Ditto — The Complete Guide: Clipboard History for Windows, With No Account and No Cloud
Ditto extends the Windows clipboard and saves every copied item in a local database, so earlier values, clause numbers and text can be found and pasted again.
Guides and Articles
Converseen — The Complete Guide: Convert and Resize Hundreds of Site Photos at Once
Converseen is a free open-source batch image processor: convert, resize, rotate and compress hundreds of images at once, including HEIC photos and PDF pages.
QOwnNotes — The Complete Guide: Markdown Notes as Plain Files, With Sync and Encryption
QOwnNotes is a free open-source notes app that stores every note as a plain Markdown file, with Nextcloud sync, to-do lists and AES-256 encryption.
CherryTree — The Complete Guide: A Hierarchical Technical Notebook With Code, Tables and Equations
CherryTree is a free open-source notes app where each entry is a tree node, with rich text, code, tables and LaTeX equations — a technical notebook in one file.
Zim Desktop Wiki — The Complete Guide: A Desktop Wiki for Project Logbooks, Procedures and Know-How
Zim Desktop Wiki is a free open-source desktop wiki that stores every page as a plain text file — for project logbooks, procedures, meeting notes and know-how.
Kate — The Complete Guide: An Advanced Text and Code Editor for Scripts, Input Files and Data
Kate is an advanced open-source text and code editor from KDE: syntax highlighting for about 400 languages, split views, multi-cursor editing and a terminal.
KDiff3 — The Complete Guide: Comparing and Merging Input Files, Scripts and Configs
KDiff3 is a free open-source tool to compare and merge two or three files or folders — when two people edited one input file, or to compare config versions.
WinSCP — The Complete Guide: Moving Files to Servers, Compute Clusters and Controllers
WinSCP is a free open-source SFTP and FTP client for Windows: upload input files to compute clusters, download results and work with controllers, with sync.
File Converter — The Complete Guide: Convert and Compress Images and Video From the Right-Click Menu
File Converter adds image, video and audio conversion and compression to the Windows right-click menu — shrink site photos and clips before attaching them.
grepWin — The Complete Guide: Regex Search and Replace Across Thousands of Input Files
grepWin is a free open-source Windows tool for regex search and replace in many files — change a parameter in dozens of input files or find a value anywhere.
WinDirStat — The Complete Guide: A Visual Disk Map to Find Huge Model and Result Files
WinDirStat scans a drive or folder and shows space usage as a coloured treemap, so huge meshes, simulation results and backups stand out. Free and open source.
CopyQ — The Complete Guide: Searchable Clipboard History for Work Across Sheets, Programs and Reports
CopyQ is a free open-source clipboard manager that keeps everything you copied — text, HTML and images — with search, editing, tabs and tags. Great for reports.