You know what, i just drop my personal list of noteworthy shell-tools here (note directfb2 and twin). And edir, clipboard, pass and portal/croc for the win.

alternatives

• fd: simpler find
• bat: nicer cat
• lsd: ls with NerdFont icons
• broot: smarter tree

GUI alternatives

• draw: mouse drawing on the shell!
• imgfb: Draws a farbfeld or jpeg image to the Linux framebuffer
• baca: TUI e-book reader
• Terminal Image Viewer (tiv): what it says
• FIM: framebuffer image viewer -;derasterize: cli pixel to ANSI converter cli video playing: mpv --gpu-context=drm
• ts-polkitagent: Polkit Agent for the Shell (old)
• fbterm: framebuffer terminal
• twin: Textmode WINdow environment
• directfb2: framebuffer desktop
• csv to ascii art table via python pandas

Task Management:

• dun: note-taking & task manager
• cubby: encrypted note taking to cloud, with markdown
• girok: TUI calendar

Services:

• matrixcli: what it says
• yewtube: Terminal based YouTube player and downloader

File Manager:

• clifm: nice shell file manager with tagging
• nnn: cli fm with split-view file preview
• TUIFI Manager: cli fm with rendered images in 2D layout
• xplr: hackable, minimal, TUI fm

Login Manager:

• CDM: shell login manager with history
• Qingy: directfb login manager

Others:

• buku - shell bookmark-manager - GitHub

ease of use

• edir: rename with text file
• clipboard: shell clipboard manager & more
• portal: cli file transfer agent between computers
• croc: simple file transfer tool via local server, Android Appp too
• transfer.sh: cli file sharing via cloud
• detox: file name cleanup
• ouch: simple de/compressor
• mnamer: intelligent video renamer
• gum: bells and whistles for shell scripters
• pytermgui: bells and whistles for python scripters

If someone has more/better tools, please shout.