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00:00 Introduction
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01:35 Replace obsidian
03:49 Replace the notion
06:40 Replace Teams and Slack
07:51 Replace Trello
09:24 Replace Acrobat Pro
10:33 Replace Visual Studio code
11:47 Other alternatives
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Obsidian offers the ability to link notes together, it uses markdown and plain text to store your notes, it has an ecosystem of plugins and the visual knowledge graph that allows you to explore topics and relationships between your grades. BUT it's proprietary, so we have Logseq. It takes notes as markdown files, it has 150+ plugins and a bunch of themes, it has mobile apps, it's private, and it has the same linking features and knowledge graph.

It even lets you create queries to generate tables with all the information you need, based on the links and data you enter in your notes. Logseq even offers its own synchronization solution if you want it. It is available for Linux, as AppImage and for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android.

Notion is another very powerful app. Although it is free, it is also proprietary and does not have an official Linux version.

The closest thing you'll find in the open source world will be AppFlowy, and while it's really close, it's not a full feature yet. You can create your own structure, with pages and subpages, and have a few types of pages, such as calendars, tables, tables or documents. You can also mix these types on the same page, like having a board with cards, which you can also present in a board or on a calendar, but you won't get as many templates as what Notion offers.

If you want a more complete application, there is AnyType instead. It's also open source and has a Linux client and mobile apps, but the interface is a bit more complex and less clear initially than AppFLowy.

Now on this one you may not have as much control, usually a company or project will impose Slack or Microsoft Teams on you. But if you have all the power, you might want to take a look at Mattermost.

It is a completely open source Slack/MS Teams alternative, which you can self-host. It allows you to create channels and chat with secondary threads, file sharing, screen sharing and audio calls. It can be integrated with many developer tools to automate things, you can format messages with markdowns or snippets, and all messages can be archived, with a full history search.

If all you need to get organized is a board, you can use Trello. This one is quite simple to replace: you can just use Focalboard. You can either host it yourself if you want to allow multiple people to access the same board, or just use it as a personal app, with a macOS, Windows, and Linux app.

If you need to create and edit PDF documents, you can use Adobe Acrobat Pro. You can still open them in GIMP, Inkscape, or LibreOffice Draw, but these tend to either open a single page or break the document formatting. Libreoffice draw does a great job IF all the fonts used in the PDF are installed on your system, but text editing is usually handled line by line, instead of recognizing elements as paragraphs, which can be difficult to manage .

The code in Visual Studio Code is under the MIT license, so it is an open source/free software project, but the binary you can get from Microsoft is not open source. The alternative is therefore simple: VSCodium. It's built on the open source parts of VS Code, but removes all tracking, telemetry, and proprietary components. It is compatible with VS Code plugins and extensions and has the exact same interface and features, but in a beautiful open source form.

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