko", everyone know he is infallable.

I use Kopia because it's cross platform (don't know much about Borg so perhaps if is too). Works really well with little interaction.