Part 3 Software on the Pi Starting with Web Apps
I think the first way to be OS agnostic is to have your workflowys go through the internet. This means you can with your browser of choice do most of your work anywhere using anything including a 4 GB Pi that we are using. This is the plus. The minus is privicy, your data is part of a bigger honeypot, and subscribtion fees. But if you resign yourself to paying for your online workflowy there are alot of work arounds to those concerns. Remember if your not paying, you are the product.
Software
I choose 10 apps to go over. Here they are. Update: I started this blog in November, Since then my sister caught covid, which my father and I avoided. Then two weeks later after my sister got better, I caught covid. Immediately after my mother entered end of life (not covid) care and was dead with in 3 days on the weekend before christmas. I was thrown for a loop to say the least. Since then I have decided to publish this article as is and start smaller posts on web software because a blog topic of All the software that can help you on the web is just to big. I was going to pair down to top ten lists in post and that might be to big or it might not. My goal is to do at least a weekly post. So enjoy and if there is some link distruction and not 10 indepth reviews of software a week working or not on a raspberry pi well, you know why. I refuse to edit in the interest of time and getting something out semiregularly. At least untill I have some subscriber support possible. Enjoy what I have.
Workflowy
WorkFlowy
Workflowy is a hierarchical listing app. You can create bulletpoints with notes and nest list infinitely. You can collaspe or expand anylist or make any list the primary view by clicking on it. With a little imagniation you can do amazing things with this app. It takes some setup. It’s creater turned it over to another guy who with a couple of browser extentions turned this into a very Mac like expirence. He wrote a book on how to use this. To be honest I bought this book and havent taking the time to read it before I lost the book. Opps. But there are plenty of Youtube tutorials on this.
Fractal Boards in workflowy are a great way to visualise any 2 or 3 lists or even further nested boards on mobile. Up to 6 lists on my moniter were visable. Workflowy Post Fractal Boards and the So Trello like functionality, maybe getting a Kaban Board going.
Bullets are the standard list view. I like to have a hashtag list of all my hashtags I create. I call it my Tag Index and have it right up top before any other lists.
Collaboration is just creating a share link for a list. The Menu on the desktop webpage is three horzonatal dots that you can hover over. The dots are placed to the right of the list “node” that you are working on. You can of course tag someone like this: @John . Topical #Hashtags are allowed and both can be searched in the search bar up top.
Here are some links to youtube videos that can show the power of this system above and beyond the offical Workflowy youtube video.
Workflowy lists can be exported. To my knowledge anything you want to export must be seen. So expand all your notes. I exported the list I made for workflowy notes in this articles in a text file so you can look at the 3 export formats. The three formats are Formated, Plain Text and OPML. Formated pastes like your list with spaces as indents. Plain Text uses dashes for the nodes much like markdown notation for lists. OPML I don’t remember anything but looking it up once. Let me google that for you. LMDDGTFY
Let me invite you to workflowy. Referral Link There is a premium system that amoung other things lets you get more lists per month. If this blog takes off, I will need the free lists to outline more great programs. The free level has provided me with a usable app for years with one or two invites. As finances improve workflowy is on my to support list. I bought the book as part of my support for them.
Evernote
Evernote
Evernote was my first notetaking software. Evernote was described to me as your brain. The more you put into it the more valuable it is. This discribes any notes system but it is true. 
Why I got out of it was I was afraid of lock in. Not so much a problem now with export tools but was a big concern for me. Lots of flack about the new app. If you are on linux try out Tusk, an evernote desktop app. I can’t remember if it was available at snap or flathub.
Free tier gives you 2 devices, search and tags, “rich” formating, clip webpages (via extension), 25MB limit notesize, and 60MB monthly upload. Premium will give you real space, PDF annotater, search in documents and OCR, control over templates. Evernote example
Onenote
Microsoft Onenote is my king of rich (ie pictures) note taking apps. Yes the web version works on Linux. Office Lens is a great app that I use for scanning documents with my phone to Onenote. I think it works great but that is because I have a high quality pixel and later pixel 3 phone with good camera’s, your millage may very if your smartphone is a straight talk or such with 8 megs storage and a 5 or 8 MP camera.
This brings me to a tangent. A solid phone can be had for 2 to 3 hundred on ebay for any carrier including prepaid carriers. Why people pay 800 to 1000 for the latest model or under 100 for prepaid quality doesn’t compute. Yea a $100 LG model whatever with verizon network phone would get my calls and texts done, I like exploring apps and takeing good pictures and that takes, internal Gigs, and a good camera, and google’s picture software, because their infernal AI is really good.
Back to OneNote online, it is free, and has so many features that you need a class to sort it out. Check out youtube. The desktop app I havn’t been able to get running on linux. Wine on the raspberry pi might be possible on TwisterOS but I doubt it.
So the Online version is the most relistic option. You have to be a preimuim office360 member to set expiring and passworded sharable links to a notebook. If you share anything it is kind of a must have to be secure in this world.
Use google drive to its potential. Set your default search to Duckduckgo or Startpage. Those searches will do it for you most of the time. You can always hand type in google.com in incogneto tab if you want. In duckduckgo you can type in “!asm chromebooks” and it will take you to amazon smile and search chromebooks for you. There are a bunch of !bangs as they are called for duckduckgo. Check it out.
Photos and snapseed
Snapseed is an app by google for editing photos. Look it up for android or IOS. Googles AI is good. Snapseed for PC is depriciated. That’s google for you. Learning there software is a risk, but they hit homeruns reasonably often. Here is a link to the apk. Android Police refered me to APKMirror.com to download the google apps for my kindle playstore so I use them when I want to download apk. If you want to use the playstore it is there also.
If your using google photos and createing a website. Here is one that will allow photos to stick around longer by generating a permante link to your drive. It works like this, you give it a share link, it generates a direct link from it and deletes the link on it’s server side. It won’t work for albums. Labnol.org. I am using it for this blog.
Drive and Office
www.office.com is free if you have a microsoft account. IE email microsoft computer log in. Office has a paid version with more stuff. Google drive is a storage service with built in writer, sheet, presentation software. I have used Zoho software once upon a time. LibreOffice is a free office software that the linux world uses. It is free and has all the functions. It’s interface is pre ribion microsoft. You can change that but it takes research and LibreOffice (formerly OpenOffice) won’t do it for you with one click settings because lawsuits. You have to go into advanced settings and authorise it. then you have to choose the tabbed interface from settings. And if you want microsoft’s icons you have to download the art from deviantart, and install it to the right folder.
Dropbox
Dropbox will integrate with linux and your are using a raspberry pi. Yeah! It stores and can share your smaller files in exchange for money.
Jitsi the un-Zoom
WebRTC compatable Jitsi Meet is a free video zoom. You set up a docker image on a server, and others connect to you with a client. Or you hire someone else to serveer this. I might need to buy a Raspberry Pi 4 with docker to try this later. Or set up a digital Ocean VPS for internet accessable confrence. Instructions here. These instructions are not mine, were the first google link I found and I make no guarantees as to timelyness. You can use an advanced search setting to see articles made in the last year.
Squoosh
This app compresses photos. Squoosh I seem to slow down my raspberry pi 4. I have Chrome open with 3 tabs and firefox open with 4 tabs. I have the 4 GB model pi. close tabs if your going to use this. Or have more ram.
Gravit
A vector graphic web app. Gravit I didn’t try this because I am not going to spend money on this. I am also on a time crunch so I am not going to trial it and cancel later. I also don’t do anything with vector graphics. This is here because I was looking for tools. And it was in the brainstorming for this article but It obviously didn’t make my time bugdet for a deep dive. But it was here so here it stays.
Look out for more apps soon. Bye.