I’m on the brink of needing to figure that out for tens of thousands of pages. Someone was recommending tesseract. Right now for small tasks I’m generally able to get away with using the one built into Acrobat.
As far as other work stuff goes, drag and droppable ffmpeg and imagemagick batch files are life savers.
tesseract works pretty well! you can loop that and ghostscript over a whole bunch of files pretty trivially
I should really make a lossless cut equivalent for tesseract PDF workflows, no one else has yet, huh
For project management, if shit gets even reasonably complex, JIRA is just about the only usable solution that I’ve seen lately (Osana and Trello are both fine if you’ve got a small project/team or only use them for design/pre-implementation tracking). JIRA Server is a lot nicer than JIRA Cloud specifically for PjM stuff; however, that also means that you to set up your own hosting/do your own admin.
It’s sad that Atlassian keeps trying to make JIRA work worse by hewing to current web design trends; then again, I’m the person who pitched a fit in a meeting because somebody said “we need to avoid designing a piece of shit like Craigslist”.
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Airtable is supposed to be good
I use Alfred constantly
Scapple I use a ton for creative projects
OH yeah! I use Foobar.
This is my taskbar:
Firefox, Discord, GIMP, Audacity, Visual Studio Code, Foobar, OpenMPT, Reaper, Spotify, Clip Studio Paint
i used to use spotify when starbucks was giving me premium but i guess since i’m on medical leave technically i’m not working so they no longer pay for it.
Spotify stopped working on PPC Macs only just last year, I discovered after trying to run it a few days ago. Reading further, people in the forums were talking about Youtube Music as the alternative but it was consuming 50% of their processors to play a song, and whether that was or wasn’t justifiable.
My current taskbar:
Internet Explorer/Firefox
File directory
Spotify
Snipping tool
paint.net
GIMP
LibreOffice
Calculator
Control Panel
Tiled
Aseprite
Google Earth Pro
Audacity
Reaper
Blender
Clickteam Fusion
I download software semi-occasionally but if I don’t stick in on my taskbar I’ll forget it’s there and I won’t use it. So keeping things on the taskbar reminds me that I have it and was interested enough in it to download it and install it so I should use it maybe sometime.
Some of these I’ve only dabbled in like Blender, GIMP and Clickteam Fusion. Some I started using recently like Tiled and Aseprite. Audacity and Reaper I’ve downloaded in the last week or so based on hearing about them here. The others I use regularly or daily.
I hate browsers and don’t have a preference. Internet Explorer I keep because I have one bill I pay online that only seems to work in Internet Explorer. Firefox is the least worst right now. Netscape Navigator 4 lyfe.
Oh! I like MagicaVoxel. I’ve messed with that a few times. I should put it on the taskbar to remind myself to use it more often. Another one I need to pin: MuseScore 3. It’s a simple music composition app.
that’s so much stuff in your taskbar!
Wow for lossless cut. Instant add to my taskbar
Reaper - Every time I use it I laugh about the old days
Vegas - Got a post Sony version and it is a little worse but still a pretty good video editor built on the bones of a DAW. Got it on Humble for almost nothing
Visual Studio 2019 - Got used to it
Godot - First programmatic that clicked for me
Notepad++ - Where I keep all my great ideas
Pyxel Edit - Good multi layered image editor focused on pixel images
GIMP - Used to it
OBS - I actually really like it but heard Facebook is getting involved
LaunchBox - I rarely emulate but it does a good job IMO
JoyToKey - Hurt my foot a few years back and had to keep it elevated. Used this to set up an xBox controller for web browsing and such. Opened it up to find I also set up profiles for Dominions 5, Divinity Original Sin 2, Into The Breach and Reaper among other things.
notepad++ is my favorite text editor because i accidentally lose text files in it all the time and find them years later, only to discover my brilliant lost works are “i must attain clown pussy” or the names of my icewind dale characters from 2006
All Electron means to me is “A browser app but without the sandbox” and to that I say “no thanks.”
it’s more “if you’re just making a simple UI for a tool that needs to run locally because it converts stuff on your filesystem or performs indexing or whatever, you may as well use js because Qt and .NET are dead”
Do any of y’all have a to-do app you like?
Microsoft To-Do grabs your Outlook/Exchange flagged emails and that alone makes it OK.
I use Apple reminders otherwise because I can talk to it.
Relatedly, Sticky Notes on Windows now sync across devices and appear in the mobile OneNote app.
I used org-mode for TODOs. TODO lists seem to be somehow fundamentally incompatible with my brain, much to my dismay, but orgmode does the job to the extent possible.
