Alternative PRODUCTIVITY apps on Linux

Here's some recommendations for building an alternative productivity suite on Linux.

0:00 Intro
1:40 'All-in-ones'
3:48 To-Do/Task Managers
6:26 Calendars
8:45 Email
10:45 RSS Feeds
11:35 Note-taking
16:05 Cloud-storage
17:13 Office Suites

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[JohnCastleSmokeless]

The thing is that _many_ of these apps are also available on Windows or macOS. Even if you don't switch to Linux whole-cloth, just switching to these apps is a _massive_ favor to yourself.

[arxaaron]

Just say no to subscription softwares. Period. Any softwares you can't install, control, use and own locally will soon have their Feudal subscription slumlords owning you.

[JosephDickson]

My honorable mentions: RSS: Liferea, Notes: GNote.

[podhditalia]

I switched from evernote to Joplin since last January, currently satisfied

[ronsingh]

Excellent list of apps, I will be checking a few out. Much gratitude for the work you put ito this. Subbed, liked and shared to 2 others🙂

[cominup]

I love how many people have commented how long they've been following you. I, too, subscribed a long time ago, but I haven't really seen notifications for a long time. Tonight, when you popped up, I was like "wow, this guy was one of the originals". I'll be sure to click the bell!

[arunachaleshwark]

Yes sir. I procrastinate by watching videos to get more productive 🌚😓. Also, nice to have you back Blaine

[JoachimJacob]

I like this video. I've been following you for years, like the app focus. Would be nice to have some more video's about apps in the future. Perhaps centered around a topic, for example PDF reading and annotating and signing.

[tdd]

Joplin & Obsidian

Been using Joplin for years and years. Super flexible and powerful. I use it as my "second brain, " but more importantly, I use it to organize my writing projects (poetry, short stories, memoir, novels). It's perfect for compiling research and for writing the works themselves.

I have had zero issues syncing Joplin across two desktops and my phone. FYI.

Obsidian (proprietary) is a similar program many people bring up in the same conversations (Join and Obsidian have nearly identical functionality). It too is powerful & reasonably flexible. I have used both Joplin & Obsidian and, though it has its merits, Obsidian just isn't as powerful nor flexible when compared to Joplin, but you would probably have to be a power user to care. What Obsidian does have is a smoother interface and its Canvas feature is killer. In fact, I keep Obsidian around just to play with ideas using the Canvas feature. (Note that Obsidian's Kanban feature is superior as well, I'll give them that.) But that's it. I use Joplin for everything else.

[schaumi]

I think that "Planner" is also called "Planify" because on some Software Centers there is also a different program called "Planner" which is a project management toll with gantt diagrams.

[roberttranceedm]

Obsidian is a book writer's best friend!

[Hun_Uinaq]

For me, personally, the productivity software that made the biggest difference in my life by far when I was using Linux would have to be Org-mode on Emacs. Phenomenal software.

[raphaelkyembe]

Great content. We need more videos of apps than those of distros.

[StarcrossTV]

I must admit I'm a tad disappointed that Kontact, the suite KDE uses wasn't mentioned. It might be pretty old but its quite powerful and integrates beautifully with KDE. It could use some more love and maintainence though to compete with Thunderbird as a PIM (Personal information management) suite

[DSTechMedia]

Geary has been my e-mail app ever since I got into Elementary.
I have it on Ubuntu handling 3 different e-mail accounts currently.
I'm also a long-time user of Evolution, and I'll manage e-mail through it as well. But I use Evolution primarily for calendar/events syncing & reminders. I keep to-do lists in it as well.
My current RSS client is Fluent Reader. I love it.
For notes I split between Typora(a MD editor) and Notes-Up. Notes-Up I use because it saves the entire notebooks as a SQL database file, and I just keep that in a shared Nextcloud folder. The issue is there's no client for a smart-phone.

[soumyameta]

1. Affine (for management and notes)
2. onlyoffice (for office works )
3. Ferdium ( for handling many social media web apps )
4. Thunderbird ( for email )
5. Appflowy ( another note taking software with simplicity)

[Karla_Finch-Cluff]

I need to check out Thunderbird again and a lot of these others to get a feel for what feels best. Thanks again!

[atlantic_love]

I'd love it if you did an "Alternative DEVELOPMENT apps on Linux" video.

[renzoxd]

for note taking or something like notion i would recommend anytype

[Lanzetsu]

I have so many OS in different computers and even on my gf's computer and the work computer... so I tend to configure Thunderbird... and I like it for mails, HOWEVER after trying for already 1 year now MailSpring... it is SO HARD sometimes to not blow away all the Thunderbird installations and replace them with Mailspring. At my heart I know Thunderbird is better overall, but the aesthetics of Malspring and easy to use/find options are just lovely. New Thunderbird is looking sharp tho, but I kind of fell in love with Mailspring.
BTW I am in need of creating a Wiki but I have no clue on what to use that doesn't require a lot of knowledge in programming, I was checking on stuff that can be setup with Apache so I can have a local address to get it on LAN but I am still hesitant on what software to use for the creating the wiki itself, any suggestion?