Art supplies

• Artist's portfolio
• Adhesive tape
• Clamps
• Cutting mat
• Drill and drill bits
• Found objects
• Glue
• Rubber cement
• Scissors
• Sewing needles and thread (yarn)
• Stapler
• Tape measure
• Utility knife
• Wheat paste
• X-Acto knife and blades

Drawing

• Clipboard
• Colored pencils
• Compass (drafting)
• Corrugated fiberboard
• Dip pens
• Drawing board
• Drawing triangles
• Erasers
• Felt-tip pens
• French curves
• Folding table
• Graphite pencils
• India ink
• Ink brushes
• Lightbox
• Loupe
• Magnifying glass light fixture
• Mechanical pencils
• Micron pens
• Pencil sharpener
• Rollerball pens
• Rulers
• Sandpaper
• T-squares

Painting

• Acrylic paints
• Apron
• Beets
• Birch leaves
• Black tea
• Blackberries
• Bristle brushes
• Color wheel
• Gouache paints
• Pastels
• Screen printing stencils and squeegees
• Strawberries
• Sumi-e ink
• Toothbrush
• Watercolor paints
• Wet palette

Paper

• Arches paper
• Bristol board
• Card stock
• Copy paper
• Scratchboard
• Sketchbooks
• Tracing paper
• Vellum paper

Computer hardware

• Desktop computer
• Flatbed scanner
• GPS tracking unit
• Laptop computer
• Laser printer
• Point-and-shoot camera and camera tripod
• USB flash drive
• Wacom graphics tablet and stylus

Computer software

All software listed below is open-source and cross-platform unless noted otherwise. ^{P M W} FLOSS Manuals publishes free basic manuals for much of the open-source software.

2D graphics

• Adobe Illustrator ^P
• Adobe InDesign ^P
• Adobe Photoshop ^P
• Alchemy (software) [1]
• Artistic Halftone [2] ^P
• ArtMatic [3] ^{P M}
• Color Oracle [4]
• Corel Draw ^{P W}
• Corel Painter ^P
• Ghostscript
• GIMP / Wikibooks:GIMP
• GIMPshop
• Gnofract 4D [5]
• GraphicConverter ^{P M}
• ImageMagick
• Inkscape / Wikibooks:Inkscape
• Macromedia FreeHand ^P
• Paper.js [6]
• PDFCreator ^W
• PGF/TikZ
• Python Imaging Library
• Scribus
• Scriptable Image Processing System [7] ^{P M}
• Scriptographer [8] ^P
• Sim Daltonism [9] ^{P M}
• TextureMagic [10] ^{P M}
• XaoS

3D graphics

• Blender (software) / Wikibooks:Category:Blender 3D
• Bryce (software) ^P
• Celestia
• DAZ Studio ^P
• E-on Vue ^P
• InVesalius
• MakeHuman
• MayaVi
• Mudbox ^P
• ParaView
• Poser (software) ^P
• Silo (software) ^P
• SketchUp ^P
• Vectorworks ^P
• VTK
• Wings 3D
• ZBrush ^P

Argument mapping and concept mapping

• Araucaria (software)
• Argdown [11]
• Argunet [12]
• bCisive [13] ^P
• Carneades (software) [14]
• CmapTools ^P
• Cohere (software) [15]
• Compendium (software)
• Dia (software)
• Docear [16]
• FreeMind
• Google Drawings ^P
• Graphviz
• Microsoft Visio ^{P W}
• Mindjet (software) ^P
• OmniGraffle ^{P M}
• OVA (software) [17] ^P
• TheBrain ^P
• VUE (Visual Understanding Environment)
• yEd ^P

Calendar and project management

• BusyCal [18] ^{P M}
• Google Calendar ^P
• iCal ^{P M}
• LiquidPlanner ^P
• Merlin (software) [19] ^{P M}
• Microsoft Outlook ^P
• Microsoft Project ^{P W}
• Mozilla Sunbird
• Now Up-to-Date ^P
• ProjectLibre
• Redmine
• Sunrise Calendar ^P
• Yahoo! Calendar ^P

Community building

• All Our Ideas [20]
• Blogger ^P
• CitySourced
• Facebook ^P
• Google Sites ^P
• MapHook ^P
• MindMixer [21] ^P
• Open Town Hall [22] ^P
• PlaceSpeak ^P
• PublicStuff ^P
• Shareabouts [23]
• SurveyMonkey ^P
• Twitter ^P
• Ushahidi

Databases and statistics

• Bento (database) ^{P M}
• FileMaker ^P
• Knitr
• MySQL / Wikibooks:MySQL
• NumPy
• PostGIS
• PostgreSQL
• R (programming language)
• SciPy
• SOFA Statistics
• SQLite
• Sweave
• Viscovery SOMine [24] ^{P W}

Digital audio

• Adobe Audition ^{P M W}
• Audacity (audio editor)
• BIAS Peak ^{P M}
• Clementine (software)
• GarageBand ^{P M}
• Express Scribe [25] ^P
• iTunes ^P
• Juice (aggregator)
• LAME
• Levelator
• Logic Pro ^{P M}
• Pro Tools ^P
• Soundtrack Pro ^{P M}
• Switch (software) [26] ^P
• Transana ^{P M W}
• Transcriva [27] ^{P M}
• X Lossless Decoder [28] ^M

Digital photo

• Adobe Bridge ^P
• ExifRenamer [29] ^{P M}
• ExifTool
• Flickr ^P
• HoudahGeo [30] ^{P M}
• Hugin (software)
• iPhoto ^{P M}
• Panoramio ^P
• Picasa ^P
• Reveal EXIF Editor [31]
• RoboGEO ^{P W}

Digital video and motion graphics

• Adobe After Effects ^P
• Adobe Edge ^P
• Adobe Flash ^P
• Adobe ImageReady ^P
• Adobe Premiere Pro ^P
• Avidemux
• Cinema Tools ^{P M}
• FFmpeg
• Final Cut Pro ^{P M}
• Flip4Mac ^{P M}
• HandBrake
• iDVD ^{P M}
• iMovie ^{P M}
• Jubler [32]
• Motion (software) ^{P M}
• Pencil2D
• Perian ^M
• Processing.js
• QuickTime Player ^P
• Roxio Toast ^{P M}
• Synfig
• Theora
• Toon Boom ^P
• VLC media player

Fonts and font editors

• Adobe FDK
• Font Explorer X [33] ^P
• FontForge
• FontLab ^P
• Fontographer ^P
• Lemkesoft FontBook [34] ^{P M}

Open-source Unicode typefaces

• Chandas (typeface)
• Charis SIL
• DejaVu fonts
• Doulos SIL
• Droid fonts
• Gentium
• Jomolhari (typeface)
• Junicode
• Linux Libertine
• Source Code Pro
• Source Sans Pro

Geographic information systems (GIS) and mapping

• AccessMod [35]
• Bing Maps ^P
• CommonGIS [36] ^P
• CyberTracker
• D3.js
• Esri ArcGIS ^{P W}
• GeoJSON
• GeoCommons [37] ^P
• GeoServer
• Geospatial PDF
• GeoTime ^P
• GDAL
• GISS G.Projector [38]
• Global Mapper
• Google Earth ^P
• Google Map Maker ^P
• Google Maps ^P
• GRASS GIS
• gvSIG
• HealthMap
• HERE Map Creator ^P
• Indiemapper [39] ^P
• Kartograph [40]
• Landsat
• Leafletjs
• MapAList [41]
• MapGuide Open Source
• MapBox TileMill [42]
• MAPublisher [43]
• MapServer
• Marble (software)
• Microsoft Streets & Trips ^{P W}
• Microsoft MapPoint ^{P W}
• MODIS
• NASA World Wind
• Open Data Catalog [44]
• Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeoLive [45]
• OpenJUMP
• OpenLayers
• OpenStreetMap
• OpenWebGlobe
• Palantir Technologies ^P
• QGIS / Quantum GIS
• SaTScan [46]
• Sourcemap [47] ^P
• StoryMap.js [48] ^P
• Timemap.js [49]
• Unfolding Maps [50]
• VirtualGeo [51] ^P
• WikiMapia
• Yahoo! Pipes ^P

Internet

• Adobe Dreamweaver ^P
• FileZilla
• KompoZer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Mozilla Thunderbird
• NetNewsWire ^{P M}
• Safari (web browser) ^P
• SeaMonkey
• Songbird (software) ^P
• Validator S.A.C. [52] ^M
• W3C Markup Validation Service
• Webflow

Content management systems (CMS)

• Alfresco (software)
• Cactus for Mac [53] ^M
• Drupal
• eZ Publish
• Jekyll (software)
• Joomla
• MediaWiki / Wikibooks:MediaWiki
• Movable Type
• Open Atrium [54]
• Plone
• SPIP
• Zope / Wikibooks:Zope

Mozilla Firefox extensions

• Adblock Plus
• DownThemAll!
• Flagfox [55]
• Ghostery
• HTTPS Everywhere
• NoScript
• Video DownloadHelper

Lexicon

• Bing Translator ^P
• Dictionary (software) ^{P M}
• Google Dictionary ^P
• Google Translate ^P
• Nisus Thesaurus [56] ^{P M}
• OpenThesaurus
• Ultralingua ^P
• Urban Dictionary ^P
• WordReference.com ^P

Mobile phone

• Asterisk (software)
• DialMyCalls [57] ^P
• Email2phone [58] ^P
• Freedom Fone [59] ^P
• FrontlineSMS
• GeoChat [60] ^P
• Google Voice ^P
• SMS Matrix [61] ^P
• TextMarks [62] ^P
• VozMob

Office suites

• Apache OpenOffice
• Google Docs ^P
• LibreOffice
• Microsoft Office ^P
• NeoOffice ^{P M}
• Zoho Office Suite ^P

Operating systems

• Darwin (operating system)
• OpenBSD
• Ubuntu (operating system)

OS X utilities

• Fink (software) ^M
• MacPorts ^M
• VMware Fusion ^{P M}
• WordService [63] ^{P M}
• XCode ^{P M}
• XQuartz ^M

OS X preference panes

• Growl (software) ^{M W}
• iStat Menus [64] ^{P M}
• Little Snitch ^{P M}
• Perian ^M
• RCDefaultApp [65] ^{P M}

Personal information management

• Anki (software)
• Deep (software) [66] ^{P M}
• DEVONthink Pro [67] ^{P M}
• DocuWiki
• Gitit (software)
• ikiwiki
• Journler ^M
• Leap (software) [68] ^{P M}
• OmniOutliner ^{P M}
• Scrivener (software) ^P
• TiddlyWiki

Presentation software

• Adobe Acrobat ^P
• Beamer (LaTeX)
• Keynote (presentation software) ^{P M}
• Okular
• Phoenix Slides [69] ^M
• Powerdot (LaTeX)
• Preview (software) ^{P M}
• Skim (software) ^M

Privacy software

• Alkasir ^P
• Enigmail
• Gpg4win ^W
• GPGTools ^M
• Martus (software) [70]
• S/MIME
• Tor (anonymity network) ^P
• Password Safe
• Ultrasurf ^P

Reference management software

• Bebop (software)
• Bibclean [71]
• Biber (LaTeX)
• BibLaTeX (LaTeX) [72]
• Bibsql [73]
• BibDesk ^M
• BibTool [74]
• IN-SPIRE [75] ^{P W}
• JabRef
• Librarian (LaTeX) [76]
• Science of Science Tool (Sci2)
• VOSviewer [77] ^P
• Zotero

Zotero plugins

• Better BibTeX [78]
• Cita
• PubPeer plugin [79]
• Scite.ai plugin [80]
• Zot2Bib [81] ^M
• Zutilo [82]

Text processing and data wrangling

• AppleScript ^{P M}
• AWK / Wikibooks:An Awk Primer
• Bash (Unix shell) / Wikibooks:Bash Shell Scripting
• BBEdit/ TextWrangler ^{P M}
• Bean (software) ^M
• Grep / Wikibooks:Regular expressions
• Groff (software)
• LaTeX / Wikibooks:LaTeX
• LyX
• Markdown
• MultiMarkdown
• Pandiff [83]
• Pandoc
• Perl / Wikibooks:Category:Perl programming language
• Python (programming language) / Wikibooks:Category:Python programming language
• SageMath
• Sed / Wikibooks:Sed
• TeX Live / Wikibooks:TeX
• TeX4ht
• Textutil [84] ^M
• UnicodeChecker [85] ^M
• UnRTF [86]
• XML / Wikibooks:Category:XML

Time-tracking software

• Minuteur [87] ^{P M}

Version control for error logging

• Apache Subversion
• Atlassian SourceTree [88] ^{P M W}
• Git (software) / Wikibooks:Git
• Mercurial

Research websites

• AGRICOLA
• Amazon Watch
• AmphibiaWeb
• AP Images
• Appropedia [89]
• AuthorMapper
• Avibase
• BioOne
• BioStor
• Bioversity International New World Fruits Database [90]
• Centre for Time Use Research [91]
• Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Gold Rush (database) [92]
• Common Names of Insects Database [93]
• Creative Commons-licensed content directories
• Cultural Survival
• DAD-IS
• DataONE
• eBird
• EBSCOhost
• Eco-Index
• EIS Digests [94]
• ELDIS
• Encyclopedia of Life
• EPA EnviroMapper [95]
• ERIC
• FAOSTAT
• FishBase
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Global Health Watch [96]
• Global Invasive Species Information Network
• Global Nonviolent Action Database
• Google Books
• Google Images
• Google Scholar
• HerpMapper
• iNaturalist
• Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network
• International Centre for Underutilised Crops
• International Plant Names Index
• Internet Archive
• Invasive Species Compendium
• IPUMS
• IUCN Red List
• JournalMap [97]
• JSTOR
• Kew Gardens Economic Botany Collection [98]
• Latin American Network Information Center [99]
• LexisNexis
• Library of Congress
• List of GIS data sources
• Lonely Planet
• Materialflows.net [100]
• Michigan Herp Atlas [101]
• Michigan Natural Features Inventory [102]
• Morguefile.com [103]
• NASA STI Program
• National Geospatial Digital Archive
• Natural Standard
• NatureServe
• NewCROP [104]
• OCLC mapFAST [105]
• OCLC OAIster
• OCLC WorldCat
• OpenCourseWare
• Openphoto.net [106]
• OSTI
• Picsearch
• Plants for a Future
• Practical Action Practical Answers [107]
• ProQuest
• PsycINFO
• PubMed
• PubMed Central
• Redalyc
• Rough Guides
• SciELO
• Sea Around Us Project
• SIAMAZONIA [108]
• SpringerLink
• The Field Museum Rapid Inventories, Biological & Social [109]
• The Field Museum Tropical Plant Guides [110]
• The National Map
• The Plant List
• The World Factbook
• TinEye
• TOXMAP
• UN World Water Development Report
• UNdata
• UNESCO Photobank [111]
• United States Board on Geographic Names
• United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
• United States Geological Survey EarthExplorer [112]
• VertNet [113]
• Web of Science
• WHO Global Health Observatory
• Wikipedia
• Wikispecies
• Wikivoyage
• WorldWideScience

Notes