Original question and text by @HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
Why software do you use in your day-to-day computing which might not be well-known?
For me, there are
twothree things for personal information management:
for shopping receipts, notes and such, I write them down using vim on a small Gemini PDA with a keyboard. I transfer them via scp to a Raspberry Pi home server on from there to my main PC. Because it runs on Sailfish OS, it also runs calendar (via CalDav) and mail nicely - and without any FAANG server.
for things like manuals and stuff that is needed every few months (“what was just the number of our gas meter?” “what is the process to clean the dishwasher?”) , I have a Gollum Wiki which I have running on my Laptop and the home Raspi server. This is a very simple web wiki which supports several markup languages (like Markdown, MediaWiki, reStructuredText, and Creole), and stores them via git. For me, it is perfect to organize personal information around the home.
for work, I use Zim wiki. It is very nice for collecting and organizing snippets of information.
oh, and I love Inkscape(a powerful vector drawing program), Xournal (a program you can write with a tablet on and annotate PDFs), and Shotwell (a simple photo manager). The great thing about Shotwell is that it supports nicely to filter your photos by quality - and doing that again and again with a critical eye makes you a better photographer.
Looks cool! How does it compare to something like Warpinator?
Warpinator is meant only to send/receive files and folders, and requires a supported device on both sides.
QuickDAV lets you send/receive/manage files (meaning you can copy and move files on the host from the client). It doesn’t require a supported device in both sides, since it works with either a WebDAV client or a browser. So as long as one device can run QuickDAV, and the other has at least a browser, it’ll work. (QuickDAV works with a Sega Dreamcast!)
Warpinator is incredibly easy to use. Open the app on both machines, select the other machine, select the file/folder, send.
QuickDAV is a bit harder. Open the app on one of the machines, then type the information from the app into the client/browser on the other machine. Then you can download/upload/manage.