List of applications/Documents

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Documents and texts

Text editors

Some of the lighter-weight Integrated development environments can also serve as text editors.

Vi-style text editors

Amp — Text editor written in Rust, that aims to take the core interaction model of Vim, simplify it, and bundle in the essential features required for a modern text editor.

https://amp.rs/ || amp^AUR

Aretext — Minimalist text editor with vim-compatible key bindings.

https://aretext.org/ || aretext^AUR

BusyBox vi — Provides "a small 'vi' clone". Can be invoked with busybox vi.

https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/editors/vi.c || busybox

Kakoune — Modal editor. Fewer keystrokes. Selection based, multi-cursor editing. Orthogonal design.

https://github.com/mawww/kakoune || kakoune

Helix — A post-modern modal text editor.

https://helix-editor.com/ || helix

Neovim — Vim's rebirth for the 21st century.

https://neovim.io/ || neovim

Neovim-Qt — Qt GUI for Neovim.

https://github.com/equalsraf/neovim-qt || neovim-qt

vi — The original ex/vi text editor.

http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ || vi

Vim — Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'vi', with a more complete feature set.

https://www.vim.org/ || with GUI: gvim, without GUI: vim

Vis — Modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like editor.

https://github.com/martanne/vis || vis

Emacs-style text editors

Console

dte — Small, easy to use editor with multi-tabbed interface, syntax highlighting, ctags navigation, etc.

https://craigbarnes.gitlab.io/dte/ || dte^AUR

e3 — Tiny editor without dependencies, written in assembly.

https://sites.google.com/site/e3editor/ || e3

slap — Sublime-like terminal-based text editor.

https://github.com/slap-editor/slap || slap^AUR

Tilde — Intuitive text editor with Windows-like key bindings.

https://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde/ || tilde^AUR

Graphical

Enki — Text editor for programmers.

http://enki-editor.org/ || enki-editor^AUR

FeatherPad — Minimal Qt5 plain text editor featuring a native dark theme and support for tabs, printing and syntax highlighting.

https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad || featherpad

Kate — Full-featured programmer's editor for the KDE desktop with MDI and a filesystem browser.

https://kate-editor.org/ || kate

L3afpad — Simple text editor forked from Leafpad, supports GTK 3.

https://github.com/stevenhoneyman/l3afpad || l3afpad

Nota — Easy to use text editor with a simple interface with support for tabbed documents, syntax highlighting for various languages, Focus mode, annotations, configurable fonts, and colors, a side panel with an integrated file browser, and more.

https://mauikit.org/ || maui-nota

QSciTE — Qt clone of the SciTE text and code editor.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/qscite/ || qscite^AUR

Visual Studio Code — Editor for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.

https://code.visualstudio.com || code

XEdit — Simple text editor for the X Window System.

https://www.x.org/wiki || xorg-xedit

Office suites

WPS Office — Proprietary office productivity suite, previously known as Kingsoft Office.

https://www.wps.com/ || wps-office^AUR

Word processors

Ted — Easy to use GTK-based rich text processor (with footnote support).

https://nllgg.nl/Ted/ || ted^AUR

WYSIWYG HTML editors

Desktop publishing

Scribus — Desktop publishing program. Uses hyphen and its language packs for hyphenation.

https://www.scribus.net/ || scribus

Presentations

Spreadsheets

Calligra Sheets — Powerful spreadsheet application included in the Calligra Suite.

https://www.calligra.org/sheets/ || calligra

LibreOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/calc/ || libreoffice-still or libreoffice-fresh

Database tools

For DBMS-specific tools, see:

GdaBrowser — Graphical tool to get a quick access to a database's structure and contents.

https://www.gnome-db.org/GdaBrowser || libgda

Sequeler — SQL client built in Vala and Gtk. It allows you to connect to your local and remote databases, write SQL in a handy text editor with language recognition, and visualize SELECT results in a Gtk.Grid Widget.

https://github.com/Alecaddd/sequeler || sequeler^AUR

Plain-text database utilities

These kinds of software are in a substance somewhat between text processing core utilities like awk, spreadsheets and production-level database system. And they usually come with a non-SQL command-line interface.

"Simplified" database software (beginner-friendly database tools)

Glom — Easy-to-use database designer and user interface.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glom/ || glom

Formula editors

Markup languages

AsciiDoc

Markdown

See also the official website and Wikipedia:Markdown.

Marked — Markdown parser and compiler built for speed.

https://marked.js.org/ || marked

Pandoc also supports Markdown.

Python implementations

Ruby implementations

mdless — Pure Ruby terminal-based markdown viewer/interpeter.

https://github.com/ttscoff/mdless || ruby-mdless^AUR

Markdown editors

ghostwriter — Distraction-free Markdown editor.

https://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/ || ghostwriter

ReText — Simple text editor for Markdown and reStructuredText.

https://github.com/retext-project/retext || retext

Typesetting systems

Lout — A lightware document formatting system. Reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript.

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lout || lout

TeX editors

With TeX, LaTeX and friends, creation of any scientific document, article, journal, etc. is made commonplace.

GNOME LaTeX — LaTeX editor for the GNOME Desktop including support for code completion, compiling and project management.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/GNOME-LaTeX || gnome-latex

TeXworks — Simple TeX front-end program modeled after TeXShop.

https://tug.org/texworks/ || texworks

TeX formula editors

KLatexFormula — GUI for generating images from LaTeX equations.

https://klatexformula.sourceforge.io/ || klatexformula^AUR

XML editors

Document converters

See also #Markup languages and PDF, PS and DjVu.

catdoc — Converter for Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and RTF files to text.

https://wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/ || catdoc

unoconv — Libreoffice-based document converter.

http://dag.wiee.rs/home-made/unoconv/ || unoconv

Bibliographic reference managers

Mendeley Desktop — Proprietary reference manager and academic social network.

https://www.mendeley.com/ || mendeleydesktop^AUR

Readers and viewers

PDF and DjVu

See PDF, PS and DjVu.

E-book

Bookworm — Simple, focused e-book reader for Elementary OS with EPUB, PDF, Mobipocket and Comicbook support.

https://babluboy.github.io/bookworm/ || bookworm

Lector — Qt based e-book reader with PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Mobipocket and Comicbook support.

https://github.com/BasioMeusPuga/Lector || lector^AUR

Some PDF viewers like apvlv, Atril, MuPDF, Okular and Xreader also support the EPUB format.

Comic book

Komikku — Online/offline manga reader for GNOME.

https://gitlab.com/valos/Komikku || komikku^AUR

Manga Reader — Manga reader for local files. Supports zip, rar, tar, 7z, cbz, cbr, cbt, cb7 files and also folders.

https://gitlab.com/g-fb/mangareader || mangareader^AUR

Some PDF and E-book viewers like Atril, Bookworm, Calibre, Evince, Foliate, Lector, MuPDF, Okular, Xreader and Zathura also support the Comicbook format.

CHM

Some PDF and E-book viewers like Cool Reader, FBReader and Okular also support the CHM format.

Document managers

Paperwork — Personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs.

https://openpaper.work/ || paperwork

Scanning software

See SANE#Frontends

Console

CuneiForm — Command line OCR system originally developed and open sourced by Cognitive technologies. Supported languages: eng, ger, fra, rus, swe, spa, ita, ruseng, ukr, srp, hrv, pol, dan, por, dut, cze, rum, hun, bul, slo, lav, lit, est, tur.

https://launchpad.net/cuneiform-linux || cuneiform

Graphical

Linux-Intelligent-Ocr-Solution — Easy-OCR solution and Tesseract trainer for converting print into text using either scanner or a camera.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/lios/ || lios-git^AUR

Paperwork — Personal document manager. It manages scanned documents and PDFs.

https://openpaper.work/ || paperwork

Note-taking software

Console

dnote — A simple command line notebook for programmers

https://github.com/dnote/dnote || dnote-cli-bin^AUR

Graphical

BasKet — Application for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. It can manage various types of information such as to-do lists, links, pictures, and other types, similar to a scrapbook.

https://basket-notepads.github.io/ || basket^AUR

GNOME Notes — Note editor for GNOME designed to remain simple to use.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Notes || gnome-notes

Joplin — Note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organized into notebooks. Based on the Electron platform.

https://joplinapp.org/ || joplin^AUR

Notejot — Stupidly simple sticky notes applet for elementaryOS.

https://github.com/lainsce/notejot || notejot^AUR

Notorious — Keyboard centric note-taking application with Markdown syntax highlighting support.

https://notorious.gabmus.org/ || notorious-git^AUR

TagSpaces — Offline personal data manager for managing of your local files. Based on the Electron platform.

https://www.tagspaces.org/ || tagspaces^AUR

TuxCards — Hierarchical notebook to enter and manage ever every kind of notes and ideas in a structured manner.

https://tuxcards.de/ || tuxcards

μPad — Note-taking app that helps you organise + take notes without restrictions. Based on the Electron platform.

https://getmicropad.com || micropad^AUR

Stylus note-taking

Xournal++ — Notetaking software designed around a tablet. C++ rewrite of Xournal with PDF annotation support.

https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp || xournalpp

Diary

Simple Diary — Simple and lightweight diary app with Markdown support.

https://github.com/johan-bjareholt/simple-diary-gtk || simple-diary-gtk^AUR

Mind-mapping

Semantik — Mind-mapping application for KDE.

https://waf.io/semantik.html || semantik^AUR

Sticky notes

KNotes — Program that lets you write the computer equivalent of sticky notes. Part of kde-pim.

https://kontact.kde.org/components/knotes.html^{[dead link 2022-09-20 ⓘ]} || knotes

Distraction-free writing

Quilter — Focus on your writing and write beautiful solid stories with the Focus Mode in tow in this Markdown editor.

https://github.com/lainsce/quilter || quilter^AUR

Story writing

Screenwriting

KIT Scenarist — Simple and powerful application for creating screenplays.

https://kitscenarist.ru/en/ || scenarist

Dictionary and thesaurus

Console

sdcv — Command line dictionary. It provides access to dictionaries in StarDict's format.

https://dushistov.github.io/sdcv/ || sdcv

Graphical

Kiten — Japanese reference and study tool. Part of kde-education.

https://apps.kde.org/kiten/ || kiten

QStarDict — Dictionary program written using Qt. The user interface is similar to StarDict.

http://qstardict.ylsoftware.com/ || qstardict

Spell checkers

See Language checking.

Translation and localization

Crow Translate — Simple and lightweight translator that allows to translate and speak text using Google, Yandex and Bing.

https://crow-translate.github.io/ || crow-translate^AUR

Pology — Set of Python tools for dealing with gettext/po-files.

https://techbase.kde.org/Localization/Tools/Pology || pology^AUR

Console

barcode — A tool to convert text strings to printed bars.

https://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/ || barcode

Graphical

QRab — Simply grabs QR code from screen and copies decoded text into clipboard.

https://qrab.sourceforge.io/ || qrab^AUR

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