Useful Content

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Swiss Army Knives

Highly recommend getting these if u touch a computer

• ShareX - Windows-only Screenshot, capture, record, sharing, on screen editing, automation, and more !!!!!!!!!! - Oct 25 2024
  • SnapX - A hard fork of ShareX that is compatible with Linux and MacOS (ShareX is Windows only); still in very early development and I have not tried it yet, but it is likely that this is probably better than ShareX very soon… but I haven’t used it so YMMV - Nov 21 2025
• Everything - Instant file search on Windows - Nov 28 2025
• Bitwarden - Super simple, streamlined, free, and open source password manager that works and syncs cross-platform - Oct 25 2024
  • If ur good with computers, can also be self hosted - Oct 25 2024
• ActivityWatch - Automated time tracker that fully runs locally, and is highly customizable to track ur computer use however way u want to - Oct 25 2024
• RapidTables - Exhaustive set of tools for web, day to day online tasks, math, science, engineering, misc. calculators, converters, and more - Oct 25 2024
  • Knowledge Walls - Similar to RapidTables, but with tools more focused towards files and programming - Oct 25 2024
• cryptii - Modular encoding, decoding, or conversion of text, numbers, and data online - Oct 25 2024
  

Entertaining Websites

Web Art

• corru.observer - Nov 21 2025
• Homestuck - Nov 21 2025
• GODHEAD - Nov 21 2025
• 17776 - Nov 21 2025
  

Interactive Websites

• A Soft Murmur - Customizable ambient sound mixer - Nov 21 2025
• Radio Garden - Explore live radio by rotating the globe - Nov 21 2025
• Every Noise at Once - A map of music genres and artists SUPER USEFUL - Nov 21 2025
• WindowSwap - View video clips of other people’s window views from around the world - Nov 21 2025
• Our World of Text - Massive online anonymous canvas to write bullshit in - Nov 21 2025
  • Your World of Text - Original version of the site - Nov 21 2025
• Hacker Typer - Fake hacking simulator - Nov 21 2025
• The Useless Web - Takes you to a random useless website - Nov 21 2025
• Wiki-Map - A map with geolocated wikipedia links - Nov 21 2025
• Kialo - Debate platform of shitass arguments on any side structured nicely to give yourself the worst brainrot on - Nov 21 2025
  

Fun Collectives / Personal sites

• 𝙻ΛƬΣX 4000 - My collective!!! - Nov 21 2025
• 100rabbits - Art and tech duo that live on a boat - Nov 21 2025
• Tildeverse - Directory of tilde servers tgat u can get an account on and join the community - Nov 21 2025
  • Tilde.club - One of the most popular tilde servers - Nov 21 2025
• Neocities - Free web hosting service that aims to revive the spirit of GeoCities - Nov 21 2025
• Nekoweb - Neocities 2.0 - Oct 25 2024
• imput.net - Duo/collective who made cobalt.tools and other cool stuff - Nov 21 2025
  

Gaming

Platforms/Stores

• Steam - PC gaming platform, p much de facto for many ppl - Nov 21 2025
  • SteamDB - Database site for stats on Steam and games on Steam - Nov 21 2025
• itch.io - Platform with basically all indie games and smaller creators and epic - Nov 21 2025
• Game Jolt - Another platform with basically all indie games and smaller creators - Nov 21 2025
• GOG - DRM-free game store; has a lot of older games - Nov 21 2025
  

Resource for Games

• PCGamingWiki - Wiki for fixing and optimizing PC games - Nov 21 2025
• Playnite - Open source video game library manager with support for multiple platforms (Steam, GOG, Epic, e.t.c.) - Nov 21 2025
  • Lutris - Open source gaming platform for Linux that helps you install and manage games from different sources (Steam, GOG, emulators, e.t.c.) - Nov 21 2025
• ProtonDB - Database of how well Windows games run on Linux (incl. SteamOS) (via Proton) - Nov 21 2025
  

Game Development

• Godot Engine - Free and open source game engine - Nov 21 2025
• Unity - Popular game engine - Nov 21 2025
• Unreal Engine - Another popular game engine - Nov 21 2025
• Tiled - 2D tile map editor - Nov 21 2025
• Bfxr - Retro sound effect generator - Nov 21 2025
• Aseprite - Pixel art and animation tool - Nov 21 2025
• RPG Maker - RPG making software - Nov 21 2025
• GameMaker - Another game making software - Nov 21 2025
• Twine - Interactive/Hypertext game making software - Nov 21 2025
  

Video/Audio

Downloading

• cobalt.tools - Very versatile, reliable, and fast media downloader. Supports a bunch of sites and services - Oct 25 2024
  • instances.cobalt.best - List of public instances in case the main site is down - Nov 21 2025
  • cobalt.directory - Another list of public instances - Nov 21 2025
• yt-dlp - A command line tool to download youtube videos/audio with extra features and fixes. - Oct 25 2024
  • Hard fork of youtube-dl because youtube-dl is(was?) slowly dying off and there’s been a lot of improvements and fixes in yt-dlp which you can see here - Nov 21 2025
  • If ur not comfortable with command lines, use yt-dlp-gui but I haven’t used it so YMMV - Nov 21 2025
    

Editing

• ffmpeg - A super robust command line tool to record, convert and stream audio and video. SUPER USEFUL for editing and converting media files - Oct 25 2024
  • ffmprovisr - A tool to help Normal people to use ffmpeg; again, ffmpeg is SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
  • Handbrake - Basically a GUI for ffmpeg that is pretty good for basic video conversion and compression - Nov 21 2025
• G-MEH - Extensive library of VSTs, DAWs and plugins for audio editing and music production SUPER USEFUL - Nov 23 2025
  • HIGHLY SUGGEST looking at this if you want to make music!!! - Nov 23 2025
• ExifTool - Metadata editor - Oct 25 2024
• DaVinci Resolve - Professional video editing software (free version is very capable) - Nov 21 2025
• Tenacity - Non-spyware Audacity - Oct 25 2024
  • Audacity - Original Audacity which is a very streamlined audio editing and recording tool; spyware owned for a while now - Nov 21 2025
• Avidemux - Simple video editor that’s good for quick cutting/clipping - Oct 25 2024
• OBS - Open Broadcaster Software, THE go to for streaming or recording SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
• Ableton Live - Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), in other words, music production software (this is the one I use) SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
  • LMMS - A decent alternative to Ableton Live with a pretty good set of features to make music in if you need something free instead - Oct 25 2024
  • Musescore - Another free and open source alternative, but more focused on sheet music/notation - Oct 25 2024
• LovelyComposer - Chiptune music creation tool inspired by Mario Paint Composer - Oct 25 2024
• Furnace - Super robust chiptune music creation tool - Oct 25 2024
  • FamiStudio - NES-focused music creation tool, more user-friendly and easier to get into (especially if u dont code or know what the fuck GitHub is) - Oct 25 2024
• Bfxr - Retro sound effect generator - Nov 21 2025
  

Sharing

• ShareX - SWISS ARMY KNIFE EQUIVALENT FOR SOFTWARE - Oct 25 2024
  • PLEASEE if you don’t use Windows then try SnapX im begging u to make ur life easier - Nov 21 2025
    

Discovering

• Every Noise at Once - A map of music genres and artists (RIP updates cuz the guy got fired from Spotify but it’s still up) SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
• RateYourMusic - Music discovery and reviews - Oct 25 2024
  • Album of the Year - A smaller site with basically the same functionality - Oct 25 2024
  • Name Your Price Essentials - List of free music from Bandcamp that’s rated highly on RYM - Oct 25 2024
• ktt2 - (Primarily rap) music forum - Oct 27 2024
• Letterboxd - Movie discovery and reviews - Oct 25 2024
• Discogs - Music database and marketplace (good for vinyls) - Oct 25 2024
• MusicBrainz - Music database and (usually) comprehensive artist/music metadata - Oct 25 2024
  

Streaming

• Invidious - Open source alternative for browsing YouTube (going to be especially useful when adblockers get banned) - Oct 25 2024
  • List of instances: invidious.snopyta.org - Oct 25 2024
  • Most commonly used: yewtu.be - Oct 25 2024
  • LibreTube is another alternative for Android - Oct 25 2024
• Bandcamp - Music streaming and purchasing site SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
• SoundCloud - Music streaming and sharing site - Oct 25 2024
• MiniMeters - Simple but very robust visualizer for audio output that even helps with music production - Oct 25 2024
• foobar2000 - Lightweight but also very advanced music player - Oct 25 2024
• MPC-HC - Lightweight but also very advanced video player (better than VLC) SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
  • Their site does say that the project is dead, but it’s actively mantained in the fork I linked above - Oct 25 2024
  • The download is in their releases page if you don’t know how to navigate GitHub - Oct 25 2024
    

Images

Editing

• ShareX - Has a super robust capturing + editor system (even includes automation features) SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
  • Mandatory if no Windows then try SnapX - Nov 21 2025
• Ezgif - Absolutely goated online GIF editor with literally every gif editing feature ever SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
• Photopea - Basically free and online Photoshop - Oct 25 2024
• ffmpeg - It does images too! (Don’t need ImageMagick) - Oct 25 2024
• Photomosh - Glitch art generation site - Oct 25 2024
• ExifTool - Metadata editor - Oct 25 2024
• waifu2x - OG Image upscaler (and noise reduction) - Oct 25 2024
  • unlimted waifu2x - waifu2x that runs in browser instead (more rendering options) - Oct 25 2024
• remove.bg - Drag and drop background remover - Oct 25 2024
• GIMP - Go to image editor (if you don’t have Photoshop) - Oct 25 2024
  

Drawing

• Drawabox - Drawing lessons - Oct 27 2024
• Inkscape - Illustrating and vector graphics - Oct 25 2024
• Krita - Digital art and drawing (better than GIMP or Paint.NET for drawing) - Oct 25 2024
• Aseprite - Pixel art and animation - Oct 25 2024
  

Tools (Not Editing)

• Canva/Colors - Good information on colour palettes and the colour wheel SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
  • Coolors - Color palette generator with features nonexistent in Canva - Oct 25 2024
• PNGOUT - PNG compression IF YUOU GIVE A SHIT, THAT SITE USES HTTP INSTEAD OF HTTPS CUZ ITS OLD AND SMELLY FROM 2009, IN OTHER WORDS, ACCESSING THE SITE IS INSECURE (IF YOU GIVE A SHIT) - Oct 25 2024
  • Download is in his utils page, alongside other very useful and interesting tools - Oct 25 2024
  • If u don’t know how to use a command line, ur gonna have to pay for PNGOUTWin from the utils page Lol - Oct 25 2024
    

Writing

Editors

• Obsidian - Fully featured markdown editor with super epic interlinking features and plugins SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
• Dillinger - Super minimal online markdown editor - Oct 25 2024
• Notion - All-in-1 site for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases, and semi-related but kinda like a good replacement for Google features in organizing things aside for email (but it will soon apparently) - Oct 25 2024
• Workflowy - Ultra minimal editor perfect for (nested) bullet point list structures - Oct 25 2024
  

Sharing

• GitHub Gist - Easy way to publish snippets of text (or code) online, can be used as a PasteBin alternative - Oct 25 2024
• PrivateBin - FOSS Pastebin alternative with better privacy/security - Oct 25 2024
• Bearblog - Free minimalist blog hosting - Oct 25 2024
  • Write.as - Another free minimalist blog hoster - Oct 25 2024
• Telegra.ph - Always public, write plain text, publish anonymously (Note: hosted by Telegram) - Oct 27 2024
  

Writing Aid

• Hemingway Editor - Free offline error highlighter of various types and complexity in your text - Oct 25 2024
• WordCounter - Word and character counter SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
• Falla-easies - Super simple list of fallacies - Oct 25 2024
• OneLook - Dictionary (and pseudo-reverse dictionary) + rly funny search feature and also a catalog of connotations - Oct 25 2024
• WordHippo - Thesaurus and rhyming dictionary - Oct 25 2024
  

Fonts

• FontForge - Free font editor - Oct 25 2024
• Google Fonts - Pretty good set of fonts that Google provides - Oct 25 2024
• Fontshare - Really good set of fonts that people obsessed with fonts provide - Oct 25 2024
• Open Foundry - Directory of open source fonts - Oct 25 2024
  

Tools (Not Editing)

• Text Mechanic - A bunch of text manipulation tools SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
• Multiline to Single line - Copypaste text to put it all into a single line - Oct 25 2024
• Random Word Generator - Random Word Generator - Oct 25 2024
  • Multiple languages! - Oct 25 2024
  • Also has a bunch of other random generators (but some are only English) - Oct 25 2024
    

Reading

• Calibre - Best ebook manager and and reader and shit SUPER USEFUL - Oct 27 2024
• Anna’s Archive - Largest archive of any type of text ever SUPER USEFUL - Oct 27 2024
• Project Gutenberg - More free books - Oct 27 2024
• Library Genesis - Good for textbooks - Oct 27 2024
• Sci-Hub - Access to scientific papers - Oct 27 2024
• The Anarchist Library - Anarchist literature anyone can read and contribute to - Oct 27 2024
• server.elscione.com - Sophisticated LN epub DB + some other random stuff - Oct 27 2024
  

Anime/Manga

• Anilist - Anime and manga database and social network - Oct 25 2024
  • MyAnimeList - The more popular alternative - Oct 25 2024
  • Kitsu - Another alternative - Oct 25 2024
• Cubari - A good manga reader that u can read manga from other sites on - Oct 25 2024
  • MangaDex - A good place to find manga and copypaste into Cubari for a better reading experience - Oct 25 2024
• nyaa.si - Anime and manga torrent site - Oct 25 2024
• Novel Updates - Light novel database - Oct 27 2024
• The Visual Novel Database - Visual novel database - Oct 27 2024
• Pixiv - Goated japanese art site Accessible NSFW - Oct 25 2024
• DLsite - Japanese doujin site Easily accessible NSFW - Oct 25 2024
• Gelbooru - Anime/hentai imageboard NSFW - Oct 25 2024
  

Computer Utilities

File Management / Storage

• Everything - Instant file search on Windows SUPER USEFUL - Nov 21 2025
• 7-Zip - Free and open source file archiver with various archiving options SUPER USEFUL - Nov 21 2025
• Syncthing - Open source file synchronization program u can use between ur devices (pc, mac, phones, e.t.c.) that works over LAN or internet - Nov 21 2025
• WizTree - Super fast disk space analyzer for Windows - Nov 21 2025
  • WinDirStat - Another disk space analyzer but slower but also its the one I used mostly - Nov 21 2025
    

Resource Monitoring

• Process Hacker/System Informer - Advanced process viewer and system monitor for Windows - Nov 21 2025
• HWMonitor - Hardware monitoring tool for Windows - Nov 21 2025
• Speccy - Detailed system information tool for Windows - Nov 21 2025
• CrystalDiskInfo - HDD/SSD health monitoring tool for Windows - Nov 21 2025
  

System Maintenance / Optimization

• Bulk Crap Uninstaller - Very good tool for uninstalling bullshit from Windows - Nov 21 2025
  • Windows10Debloater - Script to remove bloatware from Windows 10 - Nov 21 2025
  • Win11Debloat - Script to remove bloatware from Windows 11 - Nov 21 2025
• Ninite - Omega installer/updater for random stuff on Windows - Nov 21 2025
  

System Tools

• Rufus - Create bootable USB drives from ISO files SUPER USEFUL - Nov 21 2025
• PowerToys - Really good collection of utilities by Microsoft for Windows that are for some reason not just in Windows OS from the start - Nov 21 2025
• AutoHotkey - Automation scripting language for Windows to create keybinds and shit - Nov 21 2025
  

Programming

Editors

• Visual Studio Code - Easiest code editor to get into with a lot of tooling and extensions SUPER USEFUL - Oct 25 2024
  • Lapce - May be a viable and more efficient alternative to VSCode soon (if it isn’t already) - Oct 25 2024
  • Zed - Another potential alternative to VSCode, supposedly VSC but faster but I heard they also littered the shit out of it with AI tools so no idea - Nov 21 2025
• NeoVim - A more advanced and efficient code editor if ur insane - Oct 25 2024
• Emacs - Another even more advanced and efficient code editor if ur insane - Oct 25 2024
  

Coding Resources

• Regex101 - Online regex tester and debugger SUPER USEFUL - Nov 21 2025
• DevDocs - Documentation for pretty much every coding language and framework - Oct 25 2024
• Learn X in Y Minutes - Quick reference for coding languages - Oct 25 2024
• MDN Web Docs - Web development documentation - Oct 25 2024
• Can I Use - Browser compatibility tables for HTML, CSS, JS - Oct 25 2024
• Codecademy - Really basic and easy to follow coding tutorials - Oct 25 2024
  

Command Line/Terminals

• SS64 - Command line references for Windows, Linux, and macOS - Oct 25 2024

Windows

• Windows Terminal - Improved terminal experience for Windows - Oct 25 2024

Linux

• tldr.sh - Simplified documentation for common commands - Oct 25 2024
  

Web Development

• Next - Good server-based framework (not good for static/beginners) - Oct 25 2024
  • NOTE: Next is made by Vercel, and the CEO is a shithead AND zionist. Frankly I still use Vercel’s free hosting since it’s basically leeching off of them but I SUGGEST NOT USING NEXT SERIOUSLY, AND DO NOT PAY FOR THEIR SERVICES!!! Consider the other 2 below (or Astro if you are just making a static site!) - Nov 21 2025
  • Nuxt - Vue version of Next and sexier - Oct 25 2024
  • SvelteKit - Svelte version of Next and also sexier - Oct 25 2024
• Astro - Good static framework (not good for server-side/beginners) - Oct 25 2024
• Neocities - Free web hosting and pseudo-social media site - Oct 25 2024
  • Nekoweb - Neocities 2.0 - Oct 25 2024
  • GitHub Pages - If ur just looking for free web hosting this is probably the simplest and most reliable - Oct 25 2024
  • Vercel - Can host sites that arent static - Oct 25 2024
    • NOTE: Vercel’s CEO is a shithead AND zionist, DO NOT PAY FOR THEIR SERVICES!!! Personally I think using their free tier is still completely fine tho since thats effectively just leeching off them - Nov 21 2025
  • Netlify - Can also host sites that arent static - Oct 25 2024
• Hugo - Static site generator - Oct 25 2024
  • Jekyll - Another static site generator - Oct 25 2024
  • Gatsby - Another static site generator - Oct 25 2024
  • Hexo - Another static site generator - Oct 25 2024
• Bearblog - Free minimalist blog hosting as said before in the writing section - Oct 25 2024
  • Write.as - Another free minimalist blog hoster - Oct 25 2024
    

Security

• Bitwarden - Super simple, streamlined, free, and open source password manager that works and syncs cross-platform - Oct 27 2024
  • If ur good with computers, can also be self hosted SUPER USEFUL - Oct 27 2024
• Fake Identity Generator - Generates an entirely fake persona to use - Oct 27 2024
• thispersondoesnotexist - Generates a face that doesn’t exist every refresh - Oct 27 2024
• Have I Been Pwned - Check if your email has been compromised - Oct 27 2024
• anonaddy - Anon email forwarding - Oct 27 2024
• ProtonMail - Encrypted email - Oct 27 2024
• Tor - Anonymity network - Oct 27 2024
• Tails - OS if ur a paranoid schizophrenic - Oct 27 2024
• Signal - Encrypted messaging - Oct 27 2024
• VeraCrypt - Encrypt Ur Files - Oct 27 2024
  

General Productivity

• ActivityWatch - Automated time tracker SUPER USEFUL - Oct 27 2024
• Notion - All-in-1 site thing again - Oct 27 2024
  • Obsidian - Goated markdown editor again SUPER USEFUL - Oct 27 2024
• Trello - Yeaaa I love organization yeaaaaaaa - Oct 27 2024
• World Time Buddy - Super simple time zone comparer - Oct 31 2024
• When2meet - Super simple event planner - Oct 31 2024
  

Work/Study Specific

• Notion - All-in-1 site thing again - Oct 27 2024
  • Obsidian - Goated markdown editor again SUPER USEFUL - Oct 27 2024
• Excalidraw - Whiteboard tool - Oct 27 2024
• Trello - Task management and organization - Oct 27 2024
• Anki - Robust flashcard app - Oct 27 2024
• Pomofocus - Timer that breaks ur shit into intervals or whatever i don’t actually do this myself and there isnt really any research done on its effectiveness (AFAIK) but it helps some people working on things this way - Oct 27 2024
• levels.fyi - Site to compare salaries and shit - Oct 27 2024
  

Office Tools

• LibreOffice - Free office suite - Jan 23 2026
• Vertex42 - Shitton of spreadsheet templates, mainly business/finance related but also good for math/stats and general management/organization stuff - Jan 23 2026

Research

• Anna’s Archive - Largest archive of any type of text ever SUPER USEFUL - Jan 23 2026
• Library Genesis - Good for textbooks - Jan 23 2026
• Sci-Hub - Access to scientific papers - Jan 23 2026
• Zotero - Reference manager and generates citations SUPER USEFUL - Jan 23 2026
• WebPlotDigitizer - Helps extract data from plots, images, graphs, maps, e.t.c. SUPER USEFUL - Jan 23 2026
  • If you don’t want to make an account, you can use a version of it that’s up by the University of Tennessee here - Jan 23 2026
  • It’s also open source if u wanna self-host or download locally - Jan 23 2026
    

Math Tools

• WolframAlpha - Goated calculator SUPER USEFUL - Jan 23 2026
• Desmos - Graphing calculator - Jan 23 2026
• GeoGebra - 3D Graphing calculator but also interactive geometry, algebra, statistics, and calculus stuff - Jan 23 2026
  • Desmos can also do 3D graphing as well, but the prios are diff (Desmos -> 2D; GeoGebra -> 3D) - Jan 23 2026
• Symbolab - Step by step calculator - Jan 23 2026
  

Food/Drugs

Food

• GrimGrains - Vegan recipes - Oct 27 2024
• JustHungry - Japanese recipes - Oct 27 2024
• Cook Well - Good recipes and includes info about food fundamentals - Oct 27 2024
  

Drugs

• PsychonautWiki - Relatively robust drug wiki - Oct 27 2024
• The Drug Classroom - Dead YT channel project but still contains a shitton of useful centralized information if you want to understand the pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics and chemistry of the drugs u might wanna take - Oct 27 2024
  

Other Good Lists On The Internet

• BOOKMRKS-MTHRFCKR - The biggest list of things ull ever see, AND its well indexed - Oct 25 2024
• computervirus.neocities list - Oct 25 2024
• jd.bearblog (Down as of Nov 21 2025… looking to see if I can get it in any capacity because that list was really good actually) - Nov 21 2025
• brisray.com - Oct 25 2024
• indieseek.xyz - Oct 25 2024
• The Useless Web - Oct 25 2024
  • You can find the list of sites it can take u to here - Oct 25 2024