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Recently discovered subs2srs. Super useful if you are learning a language. It can take a video file of a show or movie, extract the subs, and create Anki flash cards for each line of dialogue. It can even add snapshots, audio, and video clips to the flash cards (though video can have lengthy transcodes, so I just stuck with audio/snapshot on my cards).
Actual Window Manager.
If you have multiple monitors it allows you to have a different virtual desktop on each monitor and jump between them independently.
For the sysadmins under us (and anyone that needs it): TypeClipboard
It essentially is a sort of auto-typer typing what's in the current clipboard.
Great for remote mangement and typing in the password into a login field because CTRL+V doesnt work.
Can't believe this thread is still going aha
Recently saw an AskLemmy thread with 1k comments.
Was there an exodus somewhere recently?
I will forever recommend VoidTools' Everything ever since someone first introduced it to me some few years ago.
It indexes your entire filesystem and allows you to search for files by name (and by content for text files!) and even allowing RegEx searching for file names, and filters for certain file types and the like.
Everything is a godsend, I install it on every Windows machine I use. But it always makes me wonder why Microsoft doesn't integrate such search features in their own OS.
How is it different than switching to Enhanced search in Windows settings?
It uses an index that really works and doesn't take ages.
It's what search should have been if the windows indexer was written correctly
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Well the one that keeps me needing a Windows machine for on... Ableton Live + VST plug-ins.
Musicbrains Picard is also the best metadata autotag app I've used.
"Reclaim Windows" type powershell scripts, feel like group policy and powershell are underutilized by average desktop users. A lot of the things people complain about with windows you can control with it. Primarily a debain user myself but I need Windows to run Ableton on custom hardware so it is what it is.
Librewolf - browser Syncthing / synctrayzor - file sync Notepad++ - text editor WinSCP + putty + friends - interacting with Linux Zettlr - knowledge base / markdown editor Keepassxc + browser integrations
Total Commander, great Norton like file manager
Bulk Rename Utility
f.lux, better than windows built-in function.
Balena Etcher, so that you can make a boot able Linux drive π Jokes aside, Windirstat was one of my gems.
Mremoteng
Oh yeah thatβs a word π
I could never afford it but Rationale is very cool for the inner logician/thinker/schizo in me
Like mentally I literally consider it a cool gem