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I've got my email registered there too, but I haven't committed to using it as my main address yet.

It's good to hear a positive experience from your end. Sadly they don't allow IMAP / SMTP access for free. :(

Software: Fluent Search

Need: Navigating Windows with a keyboard / a Windows Search that doesn't suck.

Fluent Search does a lot of things, but at its core it aims to make you reach for your mouse less. 

The most obvious competitor is the Windows Start Menu or other launcher-type apps like Listary, but I haven't used the Windows alternatives too much. I'll say that it's much more powerful than KRunner or ULauncher on Linux though.

Features:

• Search for lots of things on a quickly summoned search window:
  • Apps
  • Open windows / processes (will change focus / virtua

I'll add software for a similar need on Windows, i.e. touch enabled / pen enabled Windows Laptops:

Drawboard PDF is by far the prettiest AND most functional PDF reader to use with a touch pen I've tried.

It's a native Windows app designed to fit in with Fluent / Windows Store apps.

Compared to Xodo, it's much more polished and provides easy radial menus for quick access to tools using touch, however it takes a bit longer to start up initially. (However, once it's loaded, opening more PDFs is quick)

It's less powerful at editing than editing-focused PDF suites ... (read more)

Thanks for pointing me to it, if I make the jump in the future, that might come in handy. Although it does slightly take away from the appeal of pure markdown files.

+1 for doom emacs. I'm an emacs novice and doom makes it palatable to learn - not easy, but it more clearly showcases the power of emacs.

Great rundown of Edge! Used the one's you've listed as well and stuck with Edge for a while, too.

Now I'm with Vivaldi, and I'll nominate it for a slightly different category:
The Emacs of web browsing - it has everything, but it could be better at quickly loading web pages.

Software: Vivaldi

Need: customizable web browser for keyboard-centric power-users 

First cons, why I would generally still recommend Edge:

• Vivaldi is more resource heavy
• Vivaldi is slower than browsers like Edge or Chrome
• Vivaldi requires a more personalized setup

Now, what makes it best f... (read more)

I'm currently using Notion and agree on the "slow" part. 

However, what Notion does give you, which other, mostly markdown / flat-file based systems do not, is a form of "data-base", or more truthfully spreadsheet-like applications with light formulas, sorting, filtering etc. Also, the free version also includes sharing / "publication" and sync.

I do not use it heavily, but those are the reasons I'm sticking with it for now.

I feel like you might enjoy Typora? Well, at least if you like markdown.

Edit to elaborate what it does:

A hybrid markdown editor (type markdown, see it rendered inline) with beautiful theming, great support for local workflows with images, zen-like typing mode and good support for the additions often found alongside markdown (syntax-highlighting, extended tables etc.)

Edit #2: see also this comment, I think they did a better job than my comment.

Hello there, just saw this. I'm Hans, a 22-year-old Software Engineer. I've been reading cursory here for a while, but to be perfectly honest, I have no clue how I stumbled upon it. This page is bookmarked since January, a time at which I was working on my Bachelor's Thesis, so I reckon I found it after taking one to many (or perhaps the exact right amount of) tangents while researching. Another hypothesis has just formed in my mind since gwern wrote about the Libera channel lower, and I faintly remember stumbling upon Libera at the same time. (Not as a ta... (read more)