The Study Desk

This page compiles software used for word processing, programming, audio and video processing, in addition to a dictionary and website blocker.

OpenOffice: A free Microsoft Office alternative.
LibreOffice: An alternate fork of OpenOffice, which I find myself using more than OpenOffice these days.

Audacity: A free audio editing program.
Kdenlive: A free video editing program.
OpenShot: A free video editing program. It has a .MP4 to a resolution appropriate to Twitter as it has an Export to Web function. I prefer Kdenlive but Openshot has some useful features.
FFmpeg: A command line based program which lets you create lossless videos and do video format conversions like .GIF to .MP4, as well as combine audio and video sources.

Notepad++: A lightweight IDE, I use this for HTML coding and other small projects. You can set up a dark mode.
RStudio: RStudio is an IDE mixed with the R programming language, excellent statistics focused data analysis package, and completely free.
Anaconda: Anaconda is a bundle of Python packages and includes Jupiter Notebooks with it. Free software and useful for coding in Python.
GitBash: I used this in my PhD to do version control for a lot of code (R mainly). I use it these days to keep track of site updates.

Takoboto: A free japanese dictionary that can be used online or offline. I find the offline feature helpful if I want to search for some japanese keywords. A valuable tool if you are learning japanese, as well.

Anki: Free flashcard software which uses spaced repetition in order to help you learn the card content. There is an online library to download cards for the software either for desktop or mobile.
Cold Turkey Blocker: For a reasonable one-time fee, will allow you to block websites and social media in time periods. This has been invaluable to me and I highly recommend it if you are having trouble controlling the amount of time you spend on social media. There is no mobile version unfortunately.