Productivity Utilities & Online Services - updated 4 August 2021 Return to Index
Calibre E-book Management (Free Open Source). Link here
Dia (GPL License) - Alternative to Microsoft Visio for drawing structured diagrams. Download here
Data Wrapper (Free version online) - Publish Charts, Maps, and Tables - Link here
DocFetcher (Free Open Source) - Desktop Search Engine. Download here
Edraw Mind Map (Freeware Version) - Create flowcharts, network diagrams etc. Download here
ezPDF Reader Pro (Free version available) for highlighting and annotating PDF files on an Android tablet. Link here
Foxit PDF Reader (Free version) - Extract highlighting from PDF files - Download here
FreeFileSync (Free Open Source) - Backup and synchronise files, folders, and hard drives. Download here
HelpNDoc Documentation authoring software (Free personal edition) - Link here (Used to develop my web publication ISOSSR)
HelpScribble (Commercial) - Help Authoring Tool - Output includes online documentation on a web site - Link here
IBM Watson Speech to text Service - Link here
Kotobeee Interactive Ebook Authoring (Freemium version) - Link here
Lunapic (Free Online) Create transparent background to graphics - link here
LyX (Free Open Source) - Power and flexibility of TeX/LaTeX with the ease of use of a graphical interface. Download here
Mendeley Desktop (Free Reference Manager, PDF Organiser, and Academic Social Network. “Make your own fully-searchable library in seconds, cite as you write, and read and annotate your PDFs on any device”). Link here
PDF Copy-Paster (Free download) - a utilty which enables copy and paste word wrapping from a PDF file without hard returns. Link here
Qiqqa Research and Reference Manager (Free and Premium). Link here
Scapple (Commercial) Non-linear free form note creator and non-hierarchical connector. Link here
Scrivener (Commercial) Writing project management software. Link here
Search Everything (Free - Donate) - Search file names on hard drives. Download here
Sumnotes Online Service (Free for a limited number and size of files) for extracting highlighting from PDF files into a separate document. Link here
Winplot (Permission by author to freely distribute) - A general-purpose plotting utility which can draw (and animate) curves and surfaces presented in a variety of formats. Download here
Zotero Personal Research Assistant (Free browser plugin & Standalone version) - Link here
ZotFile PDF Notation Extraction Plugin for Zotero Personal Research Assistant (Donation) - Link here
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