@thelinuxEXP wrt "in place of" notion, i use github / gitlab kanboard, but like notion, 1 has 2 b online, therefore appflowy & any type would be a great "in place of." thanks nick!
@thelinuxEXP yes, i've been using thunderbird for probably 10years now. Glad i didn't jump on evolution 10years ago. U r right 2 say that a PDF is not meant 2 b edited, but blank forms come 2 me in PDF format & w/o the "forms" option which i can fill in. i'm filling in 1 now 2 claim insurance in fact! As for vscode vs codium, sadly, they've alr penetrated so much of the market. i'm 1 of the few in my circles who is using codium.
@thelinuxEXP last random comment (I think?). This was a great video. I know and use some of the tools; some i heard about but want to check again like focalboard, and some I had never heard of and look promising, like anytype. I tried appflowy and it's super zen and pretty but I don't like the use of a local database... if it breaks all the data is lost, so they better not have bugs... and id rather have something self hosted and web-based ideally, though with syncthing it's not a huge problem.
@thelinuxEXP I am always amazed by your love of nextcloud. I love the concept but even with the light use I make of it I run into huge bugs so often that it's a love/hate relationship for me, with a bit more weight on the hate side...
@PierricD It’s been really stable for me, but I use the snap, which means I don’t get major updates immediately after release, they wait until everything has been patched before updating :)
@thelinuxEXP my latest bug was on android, without any update on the server recently. All the pictures previously auto-uploaded by the app were detected as changed and I had infinite notifications asking to keep local copy or server copy. I had to clear all the app 's data and set things up again from scratch.
@thelinuxEXP I use both obsidian (for my personal knowledge database) and logseq (for work) because I found out about logseq on the late. They are slightly different in concept, since obsidian is about structuring pages as markdown documents, and logseq is a "fractal bullet point" concept inside pages or dated journal entries. (1/)
@thelinuxEXP Great video Nick, but let me recomend you Taiga alternative to Trello : https://taiga.io/ app of the compnay that created Penpot https://penpot.app/ alternative to Figma!
PS: spanish open source 😘
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Regarding VSCodium: which marketplace is being used is based on a link in config, so if you REALLY need some extension that's not available in the default marketplace you can change it to the Microsoft's one.
It is against the Microsoft's TOS, but, realistically, who cares? 🙃
As a suggestion, would you consider adding chapters to your videos? Finding the right portion is a bit of a drag, and I don't really wish to use 15 minutes checking replacements to software I don't use.
(I was mainly interested in finding an Adobe Acrobat replacement, and couldn't find it when skipping.)
Thank-you for your videos, btw. I enjoyed the gnome45 -one and was much amused by the "loop is french for magnifying glass" -joke. I've since tried to invent my own variation.
@thelinuxEXP On the idea of replacing apps with better alternatives - How about a video on getting rid of Electron apps.
For example Joplin, or Obsidian use it and it's a inefficient mess really. Maybe something to consider for a future video.
@thelinuxEXP Are you able to do handwritten notes in logsec? I've been wanting a notebook app similar to OneNote (or Joplin) that does handwritten notes
@thelinuxEXP Have to say … this video illustrates another case of the OSS 95% problem that you mentioned in one of your videos. All of the mentioned open source apps are almost…just almost but not quite, at feature parity with their proprietary counterparts.
@thelinuxEXP I really love Obsidian and it would be great if it was open source, but since its data structure for saving your files is 1:1 with the OS, I don't feel nervous about losing anything to it in the future. Joplin is another open alternative to it, but last I used it I found that it saved files in a really messy way. Haven't tried Logsec.
But in this case I'm happy sticking with Obsidian.
Notion on the other hand... no offline mode or direct access to the files = absolutely not
@thelinuxEXP holy s**t, I did not know that obsidian was not open source, I already assumed that it was.
though, luckily there is affine which is another alternative to obsidian, perhaps I can that more than obsidian and later move my workflow towares affine instead
@thelinuxEXP You got a Thunderbird placement? Cool! 😎.
It's not free software but for those who need Acrobat Pro or Photoshop on Linux. Adobe now has a web version of both programs that runs in the browser (Photoshop only in Chromium-based browsers). You need the CC subscription.
But if you get a PSD and you need to open it briefly or do some minor editing, the web version is very good - definitely better than Gimp.
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