Documents

A curated list of free software that can be run on your own machine, sorted by what the software does.

A library that renders flowcharts, sequence diagrams, timelines and mind maps from short blocks of plain text.

One program that reads your documents and answers questions about them, with the model running locally if you want.

A very light place to write short notes, privately, searchable and tagged.

A typesetting system that compiles a plain-text source file into a polished PDF in milliseconds.

A presentation tool where the whole deck is one Markdown file.

It reads the words on scans and invoices so they can be searched like email.

A notebook whose notes stay as files you own.

The CRDT everyone uses — several people editing one document at once, offline edits merging cleanly later.

An editing screen for a website whose pages live as files in a repository, where every save becomes an ordinary commit.

A self-hosted wiki organised as shelves, books, chapters and pages.

It turns an indented Markdown list into a foldable mind map in the browser.

It saves the readable text of any web article on a machine you control.

A self-hosted bookmark manager that keeps an offline copy of each saved page.

Generates editable slide decks from a prompt or a document, on a machine you control, using whichever AI model you choose.

A self-hosted bookmark manager that installs with one Docker command and exports in the standard browser format.

It extracts the main article from a web page and returns it as Markdown.

A shared notepad in the browser where several people write the same document at the same time.

One source file rendered into a web page, a PDF and a slide deck, with Python code executed inside the document.

It is an editing screen for a website whose content lives in a git repository.

It turns one Markdown file into slides, a PDF or a PowerPoint file with one command.

A checker for natural-language text, with every rule installed separately.

The ready-made server Yjs needs to share one document between people.

A writing screen for the Markdown blog posts that already live in the website project, saved back as files with no database.

A small feed reader that one person runs on a machine of their own.

Pulls the explanation notes out of Python code and renders them on a documentation site.

A search page over the contents of your own files, including inside zip folders.