Suggested Tools
This page contains a list of tools which I have found useful. Unless stated otherwise, each of these is Open Source and will run on Linux, Windows and iOS platforms
| Name | Notes | |
| Audio Editor | Audacity | |
| BiBTeX Editor | JabRef | |
| Calendar | Lightning | Addon to Thunderbird |
| Database | MariaDB | Replacement for MySQL; also consider PostgreSQL |
| Desktop Publishing | Scribus | |
| Graph Drawing | GnuPlot | |
| Mail Client | Thunderbird | Use IMAP |
| Mind Mapping | FreeMind | |
| Network Visualisation | Gephi | Exploratory analysis tool |
| OCR | Tesseract | |
| Office Suite | LibreOffice | Wordprocessor, spreadsheet, slides, database |
| Statistical Package | R | |
| Text Editor | Vim | Also Gvim, as a variant with a GUI |
| Vector Graphics | Inkscape | Also consider Krita |
| Version Control System | Git | |
| Virtualizer | VirtualBox | Hypervisor; may not support Apple guests |
| Web Browser | Firefox |