January 4, 2024

You don’t need new apps (or to search the web) to get things done

  • You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files1
  • You don’t need a new app to take notes2
  • You don’t need a new app to check what takes up disk space and clean your drive3
  • You don’t need a new app to rename multiple files4
  • You don’t need a new app to merge pdf5
  • You don’t need a new app to play music, podcasts and videos6
  • You don’t need a new app to convert music files7
  • You don’t need a new app to follow websites, blogs, pages, et cetera you like8
  • You don’t need a new app to write/edit text9
  • You don’t need a new app to count words in a file10
  • You don’t need a new app to review edits someone else made (i.e. accept/reject edits like in Word)11
  • You don’t need a new app to do computations, pivot tables, process text (or numbers)12
  • You don’t need a new app to read webpages offline13
  • You don’t need a new app for your zettelkasten14
  • You don’t need a new app for a spreadsheet15
  • You don’t need a new app for producing beautiful” documents - an old one will do16
  • You don’t need a new app to manage your mailbox like a super human - an old one will do17
  • You don’t need a new app for your address book - an old one will do18
  • You don’t need to connect to the web to check French or Italian conjugation19
  • You don’t need to connect to the web to check the definition of a word20
  • You don’t need to connect to the web to figure the commands you need to run your thing - you can do this locally21
  • You don’t need to connect to the web to find new programmes or utilities - you can do this locally22
  • You don’t need to connect to the web to display time of a time zone - you can do this locally23
  • You don’t need to connect to the web to figure local time given the time and date of a different time zone - you can do this locally24
  • You don’t need to open your browser to check that you are connected to the internet25

  1. Use grep: https://yctct.com/tag↩︎

  2. Use a text editor and text files.↩︎

  3. Use the utility du; to learn more read: https://yctct.com/check-disk-space↩︎

  4. Use rename.ul; read: https://yctct.com/rename-multiple-files↩︎

  5. Use pdfunite; to learn how to use it read: https://yctct.com/merge-pdf↩︎

  6. Use vlc, nvlc or cvlc↩︎

  7. Use ffmpeg; see https://yctct.com/tagged/ffmpeg↩︎

  8. Use a RSS reader.↩︎

  9. Use Vim, Nano or the text editor is already installed on your computer↩︎

  10. Use wc; to learn how to use it read https://yctct.com/count-words-file↩︎

  11. Use diff and patch; to learn more, read: https://yctct.com/diff-patch↩︎

  12. Use Datamash; to learn more read: https://yctct.com/tagged/datamash↩︎

  13. Use Pandoc↩︎

  14. See: https://yctct.com/zettelkasten↩︎

  15. Use Datamash: https://yctct.com/tagged/datamash or LibreOffice installed by default on GNU/Linux Trisquel↩︎

  16. Use Pandoc and LaTeX: https://yctct.com/tagged/pandoc↩︎

  17. Use Mutt: https://yctct.com/mutt-gpg-mbsync-msmtp-notmuch↩︎

  18. Use abook↩︎

  19. See: https://yctct.com/tagged/verbiste↩︎

  20. See: https://yctct.com/tagged/sdcv↩︎

  21. See examples on the man pages↩︎

  22. Use apropos: https://yctct.com/cli#apropos↩︎

  23. Use date: https://yctct.com/timezone↩︎

  24. Use date: https://yctct.com/local-time↩︎

  25. Open a Terminal and run $ ping www.trisquel.info↩︎


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