# dSebastien's Toolbox > A collection of 63 free and paid productivity tools, plugins, and utilities by Sébastien Dubois. ## About Author: Sébastien Dubois Website: https://dsebastien.net Main Site: https://tools.dsebastien.net License: Various (see individual tools) ## Content Structure - / - Homepage with searchable tools grid - /tool/{id} - Individual tool pages with details - /label/{name} - Label-filtered views showing related tools ## Categories - AI Tools (2 tools) - CLI Tools (3 tools) - Courses (11 tools) - Free Resources (5 tools) - Obsidian (22 tools) - Open Source (2 tools) - Platforms (7 tools) - Productivity (2 tools) - Publications (6 tools) - Utilities (2 tools) - Video Tools (1 tools) ## Key Labels - obsidian (24 tools) - plugin (20 tools) - pkm (15 tools) - learning (14 tools) - knowledge-management (13 tools) - ai (10 tools) - productivity (7 tools) - automation (6 tools) - workshop (5 tools) - free (4 tools) - development (4 tools) - articles (4 tools) - community (4 tools) - cli (4 tools) - video (4 tools) ## Tools Overview ### AI Tools - **Knowii Voice AI**: Voice-to-text that respects your privacy. Press, speak, release. Your words appear exactly where you need them. Works everywhere, runs on your computer. URL: https://voice-ai.knowii.net - **WhatsApp Claude Agent (CLI)** (Free): Bridge WhatsApp with Claude Code. Interact with your files, run commands, and get AI assistance directly from WhatsApp messages. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/whatsapp-claude-agent ### CLI Tools - **Ghost Visibility CLI** (Free): A command-line tool to manage the visibility of posts in your Ghost blog. Bulk update post visibility with ease. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/ghost-visibility-cli - **Adobe Premiere Chapters to YouTube (CLI)** (Free): Command-line version of the Adobe Premiere markers to YouTube chapters converter. Perfect for automation and batch processing. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/adobe-premiere-chapters-to-youtube - **YouTube Channel Videos Finder** (Free): CLI tool to find and list all videos from a YouTube channel. Export video data for analysis or archival purposes. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/youtubeChannelVideosFinder ### Courses - **Knowledge Management for Beginners**: A comprehensive course teaching the fundamentals of personal knowledge management. Learn to organize, connect, and leverage your knowledge. URL: https://knowledge-management-for-beginners.com - **Obsidian Starter Course**: Learn Obsidian from scratch. A step-by-step course covering everything from basics to advanced features and workflows. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/obsidian-starter-course - **Journaling Deep Dive**: A hands-on workshop to develop a sustainable journaling practice. Learn techniques for reflection, goal-setting, and personal growth. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/knowii-journaling-deep-dive - **Personal Organization 101**: Master personal organization with proven systems and techniques. Get your life, tasks, and projects under control. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/knowii-personal-organization-101 - **Clarity 101**: Gain clarity on your goals, values, and priorities. A workshop designed to help you focus on what truly matters. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/knowii-clarity-101 - **AI Master Prompt**: Learn to craft effective prompts for AI tools. Master prompt engineering techniques to get better results from ChatGPT, Claude, and more. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/knowii-ai-master-prompt - **Model Context Protocol (MCP)**: Deep dive into Model Context Protocol (MCP). Learn to build AI-powered tools and integrate them with your workflows. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/knowii-model-context-protocol-mcp - **AI Ghostwriter Guide**: Transform any AI into your personal ghostwriter that writes with your exact voice, style, and expertise using this proven step-by-step system. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/ai-ghostwriter-guide - **PKM Coaching**: One-on-one coaching sessions to help you build and optimize your personal knowledge management system. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/pkm-coaching - **PKM Library**: A huge collection of curated resources, guides, tools, communities, experts, courses, books, videos, podcasts and more focused on Personal Knowledge Management. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/PersonalKnowledgeManagementLibrary - **Everything Knowledge Bundle**: A bundle that includes most Knowledge Management and Knowledge Work products: PKM Library, Obsidian Starter Kit, Knowledge Worker Kit, courses, and workshops. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/everything-knowledge ### Free Resources - **Free Knowledge System Checklist** (Free): A clear roadmap to building your own Knowledge System. Evaluate and improve your personal knowledge management system. URL: https://www.dsebastien.net/free-knowledge-management-system-checklist - **Free Beginner's Guide to Obsidian** (Free): A free 50+ page Beginner's Guide to Obsidian. Learn essential features, organization best practices, and advanced techniques to master this powerful note-taking tool. URL: https://www.dsebastien.net/free-beginners-guide-to-mastering-obsidian - **PKM Homepage** (Free): A simple page describing what personal knowledge management is. URL: https://personal-knowledge-management.com - **Free Tools for Thought Database** (Free): Discover the Ultimate Database of ~300 note-taking and Personal Knowledge Management Tools. URL: https://www.dsebastien.net/free-pkm-tools-database - **Knowledge Management 101** (Free): A free introductory video about Knowledge Management fundamentals. Learn the basics of organizing and leveraging your knowledge. URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYqn9651pvA ### Obsidian - **Obsidian Starter Kit**: The most comprehensive Obsidian starter kit. A complete system for personal knowledge management, journaling, and productivity in Obsidian. URL: https://obsidianstarterkit.com - **Obsidian Publisher** (Free): Publish your Obsidian notes to the web. A tool for sharing your knowledge with the world. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-publisher - **Obsidian Update Time** (Free): Obsidian plugin that automatically updates the modification time in your note's frontmatter whenever you edit a file. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-update-time - **Obsidian Typefully** (Free): Obsidian plugin to publish your notes directly to Typefully for Twitter/X threads. Write once, publish everywhere. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-typefully - **Obsidian Replicate** (Free): Obsidian plugin to generate AI images using Replicate directly from your notes. Powered by Stable Diffusion and other models. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-replicate - **Obsidian Dataview Serializer** (Free): Obsidian plugin that serializes Dataview queries to Markdown. Keep your queries' output even without Dataview installed. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-dataview-serializer - **Obsidian Plugin Template** (Free): An opinionated, AI-ready GitHub template to scaffold Obsidian plugins with Bun, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, automated releases, and a structured AGENTS.md for coding agents. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-plugin-template - **Obsidian Life Tracker** (Free): Capture and visualize the data that matters in your life. Includes a Base View with 12 chart types including heatmaps, line, bar, area, pie, radar, and more. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-life-tracker-base-view - **Obsidian Journal Base** (Free): Base views for managing periodic notes and conducting reviews across daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly timeframes. Features inline editing, hierarchical navigation, and Templater integration. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-journal-base - **Obsidian Expander** (Free): Obsidian plugin for automatic variable substitution across your vault. Define key-value pairs and use HTML comment markers to trigger dynamic text replacements. URL: https://developassion.gitbook.io/obsidian-expander/ - **Obsidian Note Village** (Free): An AI-powered game within Obsidian where your notes become villagers you can chat with. Areas are based on your most-used tags, creating a mind palace to explore and converse with your past selves. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-note-village - **Obsidian Book Exporter** (Free): Obsidian plugin that turns a structured note tree into a real book, exported to EPUB and PDF via Pandoc. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-book-exporter - **Obsidian Bookshelf** (Free): Obsidian Base view that displays your reading library as a beautiful bookshelf with cover effects. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-bookshelf - **Obsidian Ghost Publish** (Free): Obsidian plugin that publishes vault notes to a Ghost blog, with reusable presets for tags, newsletters, and frontmatter conventions. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-ghost-publish - **Obsidian Graph Explorer Base View** (Free): Interactive force-directed graph view for Obsidian Bases, with exploration tracking, maturity levels, and rich node visualization. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-graph-explorer-base-view - **Obsidian Hidden Folders Access** (Free): Obsidian plugin that exposes hidden dot-folders (.claude, .github, ...) to search, graph, and Bases without renaming them on disk. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-hidden-folders-access - **Obsidian CLI REST MCP** (Free): Obsidian plugin that exposes all Obsidian CLI commands through a local REST API and an MCP server for scripts, tools, and AI assistants. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-cli-rest - **Obsidian reMarkable Sync** (Free): Obsidian plugin that connects to the reMarkable cloud (or a self-hosted rmFakeCloud) to sync notebook pages as images into your vault. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-remarkable-sync - **Obsidian Time Machine** (Free): Obsidian plugin to browse, diff, and restore previous versions of notes from File Recovery snapshots or Git history. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-time-machine - **Obsidian Transcriber** (Free): Obsidian plugin that transcribes images to Markdown using local Ollama vision models. No data leaves your computer. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-transcriber - **Agentic Resource Discovery Server** (Free): Obsidian plugin that turns your vault into a local-first AI Skills registry, with a localhost REST and MCP server so agents can search and fetch exactly the skill they need without it ever leaving your machine. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-agentic-resource-discovery-server - **Kanban Action Planner** (Free): Obsidian plugin that adds Kanban board and calendar views to Bases, driven by your note properties. Drag cards to update statuses, dates, and relationships, all written straight back to your frontmatter. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-kanban-action-planner ### Open Source - **Stark Framework** (Free): An open-source Angular framework for building enterprise applications. Includes common UI components and patterns. URL: https://stark.nbb.be - **REST API Design Guide** (Free): An open-source guide for designing RESTful APIs. Best practices, naming conventions, and design patterns. URL: https://github.com/NationalBankBelgium/REST-API-Design-Guide/wiki ### Platforms - **PKM Reddit Community** (Free): The Reddit community for personal knowledge management discussions, tips, and tool recommendations. URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/PersonalKnowledgeMgmt - **Knowii Complete Knowledge System**: The central hub integrating community, customers, content, courses, products and services. For leaders, knowledge workers, solopreneurs, and content creators who want to break free from information overload. URL: https://www.dsebastien.net/join-the-knowii-community-and-fix-your-information-overload-problem/ - **dSebastien Website** (Free): My personal website and blog. Articles about software development, productivity, knowledge management, and more. URL: https://www.dsebastien.net - **Knowledge Forge Store**: Online store offering courses, systems, and tools for knowledge workers and creators. The central hub for all educational products and resources. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net - **dSebastien YouTube Channel** (Free): YouTube channel with videos about software development, productivity, knowledge management, Obsidian, and more. URL: https://www.youtube.com/@dsebastien - **dSebastien Public Notes** (Free): My public notes and digital garden. A collection of interconnected notes on various topics. URL: https://notes.dsebastien.net - **Knowii Affiliate Program** (Free): A mission-driven partnership for content creators, PKM practitioners, and community members. Earn 40% commissions on all Knowii ecosystem products. URL: https://www.dsebastien.net/knowii-affiliate-program/ ### Productivity - **Week Planner** (Free): A beautiful weekly planning tool to organize your tasks, appointments, and goals. Plan your week visually and stay productive. URL: https://weekplanner.tools.dsebastien.net - **Knowledge Worker Kit**: A comprehensive toolkit for knowledge workers. Includes templates, workflows, and best practices for effective knowledge work. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/knowledge-worker-kit ### Publications - **Dev Concepts**: A 12-volume book series covering fundamental software development concepts. From basics to advanced topics. URL: https://dev-concepts.dev - **IT Concepts Wall**: A visual reference poster of essential IT and software development concepts. Perfect for your office or study space. URL: https://store.dsebastien.net/l/it-concepts-wall - **PKM Journal** (Free): A publication dedicated to personal knowledge management. Articles, insights, and best practices for PKM enthusiasts. URL: https://pkmjournal.com - **DeveloPassion's Podcast** (Free): A podcast that shares my most popular articles in audio form. Available on Substack and Spotify. URL: https://developassion.substack.com/podcast - **Learn TypeScript by Building Web Applications**: A practical guide to understanding TypeScript and its role in modern web development. Build real-world applications while learning TypeScript fundamentals. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Learn-TypeScript-Building-Applications-understanding/dp/1789615860 - **dSebastien Newsletter** (Free): Weekly newsletter about software development, productivity, knowledge management, and personal growth. URL: https://www.dsebastien.net/newsletter/ ### Utilities - **Ghost Subscribe** (Free): Utility code for adding subscription functionality to Ghost blogs. Easy integration for newsletter sign-ups. URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/ghost-subscribe - **ADMX Viewer** (Free): A web app for browsing local ADMX and ADML files, searching across Group Policy settings, editing values, and exporting enforceable policy payloads (.reg, PowerShell, Intune XML, JSON). URL: https://github.com/dsebastien/admx-viewer ### Video Tools - **Adobe Premiere Chapters to YouTube** (Free): Convert Adobe Premiere Pro markers to YouTube chapter format. Paste your markers and get perfectly formatted YouTube timestamps. URL: https://adobe-premiere-markers-to-youtube.tools.dsebastien.net/ ## Data Access - Tools JSON: /src/data/tools.json ## Contact - Author: Sébastien Dubois (https://dsebastien.net) - GitHub: https://github.com/dsebastien - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiend/