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VimWiki

May 30, 2026 by InvisibleJim
VimWiki

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License: MIT License


Description:

VimWiki is a personal wiki plugin for Vim that stores linked text files with its own syntax highlighting, enabling note-taking, to-do lists, and HTML export.

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Mercury

May 30, 2026 by InvisibleJim
Mercury

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License: MPL-2.0 (Mozilla Public License 2.0)


Description:

Mercury is a Firefox-based browser fork featuring compiler optimizations and patches from Librewolf, Waterfox, and GNU IceCat, aimed at privacy, speed, and customization.

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espanso-gui

May 16, 2026 by InvisibleJim
espanso-gui

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License: GPL-3.0


Description:

espansoGUI is a cross-platform GUI frontend for espanso, the open-source text expander. Built with Rust and iced, it provides a graphical interface to manage espanso snippets and settings, with binary releases and build instructions.

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Espanso

May 16, 2026 by InvisibleJim


Espanso – A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander

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License: GPL-3


Description:

A Privacy-first, Cross-platform Text Expander

Open-source cross-platform text expander that replaces typed shortcuts with snippets to boost productivity.

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compress

May 16, 2026 by InvisibleJim


compress

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Description:

A Python tool that learns common phrases from a text corpus and outputs keyboard shortcut configurations for Autokey to compress typing, enabling easier automation of frequent phrases.

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snipt

May 16, 2026 by InvisibleJim
snipt

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License: MIT


Description:

Snipt is a cross-platform text snippet expansion tool written in Rust. It provides a daemon, CLI, and TUI to expand short prefixes into longer text across apps, with script execution, parameterized snippets, and clipboard support.

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AB Download Manager

May 9, 2026 by InvisibleJim
AB Download Manager

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License: Apache-2.0


Description:

AB Download Manager is a free, open-source tool to download files faster with multi-connection downloads, queue management, a scheduler, and speed limiting. It offers browser extension integration and cross-platform support (Android, Windows, Linux, macOS).

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OSINT-War-Room

May 1, 2026 by InvisibleJim
OSINT-War-Room

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License: MIT


Description:

A high-performance OSINT dashboard that aggregates real-time conflict feeds, air/sea tracking, news, cyber intel, and market data into a configurable web interface for monitoring global geopolitical events.

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Telegram Drive

May 1, 2026 by InvisibleJim


Telegram Drive

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License: MIT License


Description:

Telegram Drive is an open-source cross-platform desktop app built with Tauri, Rust, and React that turns your Telegram account into unlimited cloud storage by using Saved Messages and Channels as folders.

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Speed of Sound

April 27, 2026 by InvisibleJim
Speed of Sound

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Source Code

License: MIT


Description:

Voice typing for the Linux desktop. On-device transcription powered by Whisper, Parakeet, Canary, and more; offline by default, with multilingual support and system-wide typing into focused apps via XDG Portals. Optional LLM polishing and support for self-hosted backends.

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