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Try the offline model first Trending toolProduct Hunt No. 13, 96 votes

Dictate into any app on Windows, Mac, or Linux with SpeakoFlow, a free tool that keeps your voice on your machine

Voice typing that never leaves the computer, for the price of a download.

SpeakoFlow is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app that types what you say into any application, and its own page puts the pace above 150 words a minute. Transcription runs on a built-in offline model, so the audio stays on the machine and no account is required; the optional cleanup, translation, and assistant features can use your own API keys instead. Downloads are posted as .exe and .msi for Windows, a .dmg for Apple Silicon Macs, and an AppImage or .deb for Linux. Mac owners have one extra step on first run, a terminal command that clears the quarantine flag.

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The tool shelf new tonight

Pandoc

Free, GPL licensedWindows, macOS, LinuxHacker News, 388 points

Turns one document into another from a single command, and John MacFarlane's twentieth anniversary post counts 51 input formats and 76 output formats, so a Markdown draft can leave as a Word file, an EPUB, or a slide deck; the honest catch is that PDF output still leans on a LaTeX engine you install separately, MiKTeX on Windows, BasicTeX or TinyTeX on macOS, TeX Live on Linux.

space ocr

Free tier, then paid plansWeb app, plus an APIProduct Hunt No. 12, 98 votes

Reads photographed receipts, statements, and forms into a table where every value shows where on the page it came from, and marks the readings it is unsure of as needs_review instead of guessing quietly, with the limits stated plainly on its pricing page: the free tier is 100 pages a month across three sheets, and exporting a CSV spends one of those pages.

Every shelf item is available today; no waitlists, no vaporware.

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The workflows follow along at home

Retire the Adobe subscription with four free apps for photos, video, design, and PDFs

An evening to switchDarktable, free on Win, Mac, LinuxMakeUseOf Trending Now

Four free swaps Abhijith N Arjunan replaces Lightroom with Darktable, Premiere Pro with DaVinci Resolve, Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign with the Affinity suite behind a free Canva account, and Acrobat with PDFgear, while granting that Darktable has a steep learning curve and PDFgear's OCR accuracy may not match Adobe's.

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Swap the all-purpose chatbot for four AI tools each built to do one job

30 minutes to tryGemini Notebook, free tierHow-To Geek Popular News

Sources, not memory Sydney Butler starts with Gemini Notebook, which works from the PDFs, web pages, documents, and videos you hand it and can read them back as a podcast-style audio overview, then adds Perplexity for cited search, Midjourney for images, and ElevenLabs for voice, and he warns that the notebook still hallucinates occasionally.

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Give the old Android tablet in the drawer a job again with five free apps

About an hourAn old Android tablet, 8.0 or newerHow-To Geek Popular News

Five lightweight apps Goran Damnjanovic turns a slow tablet into a reader with Librera, a stylus notepad with Squid, a video player with NOVA, a Pomodoro timer with Goodtime, and an RSS reader with FeedMe, all free and running on hardware as old as Android 8.0, though he sends you to F-Droid for Librera's fully open-source build and to VLC on truly ancient devices.

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Mary of Nazareth

Keep and Ponder

The useful work is finished. Keep what is true, ponder what matters, and entrust the rest to God.

Keep

Be still, and know that I am God.

Psalm 46:10, KJV

Ponder

Let one unanswered question be quiet for tonight.

Entrust

God, quiet the noise in me and keep watch while I am still. Amen.

A practice shaped by Luke 2:19Guided by the biblical witness of Mary of Nazareth.

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