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I've tried a few options, but I've stuck with khal for years now.It works smoothly [1], supports multiple calendars, syncs with vdirsyncer (details in its documentation), and provides both CLI and TUI interfaces that make events easy to see, edit, and manage.
The CLI interface is especially handy for integrating khal with other apps like neomutt and taskwarrior for example. For instance, I have a keybinding that lets me export calendar invites from neomutt directly into khal. There's also a list of tools (including one for khal) listed in the neomutt documentation if you're curious.
I use it to manage both my personal and professional calendars, syncing them bidirectionally with vdirsyncer. The only drawback I’ve encountered is that some commands can be a bit cumbersome—but I solved this by writing my own script to make khal’s commands more intuitive for my workflow. That flexibility could be seen as another strength of khal ;)
[1] That's my experience, but others here have reported it can be slow in some cases.
Tiling WMs are incredibly powerful tools for boosting productivity. Over the years, I've tried several: awesome, i3, and dwm. Eventually, I settled on bspwm, which I’ve used for years. It offers far more than you'd expect from a traditional tiling WM—especially thanks to its excellent IPC. That’s why I couldn’t switch to Wayland for the longest time—none of the available options came close to what bspwm gave me.
But just two days ago, I discovered niri, and it completely changed my perspective. It felt like the first time I ever used a tiling WM—like a whole new world had opened up.
Niri fits into the same category as bspwm but takes window management even further. It introduces infinite horizontal scrolling, a novel approach that complements traditional tiling layouts. Combined with a robust IPC (something essential for my workflow), niri allows you to arrange windows dynamically in ways I’ve never seen before—including tabbed layouts that act as a vertical counterpart to its horizontal scroll.
Here’s a short video that only scratches the surface of niri’s potential, but it’s enough to spark your imagination about how customizable and flexible it really is. Personally, I’m deeply grateful to the developers for giving me a reason—and a way—to finally switch to Wayland. I had been desperately waiting for a reliable, robust, and fully-featured tiling WM for Wayland—and what I got was a unicorn I never even imagined.
Not being a developer myself, the wording may not be the best sorry. The take home message was that Mastodon seems more prone to external development based on its protocol and the fact that more than 20 apps already exist (all platforms included).
Outside of using several apps to use Mastodon, I personaly rely on its API only to add Mastodon posts as comments on my static blog.
As far as I know Bluesky protocol is open-source but not its main app. Also, there are several apps available to use Mastodon. Additionally, note that Bluesky uses the AT Protocol (developed by Bluesky) while Mastodon uses ActivityPub (W3C standard) which is more friendly for third-party devs.
As far as federation is concerned it's still mostly centralized with Bluesky while Mastodon is fully federated.
Something I personaly like as well with Mastodon is that the feeds don't use algorithms.
Rofi is certainly a great choice, though it relies on scripts to customize it to your needs. These scripts can be anywhere from extremely basic to insanely complex but you have to create them.Personaly I use it as:
- an app launcher
- a clipboard manager
- an infobar to show things like the date/time, memory usage, disk space, battery level, wifi signal…
- an omnibar to perform an internet search, quick units conversions
- a calculator for simple math
- a bookmark manager (list, open, edit, add, remove)
- a password/2FA token manager (list, edit, add, remove, autofill internet fields)
- a wifi manager
- a vpn manager
I rely on cli tools for a lot of things too. Here's a list:
tmux: terminal multiplexerzsh (with fzf zsh completion): shellfzf: fuzzy finderdoas: sudo replacementbat: cat replacementfd: find replacementadvcpmv: cp/mv replacementeza: ls replacementzenith: htop replacementtrash-cli: trash managementneomutt: email client (notmuch is a most recommended addition)neovim (and plugins): text/code editorbuku: internet bookmarks managertut: mastodon clientucollage: image viewerudevil: (un)mounting removable devices and networks without a passwordmagic-tape: youtube search/download and morerofi: used with scripts to do a lot of thingspass: password manageryazi: file exploreriwd: wireless managerkhal: calendar and webdav sync with vdirsyncertaskjuggler: complete task managernewsboat: feed aggregatorfwupd: firmware updaterchawan: web browserncmpcpp: mpd-clientduf: disk usageabook: contacts manager
I have some of them detailed here.This GitHub also has a long list.
Edit: added abook and duf to the list
Very nice! That's a pretty big boy ;)
Emacs is a nice one as well. Its approach and purposes are just different. But in my opinion difference has a lot of benefits, so long life to all the editors and a big thank you to the wonderful devs who offer these tools to us (remember to buy them a coffee or more if you can).
I personally started with vim and I'm now using neovim for years. And I have to admit that it's just an editor... But a perfectly optimized one.
It requires some efforts to learn the basic useful features (like horizontal and vertical motion) but I quickly saw its potential. What made me stick to it and willing to invest even more efforts is the fact that you build it to fit your needs like a glove through the interface customization, no limit and powerful keybindings remapping, and a collection of plugins for everything (without making it slow or bloated). With the right plugins, this editor can handle any regular typing or specific coding language, and makes your workflow way more efficient thanks to a great project management approach and/or speedy fuzzy finder file explorer.
I've barely started a series of posts dedicated to this incredible editor. Whether or not you're using a vim or neovim, I'd recommend to stay curious because there's other editors out there to be aware of and one may prefer them. I've tried quite some of themwhen moving to neovim but this one was just the one for me.
I've talked about few plugins I use if you're interested: https://www-gem.codeberg.page/ I'm lacking motivation to write so this list is far from complete but maybe you'll find some inspiration.
No worries, the confusion is easy to make. Looks like nobody here is using this plugin, or maybe this was a dumb question.
The 13 has touchscreen option as well but I've missed the budget limit. My bad!
I don't own one but I'm looking at the framework 13 for my next machine. It has great reviews and fully support Arch. Its price is the main criticism against this machine, though there's some arguments to justify it but no need to open a trolling post :)
I don't own one but I'm looking at the framework 13 for my next machine. It has great reviews and fully support Arch. Its price is the main criticism against this machine, though there's some arguments to justify it but no need to open a trolling post :)
I've looked at the pull requests again and realized that this feature was already requested in June 2024.
In the absence of response to this ticket, the hope to see it implemented is pretty low though :( Not sure how I can fully benefit of this plugin then...
I know it's confusing. This is a neovim plugin called obsidian, not the obsidian software. That's why I put a link to it but I may edit my post to make it more clear. Thanks.
I've looked at the pull requests again and realized that this feature was already requested in June 2024.
In the absence of response to this ticket, the hope to see it implemented is pretty low though :( Not sure how I can fully benefit of this plugin then...
I used to use the famous Zathura for a long time, but it's really minimal. Sioyek is an incredible pdf reader so overlooked.Amongst a lot of other things, it lets you:
- quickly preview or jump to figures/references/equations/tables… (even if the PDF does not have links)
- search paper names in any search engine you like (defaults are google scholar and library genesis) by middle clicking on their name or using keybindings
- mark locations (using lower case for local mark and upper case for global mark) or create bookmarks for quick navigation
- highlight text
- save annotations in a local database or embed them in a new version of the PDF file to share them with others
- automatically reload a file when it changes
I wrote a brief overview of it quite some time ago.
Seems outside of what one would expect from a terminal. There's dedicated app to handle this task.
Didn't hear of pimsync before. Thanks for sharing.I don't think I'm ready to switch yet based on its current limitations, but I'll definitely keep an eye on it.