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🎁 Small things without a better home

Having fun without clear goals? What a concept.

Text-based stuff

=> 📝 JourNote

• proof of concept journal app with a text user interface
• written in Python for the command line
• reasonably friendly; works with plain text files

=> 💎 GemView

• a simple viewer for local GemText files
• written in Python for the command line; see built-in help
• works on low-res screens

=> Keep an EyeOut

• a tool to eye the outline of various documents (and convert them)
• written in Python for the command line; see built-in help

=> Ripen Scripting Engine

• stack-based language with highly readable syntax
• string-threaded, very fast and easy to implement

=> 🐍 Snaked line editor

• line editor written in and for Python, with some less usual features
• modern, friendly, self-documented, easy to modify

=> 🦆 DukTerm

• a binding of the curses API to the Duktape Javascript interpreter
• comes with a port of the Dungeon Romp roguelike demo

The "plain text office" suite

=> 🐈 Cozy Catalog

• A little personal database for media libraries and similar

=> ToyEd

• A toy text editor in Tcl/Tk for educational purposes
• 700 lines of crystal-clear code; works on low-res screens

=> Scrunch Edit

• A two-pane outliner for Markdown and org files
• written in Python and Tkinter (now Tcl/Tk); works on low-res screens

=> 🔖 OutNoted

• an outline note-taking editor
• written in Python and Tkinter
• works on low-res screens

More small things

=> 🐢 Tipsy Turtle

• turtle graphics program for making banners and logos
• open source and portable; Linux builds available

=> WireView 3D

• simple previewer for 3D models in STL or OBJ format
• open source and portable; Linux builds available

=> Gophersnake

• Gopher client for the desktop with clean, modern looks
• written in Python with Tkinter

See also

=> No Time To Play homepage | Games for Linux and such | Writing about games and code

Last modified: 24 January 2024