100+ Tools That Just Work
Mount your pod. Use your tools. No plugins required.
The filesystem is the universal API.
Tier S — Game Changers
The tools that make mounted pods transformative.
Git 100
Version control your entire life
Obsidian 99
Second brain in your pod
Logseq 99
Outliner/journal, local-first
VS Code 98
Edit anything, Remote-SSH built in
rsync 98
Sync anything, delta transfers
Syncthing 97
P2P sync to all devices
rclone 97
Mount, sync, serve anywhere
Vim/Neovim 96
Edit at the speed of thought
pass 96
Passwords, GPG encrypted, Git synced
Borg Backup 95
Deduplicated, encrypted backups
Tier A — Essential
Power tools for serious work.
Emacs/Org-mode 94
Life in plain text
Pandoc 94
Convert anything to anything
Hugo 93
Blog from your pod
Calibre 93
Ebook library management
ffmpeg 93
Process all your media
ImageMagick 92
Batch image processing
Restic 92
Modern encrypted backups
Zotero 92
Research library
Joplin 91
Notes with sync
Taskwarrior 91
CLI task management
Tier B — Power Tools
Creative and media tools.
Darktable 89
RAW photo editing
GIMP 89
Image editing
Inkscape 88
Vector graphics
LibreOffice 88
Full office suite
Kodi 88
Media center
Jellyfin 88
Self-hosted streaming
mpv 87
Best video player
VLC 87
Plays anything
digiKam 87
Photo management
Kdenlive 86
Video editing
Tier C — CLI Essentials
Command line power.
ranger 84
TUI file manager
nnn 84
Blazing fast file manager
fd 83
Modern find
ripgrep 83
Fastest grep
fzf 83
Fuzzy finder
bat 82
Better cat
SQLite 82
Database in a file
DuckDB 82
Analytics on files
jq 81
JSON processing
Cryptomator 81
Encrypt folders
Tier D — Specialized
Domain-specific tools.
tar/zip 79
Archive everything
GPG/age 78
Encryption
Zettlr 78
Academic markdown
Plex 74
Media streaming
Photoprism 74
AI photo management
Paperless-ngx 74
Document management
LaTeX 72
Academic typesetting
ledger/hledger 69
Plaintext accounting
chezmoi 68
Dotfile management
Jupyter 62
Notebooks in your pod
"You don't need new tools. Your tools already work."
Mount your pod. Everything else follows.
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