Four most valuable programs for Me
In this article I'll be not talking about a terminal emulator or a browser, it's just not much to do with a computer nowadays without them. Instead, I'd like to cover the following topics:
- PDF annotation
- Typing trainers
- PDF editing
Xournal is a program I use not so often to fill in some PDF forms. They are not designed as PDF forms, they are just PDFs to fill in some information and put a signature. My process without a special program would be the following:
- Find a place to print a document (as I don't have a printer or MFD at home)
- Fill in and sign the document
- Scan a document somewhere (because smartphone photos are not good enough)
That's a loss of paper, time, and money. With Xournal and similar software, you can fill everything in the PDF and send it right away. I can't say whether there's an alternative for this program in Linux, it just works great. You can also create a signature in another program and insert it whenever you need it. In Europe, it works for most of the cases. By the way, I use xournal++ which is a fork of the original xournal.
Next, there are two programs I try to use daily, and using them is the simplest way to increase productivity. I'm talking about the typing trainers, I just search for them using the package manager in my distribution, so my findings are:
- gtypist, it works in terminal
- klavaro, a GUI app
I think that any app will do, you just need to install it and practice regularly.
And a bonus: if you need to edit PDF, LibreOffice Draw can do that!
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