Language/Multiple-languages/Culture/Productivity-tools-for-polyglots

Free resources for productivity around languages and cultures

Hi Polyglots 😃

On this page we have gathered our best resources to improve your productivity in the world of languages and cultures.

As the world becomes increasingly global, the demand for individuals who are proficient in multiple languages continues to rise. Polyglots, or multilingual individuals, can often find themselves juggling multiple projects, deadlines, and languages, making it a challenge to stay organized and productive. In this article, we explore some of the best productivity tools available for polyglots to help them streamline their workflow and manage their language projects with ease.

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Legal knowledge

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

Know about how copyrighted material can be used for what purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_copyright_license

Know about public license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain

Know about public domain.

Resource

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Free_media_resources

Free licensed media resources.

Communication

https://www.beebeep.net/

Chat in local network. It is open-source.

Course Creation

https://github.com/LibreLingo/LibreLingo

Tool for creating language courses. It is open-source.

Writing

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

Text editor with real-time preview support. It is open-source.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

Office suite. It is open-source.

https://wekan.github.io/

Collaborative kanban. It is open-source.

https://wbo.ophir.dev/

Collaborative whiteboard. It is open-source.

https://www.bookstackapp.com/

Multi-user information management. It is open-source.

https://sigil-ebook.com/

For writing e-books. It is open-source.

https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger

For editing PDF on Linux and Windows. It is open-source.

https://tabula.technology/

For extracting tables from PDF. Java is required. It is open-source.

Painting & Graphics

https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/

Champion of raster graphic formats. Details at Netflix Technology Blog and Jake Archibald. It is open-source.

https://krita.org/

For drawing. It is open-source.

https://www.gimp.org/

For image manipulation. It is open-source.

https://inkscape.org/

For editing vector graphics. It is open-source.

https://www.flaticon.com/

High-quality icons. Good for visual memorisation of vocabulary for nouns and verbs.

https://opengameart.org/

Art repository for games.

https://mapchart.net/

Easily create customized maps.

https://fontforge.github.io/

Font creation. Not an easy work. It is open-source.

https://yoga.flozz.org/

Image optimiser. It is open-source.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Comparison_of_editors

Editors of OpenStreetMap. Most of them are open-source.

3D Modeling

https://www.bforartists.de/

Fork of Blender with friendly UI. It is open-source.

https://goxel.xyz/

Voxel editor. It is open-source.

https://www.meshlab.net/

Mesh improvement. It is open-source.

Audio

https://musescore.org/

For composing music. It is open-source.

Video

https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/

For video editing. It is open-source.

https://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit

Subtitle edit. It is open-source.

https://github.com/juliango202/jijimaku

Add dictionary definitions to subtitles. It is open-source.

https://lettier.github.io/gifcurry/

For converting videos into GIFs. It is open-source.

Programming & Developing

https://vscodium.com/

Development environment. It is open-source.

https://git-cola.github.io/

GUI for git. It is open-source.

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

It is for training skills mainly related to websites. It is open-source.

https://exercism.io/

It is for practising languages. It is open-source.

The positions of language in “Available language tracks” are random, seems to be showing the equality of languages.

Unfortunately, there is no G-code.

https://cython.org/

Write in Python and compile as C. It is open-source.

https://neutralino.js.org/

Develop programs with HTML, CSS & JavaScript. It is open-source.

There are some comparisons on its GitHub page, which shows that its focus is being lightweight.

https://beeware.org/

GUI creation for for Python with native tools. It is open-source.

https://www.ultimatepp.org/

Rapid development framework for C++. It is open-source.

https://godotengine.org/

Game engine with a custom language. It is open source.

https://bevyengine.org/

Game engine in Rust. It is open-source.

https://gdevelop-app.com/

Develop games without programming. It is open-source.

https://models.aminer.cn/codegeex/

Translator for programming languages. It is open-source.

Information

https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gucharmap

Character map of Unicode. For Linux and Mac. It is pre-installed in many Linux distributions. It is open-source.

https://alternativeto.net/

Find alternatives.

There are also criticism on it.

https://www.similarweb.com/

Find similar sites.

https://www.producthunt.com/

Find amazing products.

https://www.slant.co/

Compare two products.

Localisation

https://opensource.com/article/17/6/open-source-localization-tools

Tools for localization. They are open-source.

Conversion

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/

Image converter. It is open-source.

https://www.freac.org/

Audio converter. It is open-source.

https://handbrake.fr/

Video converter. It is open-source.

File Management

http://file-folder-ren.sourceforge.net/

For batch rename. It is open-source.

https://meldmerge.org/

It compares two different files or directories. It is open-source.

https://github.com/qarmin/czkawka

Duplicate file finder. It is open-source.

File Sharing & Synchronisation

https://localsend.org/

Share files through local network. It is open-source.

https://schollz.com/blog/croc/

Share files through local network in command line. It is open-source.

Server

https://nginx.org/

Web server. It is open-source.

https://github.com/drakkan/sftpgo

SFTP server for Android. It is open-source.

Desktop-sharing

https://www.tightvnc.com/

For controlling a desktop on another computer. It is open-source.

Bootable USB creation

https://www.ventoy.net/

Creator of bootable USB. It can have multiple images on one USB. It is open-source.

Organization

https://www.focalboard.com/

Task management for team. It is open-source.

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