awesome-plaintext
github.com/avidseeker/awesome-plaintext ↗Plain text tools, resources, and integrations
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Encrypted Storage
- Adobe Version Cue
Blog post explaining version control to designers
- blackbox
use decryption keys per user, meaning that there is no single shared password
- Blog post
- git-crypt
git-crypt enables transparent encryption and decryption of files in a git repository
- HN Thread
- kactus.io
Version control for designers (Sketch+Git for now)
Passwords
- ansible-vault
Encrypted storage for ansible.
- blog post
- pass
Standard unix password manager (encrypt, then commit).
- Question
- sops
Encrypts files for git.
Resources
- Arch Wiki Guide
- AsciiDoc
- Bib.TXT
free bibliographies in text (unicode) format - BibTeX for the 21st century - books, articles, & more
- Blog post about Oxidised
- calcurse.apts
plain text calendar
- clouddns
ASCII
- Awesome CSV
- blog post
- bup
Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images)
- CriticMarkup
a way for authors and editors to track changes to documents in plain text.
- Draft
Easy version control and collaboration for writers.
- flyway
Version control for your database.
Finance
- beancount
A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.
- hledger
cross-platform accounting software for both power users and folks new to accounting.
- ics syncing
- Ledger
double-entry bookkeeping / accounting in (plain) text; follow your money
- Mundi Mark
all about markup & markdown
- plainbudget
Minimalist plaintext budgeting tool.
Diagrams & Flowcharts
- ditaa
converts diagrams drawn using ascii art, into proper bitmap graphics.
- erd
takes a plain text description of entities, their attributes and the relationships between entities and produces a visual diagram modeling the description using GraphViz and Dot.
- Kanga Modelling
UML diagram generator in plain text. Written in .NET
- Kroki
Kroki provides a unified API for all the diagram libraries including BlockDiag (BlockDiag, SeqDiag, ActDiag, NwDiag, PacketDiag, RackDiag), BPMN, Bytefield, C4 (with PlantUML), Ditaa, Erd, Excalidraw, GraphViz, Mermaid, Nomnoml, Pikchr, PlantUML, SvgBob, UMLet, Vega, Vega-Lite, WaveDrom... and more.
- Mermaid
Mermaid lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code.
- Svgbob Editor
Convert your ascii diagram scribbles into happy little SVG
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