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Top 23 Productivity Open-Source Projects
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ohmyzsh
🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,500+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
We've all been there. You install Zsh, and the very next recommendation you see online is to install Oh-My-Zsh. For a long time, I did exactly that. But over time, the "magic" of heavy frameworks started to wear thin.
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Project mention: Your Architecture Diagram Is a Screenshot. Your AI Agent Can't Read It. | dev.to | 2026-05-31
The format idea costs you nothing to adopt today: export from excalidraw.com with "Embed scene" on, commit the .excalidraw.png, reference it as a normal image. It renders everywhere and stays editable.
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Project mention: My PC Cries Every Morning, But These 8 Startup Apps Are Worth It | dev.to | 2025-11-12
Files: File Explorer's Cooler, Younger Sibling
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For that specific use case you could also try `yazi`[0], which is a TUI file browser that has image (and other filetypes) preview built in.
[0] https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi
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ShareX
ShareX is a free and open-source application that enables users to capture or record any area of their screen with a single keystroke. It also supports uploading images, text, and various file types to a wide range of destinations.
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khoj
Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.
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dashy
🚀 A self-hostable personal dashboard built for you. Includes status-checking, widgets, themes, icon packs, a UI editor and tons more!
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Cloud Deployment: Dash apps can be deployed to Dash Enterprise or Heroku.
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Project mention: strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-06-02
Probably not as extensive as you mean but its sort of a stepping stone.
https://github.com/wavetermdev/waveterm
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super-productivity
Super Productivity is an advanced todo list app with integrated Timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. It also comes with integrations for Jira, GitLab, GitHub and Open Project.
Project mention: Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-05I appreciate the suggestion but that's what I've been using! :D
In fact, the only area I've been struggling with are "Concepts" because they have less clear boundaries for the right amount of detail.
Here is what I've been working on: https://github.com/super-productivity/super-productivity/wik...
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awesome-python-applications
💿 Free software that works great, and also happens to be open-source Python.
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activitywatch
The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.
Project mention: EFF Launches Age Verification Hub as Resource Against Misguided Laws | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-11Ah okay. I think this would probably be pretty tricky, security-wise, no? One of my first thoughts that might help would be writing a simple tool that parses history from your browsers to categorize it. Other than that, there are things like https://activitywatch.net/ (which seems to have a desktop and Android version)
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keploy
Open-source platform for creating safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and E2E testing.
Project mention: Keploy – Traffic-Based Automated API Test Generator | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-31 -
I worked on getting [Omnivore](https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore) from cloud to self hosting.
I never appreciated the value of Self-hosting until then. I was so sick of finding new services to do essentially the same thing. I just wanted some stability.
Now I can continue using the thing I was already using, and have developed my own custom RSS Reader ontop of Omnivore.
I don't need to care about things breaking my flow. I can update the parsing logic if websites break, or I want to bypass some paywalls. It really changed my view on Self-hosting.
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Project mention: Show HN: RowboatX – open-source Claude Code for everyday automations | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-18
We’ve included the exact agents used in the demo here for reference: https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat/blob/cli/apps/cli/exa....
We’re adding an easier way to run examples soon. In the meantime, if you’d like to try this one locally: (1) Copy the agent file into ~/.rowboat/agents/ (2) Add the MCP server (and your keys) to ~/.rowboat/config/mcp.json (3) Run: 'rowboatx --agent=tweet-podcast --input=go'
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Project mention: Voidtools Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-02-08
https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher
It can be configured to use an existing Voidtools Everything install in its settings, so a universal launcher can double as the everything searchbar
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Project mention: Local Models Orchestration, Personal AI Infrastructure & Multimodal Safety | dev.to | 2026-06-06
Source: https://github.com/danielmiessler/Personal_AI_Infrastructure
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Productivity projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | ohmyzsh | 187,794 |
| 2 | excalidraw | 124,606 |
| 3 | Files | 43,798 |
| 4 | it-tools | 39,125 |
| 5 | yazi | 39,035 |
| 6 | ShareX | 37,965 |
| 7 | khoj | 34,892 |
| 8 | dashy | 25,345 |
| 9 | N1 | 24,753 |
| 10 | dash | 24,231 |
| 11 | nnn | 21,607 |
| 12 | Wave Terminal | 21,031 |
| 13 | super-productivity | 19,909 |
| 14 | Kap | 19,209 |
| 15 | screenity | 18,289 |
| 16 | awesome-python-applications | 17,831 |
| 17 | activitywatch | 17,800 |
| 18 | keploy | 17,599 |
| 19 | omnivore | 16,088 |
| 20 | bash-it | 15,081 |
| 21 | rowboat | 14,898 |
| 22 | Flow.Launcher | 14,855 |
| 23 | Personal_AI_Infrastructure | 14,747 |
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