About Lipi . I thought I should give it a try after all. (even though its repo hasn’t been updated in like 8 months).
So I installed Java 8 on Ubuntu 16.04.
Downloaded Lipi 0.5.3b.jar and gave it permission to execute.
Double-clicked it.
I saw a Welcome to Lipi screen
Clicked open Open Old Blog (that’s Open Hugo Site in Lipi’s interface).
And that was it…
It crashed and burned faster than I can say sayonara.
Ahem…
Today I had 2 frontend tools removed from the official Hugo Docs. 3 is perhaps too many.
And I definitely don’t want to acquire a Hugo Frontend Slayer reputation, or something. 
So I leave Lipi for someone else to test and hopefully run.
Maybe @digitalcraftsman (since he manages the docs) should take a look and see if Lipi deserves to be in the Frontend Tools Section of the Docs after all.
So that leaves only 2 more frontend tools in the Docs.
I can say that Caddy deserves to be in the Docs. It may be slightly limited but at least it WORKS.
Can’t vouch about the frontend that works with Evernote though (and I don’t plan to test it, since I’m not an Evernote user).