For me it’s: Testdisk (and Photorec) Caddy Netstat Dig Aria2
For me it’s the other way around I wish there would be better CLI support for GUI apps.
This, but for a Fireshot like tool. Screenshot and pdf of webpages in their entirety by scrolling while shotting. In bulk, with CLI.
It’s also the use cases supported by Linkwarden:
Dont know if it’s illegitimate otherwise 😉
But my user story is like this:
I want to preserve and archive information I used because it’s a reflection of the things I did, learned and studied throughout life.
Then my use case are:
- Orientation about “events”: places to visit on daytrips or holidays (musea, nature, parks, campsites) and looking for practical information and background as well.
- Gather a “dossier”: info to help make a decision (buying expensive things, how to do home improvement etc)
- Building a personal knowledge database: interesting articles and blogs.
My current workflow:
- Browse
- Bookmark extensively
- Download pdf or other content (maps, routes, images) when provided.
- Open bookmarks.
- Fireshot every webpage to pdf and png
- Save everything with a consequent filename (YYYYMMDD - Source - Title)
I would like to automate the last 3 steps of my workflow.
It’s been years since I had to admin Windows servers, but I was quite impressed with the number of MS products where the install and configuration tools would output the Powershell commands to carry out the changes you’d asked for. It made it quite a lot easier to automate. I’d love to see that paradigm catch on more widely, with the GUI and CLI having the same functionality and the GUI giving you the commands to run.
I love programs like freecad despite the really hard/unintuitive gui. 95% of all the modelling i need to do (as an amateur) can be done easily in a python script.
The finishing touches like adding filets and chamfers are the annoying part were gui is easier, due to the way edges are referenced.
Likewise at work, we have to produce a lot of regular reports in excel. All done via python / sql.
pavucontrol. I switch between usb headset and my external speakers all the time. Continually going to this gui is kind of annoying.
I use a little oneliner with tofi (rofi/wofi would also work) to select the current output and avoid pavucontrol. It’s mapped to a sway binding but would probably work in any wm/de:
pactl set-default-sink $(pactl list short sinks |awk '{print $2}' |tofi $tofi_args)
I’m using pipewire so the functionality of pactl is actually provided through pipewire-pulse I think
- Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
- Excel to change stuff in excel files quickly (I know about python modules but it’s so complicated to use)
- Proprietary VPN software like Cisco AnyConnect, I want to automate the login when I boot, but they don’t let me
Just from the top of my head.
- Gimp to batch edit pictures in a script (I know about ImageMagick but still)
It seems to exist: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/
For Excel there is a PowerShell module called Import-Excel that I use all the time.
