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  1. BorgBackup

    Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

    A simple way to do online backups separately from sync is Duplicati. It's open source and it'll back up an encrypted, deduplicated archive of your files to wherever you choose. I have my most important stuff backed up for free on the 15G free space on Drive. I also have local backups using Borg. Duplicati is automatic, but limited to more important stuff. Borg is for all my files, and I run it once manually every day or so.

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  3. jabref

    Desktop app for managing BibTeX and BibLaTeX (.bib) libraries

    Just gonna shamelessly plug another reference manager here: JabRef

  4. configuration

    Discontinued My configs: OS setups, dotfiles, scripts and more. (by cadadr)

    FWIW I have this little Perl script that fetches BibTeX from doi.org for DOI numbers: https://github.com/cadadr/configuration/blob/76466b1342aaadfddf3453ab70ada4a15e82afbb/bin/doi2bib.pl I searched a lot for a way to make something similar for ISBN -> BibTeX to no avail...

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