science-apps

Apps for getting things done in science.

This is an opinionated list of apps I use(d) in my daily science work to get things done. Science is a very diverse field and it is not easy to get and keep an overview of tools that simplify certain tasks. It is worth mentioning that this list is biased towards a terminal based UNIX workflow using R. Have fun exploring all tools listed here.

pat-s/dotfiles

Browsers

• Brave
• Chromium
• Firefox
• Vivaldi

• Coding

Coding

IDEs

• RStudio
• Visual Studio Code

R related tools

• colorout

• radian

• startup

  • IDEs

File Managers

• Dolphin

• SpaceFM

• nnn

• ranger

  • R related tools

GNU/Linux

• ArchLabs
• dmenu
• i3
• sway
• Waybar

• File Managers

Image Viewers

• imv
• sxiv
• xnviewmp

• GNU/Linux

Notes

• Boostnote
• Notable
• Notion

• Image Viewers

Mail

• Mailspring
• Neomutt
• Thunderbird

• Notes

PDF Reader

• Evince
• Okular
• Zathura

• Mail

Presentations

• impressive
• xaringan

• PDF Reader

Reference Managers

• Jabref
• Zotero

• Presentations

Reproducible Research

• docker / rocker (R package)

R Packages

Another excellent compilation: https://github.com/jdblischak/r-project-workflows

• containerit
• drake
• packrat
• redoc
• rrtools.addin
• rrtools
• rticles
• workflowr

Data Storages

• Mendeley Data
• Zenodo

• Reference Managers

Task Management / Organization

• Gitea
• mattermost
• organize
• Slack
• Todoist
• yadm

• Reproducible Research

Terminal related

• byobu

• fish

• MobaXterm (Windows only)

• neovim

• nnn

• rofi

• st

• Tilix

• .tmux

• tmux

• tmuxinator

  • R Packages

Writing

• LibreOffice
• Typora

LaTeX

• arara
• latex-workshop (VScode plugin)
• vimtex (Vim Plugin)

Review

• Dochub

• Overleaf

  • Data Storages

Apps to avoid

• Windows Operating System
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• PuTTY

• Task Management / Organization
• Terminal related
• Writing
  • LaTeX
  • Review
• Apps to avoid