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Terminal Apps

entry written by the Player

I have been trying more and more to avoid graphical applications and to live in the Terminal. Some of the reasons I like using Terminal:

I like the active, versus passive, nature of using the Terminal to operate my computer.
When using the Internet, the Terminal is faster, and uses a lot less bandwidth.
There is less visual noise. I can concentrate more on what I'm doing. It helps provide focus.

Below are some the Terminal based apps that I use. If anyone knows of any Terminal software for reading a forum (ex. a Discourse-based forum) let me know! My email is at the bottom.

amfora

For browsing Gemini-space. It has bookmarks and tabs and a really easy to use interface.

Amfora

emacs

The best text editor on the planet ;-)

Emacs

lynx

I use lynx to view websites and gopher holes. It is *okay* at websites, depending on how much garbage is in them. But it is great at browsing gopher :)

lynx browser

toot

My tool for using Mastodon. toot tui provides a nice interactive interface, if you need it. I usually use toot timeline

toot mastodon client

wikipedia2text

Great for just getting the text of wikipedia artilces. My usage is usually: wikipedia2text "search term" > outfile.txt, and which point I can read the file using more or emacs or whatever I want.

wikipedia2text

wget

Pull the webpage and read it later! You can pull webpages, images, audio files, anything you can put it at.

wget

fim

View graphics.

fim

epy-reader

For reading epubs.

epy-reader

Links

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