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What are your favorite non-foss apps? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by AHYN018@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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I know some of you have gone complies FOSS, but I believe if the developer wants to make money from their apps, there's noting wrong with it, as long as they are ethical. So what are your favorite non-foss apps?

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[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have much experience with Scrivener, but it came up when I was looking for writing software, and clearly it's very popular.

The reasons I ended up rejecting it were, mainly, lack of Android and Chromebook/Linux support and lacking sync capabilities (looks like there's Dropbox and iTunes sync support now). The pricetag seems reasonable, though.

After a lot of searching, I ended up with Obsidian, and love it to bits. It syncs flawlessly from my Mac desktop to my Android phone and my Chromebook, it has a superb plugin development community, and seems to be able to do almost everything Scrivener does, but for free.

[–] weirdwriter@tweesecake.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@renard_roux @foss Do you know if it can output in Shun mamuscript format with a plugin?

[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure about direct Shunn / Standard Manuscript Format export, but essayist Jamie Todd Rubin has a great serie of articles about going paperless with Obsidian , and episode 25 has a workflow specifically for this (using Pandoc externally to compile).