So many small things, combine to make my and my family' daily life easier. As for lesser known, I'd say Tandoor. A web based UI for your recipes. I cook the most for our family, but old school like; add this and this, and enough of this until it tastes good. My wife needs more instruction. So with this, if I cook something she wants to eat again; she tells me. I then write down that recipe on Tandoor so it can be reproduced. I also got started with this software back when it was called just 'recipes'.

Quality software, great usage. Lesser known.

Secure file sending: croc
Dedjplication: Czkawka
Sorting tool: Phockup
OCR: OCRmyPDF

SC-Controller, although it seems to have been abandoned.

Gpodder-adaptive

Grisbi, for finances.

Space sniffer http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

It was on life hack.com a decade ago. Literally haven’t seen a single app beat this one.

Hammerspoon. Pretty necessary Mac software to make it work the way you want.

Daily

• flameshot for screenshot with annotations
• quodlibet for playing music (nice GUI, scriptable with python - wrote a few myself)

Occasionally

• czkawa for deduplication
• manuskript for writing
• tuxguitar for guitar tabs

Dunno how known they are, but it took me a while to find them.

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

ChimeraOS. If you have a non-steam gamerdeck, I recommend backing up the Windows 11 install and replacing it with this outright. It's based on the Steam Deck OS and makes the process of selecting a game much faster because Windows 11 is bloated as shit.

I live and die by Simplenote. It's one of the apps I'm in multiple times per day every day of my life.

Space sniffer. Best and most underrated program to help clear your computer storage from random shit

I used to use [a Windows 3.1 shrink-wrapped software package] that offered notepads and appointment calendars. Then I switched to Linux. That was 16 years ago. To take the place of the Windows application, I had to write my own list-maker from scratch. Today, there's a new python3-pyqt5 version (under GNU General Public License) of my script for Linux and Windows desktops to help maintain the equivalent of index-card files. Obviously this is not something you'd use just to be like everybody else. I use it because I don't really know how others handle their everyday lists and I can't think of an easier way. If you, too, suspect it ought to be easier than it is, it may be. Please look at Tonto2. Thanks.

I'm looking for an alterntive to this for windows. If anyone knows people lemme know.