KDE at Work - Apps I use to get stuff done

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I showed you how I use KDE, and Activities to switch between personal stuff an Work, and my preferred layout, now it's time to take a look at the applications I use to get stuff done!

00:00 Intro 01:30 Email and Calendar 03:18 Web Browsers 05:06 Graphics Design 06:02 Todo List 07:02 Office Suite 08:11 Screen Recording 08:37 File Manager 09:18 Desktop-Specific apps 10:29 Laptop-Specific apps 11:52 Parting Thoughts

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Common apps

Let's start with the apps I use on both my laptop, and my desktop:

Email / Calendar

First are the email and calendar apps. I use Kmail, and KOrganizer for this. These are the default on KDE, and you can tell that they have older roots, they don't really look or feel super modern, so I tweaked their layout a bit to make them fit my workflow better.

I use the versions supplied in the official manjaro repos or by KDE Neon on the laptop.

Web Browser

Of course, I also use a web browser, and my preferred one is Firefox.

I also use Chromium, because I need to test our website and webapp in the most used rendering engine, and GNOME Web, when I need to check if something breaks on Safari Desktop.

Graphics

I sometimes need to quickly mockup something, to propose changes or evolutions to our webapp, and for this, I use GIMP. I never used Photoshop in my life, so for me, it's super natural to use, it's relatively fast and simple, and the workflow of starting with a selection and then using it to draw, move, add, or remove stuff is pretty well ingrained in my brain.

Planner

To manage my tasks and reminders, I use Planner. Planner is, IMO, THE best todo list app on Linux. It has so many nice features, and it stays super simple and easy to understand. You can sync it with a todoist account as well, but not with Nextcloud for now, which is too bad.

Office suite

There is LibreOffice, which I really like, especially with the tabbed bar user interface. it's fast, it works really well, its compatibility has real ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syS3EQcSK3E