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Standard Notes
Writing

Standard Notes

Standard Notes is a free and open-source encrypted note-taking application created by Standard Notes, Inc., designed for long-term privacy and simplicity. It…

Diarly
Writing

Diarly

Diarly is a private journaling application designed to encourage daily reflection and personal growth, developed by the independent studio Diarly. It combines…

The Archive
Research

The Archive

The Archive is a macOS-only plain text note-taking application specifically designed for implementing the Zettelkasten method, created by Christian Tietze and…

RAWGraphs
Data

RAWGraphs

RAWGraphs is an open-source web application developed by the DensityDesign Lab and Calibro, designed to make complex data visualization accessible to…

Gephi
Data

Gephi

Gephi is an open-source, desktop-based network visualization and analysis software developed by the Gephi Consortium. It enables users to visually explore and…

Kepler.gl
Data

Kepler.gl

Kepler.gl is a high-performance web-based geospatial analysis tool for large-scale datasets, developed by Uber Technologies. It allows users to visualize large…

Flourish Studio
Data

Flourish Studio

Flourish Studio is a web-based platform for creating interactive data visualizations, presentations, and stories, developed by Kiln. It allows users to…

Charticulator
Design

Charticulator

Charticulator is a free, web-based tool developed by Microsoft Research that empowers users to design custom chart layouts visually, without needing to write…

Observable
Data

Observable

Observable is a collaborative, web-based platform, developed by Observable, Inc. (founded by Mike Bostock, creator of D3.js), for data analysis, visualization…

Datawrapper
Data

Datawrapper

Datawrapper is a web-based tool for creating responsive charts, maps, and tables for publication, developed by a Berlin-based company. It allows users…

Metabase
Data

Metabase

Metabase is an open-source business intelligence (BI) tool that allows teams to ask questions about their data and get answers in the form of charts and…

Apache ECharts
Data

Apache ECharts

Apache ECharts is a powerful, enterprise-level charting and visualization library for the browser, originating from Baidu and now a top-level Apache project…

fzf
Productivity

fzf

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder, an open-source project developed by Junegunn Choi. It takes lists of lines from standard input and launches…

tldr
Reference

tldr

tldr is a collection of simplified and community-driven man pages, an open-source project with contributions from thousands worldwide. Its core feature is…

Lazygit
Developer

Lazygit

Lazygit is a simple terminal UI for git commands, developed by Jesse Duffield as an open-source project. It allows users to interact with Git repositories…

direnv
Developer

direnv

direnv is an open-source extension for your shell that loads and unloads environment variables depending on the current directory, created by zimbatm. It…

bat
Developer

bat

bat is a `cat` clone with wings, an open-source project primarily developed by sharkdp. Its core feature is displaying file contents with syntax highlighting…

delta
Developer

delta

delta is a viewer for git and diff output, an open-source project developed by dandavison. It enhances `git diff` output with syntax highlighting, line…

zoxide
Productivity

zoxide

zoxide is an open-source smarter `cd` command, written in Rust by Ajeet D'Souza. Its core feature is to learn your frequent directories and allow you to jump…

fd
Developer

fd

fd is an open-source program that's a faster and user-friendlier alternative to `find`, written in Rust by David Peter. Its core feature is recursively…

navi
Developer

navi

navi is an open-source interactive cheatsheet tool for the command line, written in Rust by Denis Akhiyarov. Its core feature is to store and retrieve commonly…

Lex
AI

Lex

Lex is a minimalist, AI-powered writing editor developed by Every.org, an organization dedicated to creating tools for thought. Its core feature is an…

Sudowrite
Writing

Sudowrite

Sudowrite is an AI-powered writing assistant specifically designed for creative writers, developed by a team passionate about storytelling. Its core feature…

HyperWrite
AI

HyperWrite

HyperWrite is an AI-powered writing assistant developed by a startup aiming to augment human creativity and productivity. Its core feature is generating…

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