Notepad++: a quick notepad for all your quick editing needs.See the link in winget section above for replacements. Probably the only free and trustworthy DNS+VPN service in the world. Some highlights: Alt+Space runner, file renamer, always on top, fancy zones, keyboard remapper, and color picker. With more features, libraries, and presets coming to the mix, I find Figma replacing Adobe suite for some of my workflows. Built on WASM C++, it offers native app like performance on a browser. Figmaįigma came out of nowhere and blew away the stranglehold of Adobe on the graphic design market. Over the years MS has really upped its game with the default utility apps. You have to host it yourself if you're running the free version but that's as simple as setting it up in your cloud folder. Obsidianīest note-taking and journal app. Very active development with actually useful features coming every week. If you're cool with MS using your data, I think functionality and performance wise Edge is currently the best browser. Honorable mention: MS Todo is also great if you're deep into MS ecosystem, especially Outlook flagged emails appear in todo list and it is so helpful. About the AuthorsĮd Bott is an award-winning journalist known to millions of readers through two decades of writing for leading industry publications and more than 25 books on Microsoft Office and Windows, including Windows 7 Inside Out and Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition.If you use winget, check out my FOSS utility yuki, an interactive list to install my recommendations easily.

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