foss-tools/README.md

day-to-day-open-source-tools

Curated list of tools to use everyday.

Each point includes a quick description that makes the choice easy for anyone, to pick up the tool he needs:

• theme (one key word: text edit, or mindmap)
• pros
• cons
• complexity (+ = beginner,++ = specific, +++ = expert)
• use-case

📏 One rule to add a tool : you must use it ;)

Drawing

excalidraw

• theme: graphical
• pros: easy to use, nice results (sketch-like)
• cons: online
• complexity: +
• use-cases: simple diagram for your presentation

Online: https://excalidraw.com/ Open source source: https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw

Photo editing

Darktable

• theme: graphical
• pros: efficient, work with camera raw files, a lot of postprocessing filters
• cons: a bit complex to grasp
• complexity: ++
• use-cases: Post-processing of photos

Open source source: https://www.darktable.org/

Video editing

Shotcut

• theme: graphical
• pros: simple, easy to use for cutting and apply simple filter on the videos, adding audio tracks
• cons: lack some more advanced features
• complexity: +
• use-cases: Cutting video, improve brightness or adding an audio track

Open source source: https://shotcut.org/

Mail encryption

Enigmail (Thunderbird add-on)

• theme : encryption
• pros : easy to use, graphical
• cons : default setups
• complexity: +
• use-cases : encrypt and read emails with OpenPGP

Online: https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/ code: https://enigmail.net/index.php/en/download/source-code