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Simplenote for macOS
Simplenote for Mac
Simplenote for macOS is the official native macOS application for the Simplenote service, giving Apple computer users a dedicated environment to write, organize, and sync notes with the same simplicity found on other platforms. Built using macOS frameworks and powered by the Simperium synchronization protocol, it ensures that any text or Markdown notes you create are automatically backed up and kept in sync with Android, iOS, web, and other clients. The app supports fast searching and tagging so users can keep large collections of notes orderly, and has features like history or revision views to recover previous edits. macOS integration means users benefit from keyboard shortcuts, native window management, and system services like Spotlight search to find notes instantly. As a GPL-licensed open-source project, it invites contributions and learning, letting developers tweak UI or add platform-specific enhancements without being locked into a proprietary ecosystem. -
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obsidian.nvim
Obsidian Neovim
obsidian.nvim is a Neovim plugin that integrates with Obsidian, the popular note-taking and knowledge base app. It allows users to manage their Obsidian vaults directly from Neovim, offering markdown editing, backlinking, tag navigation, and link autocompletion features. This plugin bridges the gap between Obsidian’s personal knowledge management and Neovim’s powerful editing capabilities, enabling a seamless, keyboard-driven workflow. -
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GloboNote
Create sticky notes, to-do list, journals & reminders all in one app
GloboNote is a free and easy to use desktop note taking application. It lets you create sticky notes, to-do lists, journals, reminders and other notes in one place. There are no limits to the number of sticky notes you can create. Notes can be organize by groups and search using the search tool. GloboNote can be run in any OS that has Java 8 installed. -
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Hypernomicon
Hypertext-infused philosophy personal database software
Hypernomicon is a personal productivity/database application for researchers that combines structured note-taking, mind-mapping, management of files (e.g., PDFs) and folders, and reference management into an integrated environment that organizes all of the above into semantic networks or hierarchies in terms of debates, positions, arguments, labels, terminology/concepts, and user-defined keywords by means of database relations and automatically generated hyperlinks (hence ‘Hyper’ in the name). Hypernomicon keeps track of all these things in a highly structured, thoroughly indexed and user friendly relational database, automatically generates semantic hyperlinks between all of them, and presents this information in many different forms so that you are constantly informed of ways all of your information is related that you had not realized. -
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Omni-Notes
Free and powerful note-taking application
Omni-Notes is a powerful open-source note-taking application for Android designed to be both smart and simple. It has a clean and simple Material Design interface and is packed with plenty of smart features. These include image, audio and generic file attachment, a To-do list, Google Now integration, numerous widgets and so much more. Omni-Notes takes note-taking to a whole new level, making it more convenient and integrated. It's an ideal note-taking application particularly for old Android phones without such apps, giving users an updated look and experience when taking down notes. -
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Poznote
Poznote is a personal note-taking and documentation platform
Poznote is an open-source, self-hosted note-taking and personal knowledge management platform that combines modern editing features with robust organizational tools to help users capture, structure, and retrieve information efficiently. It supports rich text and Markdown editing alongside outline-style notes, attachments, workspaces, folders, and tags, making it suitable for everything from quick daily journaling to long-term documentation projects. Poznote includes a RESTful API that enables programmatic access and integration with other tools, and it even offers an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to let AI assistants interact with your notes via natural language commands. In addition to basic note creation and editing, the platform features powerful full-text search, public sharing links, backups and exports, trash management, and multi-user support with profiles isolated per user, giving individuals and teams control over their content. -
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Simplenote for Android
Simplenote for Android
Simplenote for Android is the open-source Android client for Simplenote, a lightweight, fast, and free note-taking app that syncs text notes, to-dos, and ideas across all devices automatically. The Android version provides a clean and minimalist interface optimized for phones and tablets where users can quickly jot down thoughts, organize them with searchable tags, and have everything backed up and synchronized via the Simplenote service. Users can also create checklists, pin important notes for quick access, and instantly find content using powerful keyword search tools. The app supports Markdown formatting, letting users add structured text like headers, lists, and links with easy previewing. Because it ties into the same Simplenote account used on iOS, macOS, web, or desktop apps, content stays consistent and accessible regardless of the platform you use. -
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GitJournal
Mobile first Note Taking integrated with Git
GitJournal is a note taking app focused on privacy and data portability. It stores all its notes in a standardized Markdown + YAML header format (optional). The notes are stored in a Git Repo of your choice - GitHub / Gitlab / Custom-provider. This means you can easily self host or host your notes in one of the many Git providers. GitJournal uses standard SSH, and can therefore work with any Git Hosting Provider. GitJournal aims to be extremely configurable and work with your favorite apps. The idea is to not build another silo and instead integrate it into your existing workflow. No two people are the same. Depending on the task and the person, your Notes may need to be visualized differently. All your notes are stored in Markdown. However you can edit the notes in many different ways depending on the task. Soon you'll even be able to visualize yours Notes in a Graph. GitJournal will always be completely Open Source. -
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Simple Notes
A simple textfield for adding quick notes without ads
If you need to take a quick note to make a shopping list, a reminder for an address, or a startup idea, then look no further as this is the simple organizer tool you've been looking for Simple Notes. To-do list organizer and planner, the best note-taking apps, and sticky notes are free for Android mobile phones. No complicated setup steps are needed, just tap the screen and type in what you came for and create notes, quick lists, checklists, or backup for any idea. With your simple personal notebook, you can remember anything fast. A shopping list for groceries, a to-do list for your daily agenda, and easier note-taking to make setting up meetings a walk in the park. Simple notes planner is a quick, simple-to-use organizer and remarkable note-taking colorful widget and it will serve as an invaluable tool helping you to remember necessary pieces of information or shopping lists in the mall. -
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Simplenote for iOS
Simplenote for iPhone and iPad
Simplenote for iOS is the official iPhone and iPad client for the cross-platform Simplenote note-taking ecosystem, providing iOS users with a clean, responsive interface to create, edit, and manage plain-text notes. It syncs seamlessly with Simplenote’s cloud infrastructure so that notes created on a phone instantly appear on web, Android, macOS, or desktop apps without manual steps. On iOS, users can search quickly across all notes, organize content with tags, and use native iOS behaviors such as swipe gestures, system share sheets, and keyboard shortcuts for efficient workflow. With Markdown support, notes can include basic formatting and previewing, letting writers structure content easily without clutter. The repository includes setup guidance for building and running the app with proper credentials for the syncing service, showing that the codebase gives contributors a practical foundation for experimenting or extending capabilities. -
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Lifeograph
Cross-platform, parametric note-taking application
Lifeograph combines powerful features with a clean and thoughtfully designed interface. Your data stays on your device, and built-in encryption keeps privacy at the core. With WYSIWYG editing, your entries always appear in their final form. Integrated data extraction tools transform your journal entries into dynamic tables and charts. -
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Dnote
A simple command line notebook
Dnote is a personal knowledge management tool focused on easily capturing, organizing, and retrieving technical notes such as code snippets, terminal commands, and short documentation, all while keeping content accessible and searchable. It is designed around fast, distraction-free workflows that let users jot down notes quickly from the terminal or a web interface, ensuring that insights and solutions are captured at the moment they occur. With structured tagging and hierarchical organization, Dnote encourages users to categorize entries in ways that align with their own thinking rather than forcing a rigid notebook structure. Its search is optimized to handle large collections of notes, allowing users to find relevant information instantly, which makes it especially helpful for developers, engineers, and power users who accumulate practical knowledge over time. -
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MindZJ
An open-source, offline note-taking app with native AI & CLI
MindZJ is a knowledge management and idea organization tool designed to help users structure, connect, and visualize information in a meaningful way. It focuses on enabling users to create and manage interconnected notes, forming a network of ideas that can evolve over time. The system provides tools for organizing thoughts, tracking relationships between concepts, and building a personal knowledge base. It is particularly useful for research, learning, and creative workflows where capturing and linking ideas is essential. The platform emphasizes simplicity and clarity, offering a clean interface that minimizes distractions while supporting complex knowledge structures. It also supports extensibility, allowing users to adapt the system to their specific needs and workflows. Overall, mindzj serves as a flexible environment for building and navigating structured knowledge systems. -
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Nextcloud Notes for Android
Android client for Nextcloud Notes app
Nextcloud Notes Android is the official mobile client that enables users to create, edit, and manage notes stored on a Nextcloud server, making it possible to access personal notes securely from anywhere. Designed to integrate with Nextcloud’s server-side Notes app, this Android application supports multiple accounts, allowing users to operate against different servers or accounts within a single interface. It provides a full suite of note management tools including creation, editing, search, sharing, and deletion of notes, along with support for rendering markdown content so that formatted text and lists are displayed accurately. Additional conveniences like toggling checkboxes in view mode, marking favorites, bulk delete operations, and widgets for home screens make it a versatile companion for productivity on the go. The app also embraces modern UI features like dark mode and localized language support, enhancing usability across devices and regions. -
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Pragma-git
Pragma-git is a friendly pragmatic git control app
Pragma-git is a friendly pragmatic git control app, fully compatible with other git client software. Easy overview of current repository, branch and number of changed files. Dash-board small screen estate fits on screen with other software. Drag-and-drop to create or add repository. Note-taking, wysiwyg or markdown, with todo lists, etc. Auto-push to the remote repository (can be disabled in settings) Auto-fetch, and indication if the pull is possible. Standard git features, such as branch, merge, push, pull, tag, stash. History browser, builtin pragma-merge diff and merge tool (external tool may be used instead) Settings, handling repository, branches, remotes, cloning as well as software preferences. Fully git compatible, try it, and use together with other clients. Aiming to be the opposite to how many beginners perceive git. -
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gitnote
A modern note taking app based on GIT
A modern note-taking app based on GIT that does not require a local GIT environment. Supports thinking brain maps, helping us to visualize things in a visual way, such as recording and inspiring ideas. It supports multiple export methods. Grapheditor is diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER, and network diagrams. Using markdown, you can easily create a web version of the presentation and support export. Supports multiple images hosting uploads, automatically inserts into the notes, and provides API to freely customize your own image hosting. Supports multiple images hosting uploads. Supports markdown writing app for presentations. Supports diagram editor. Supports thinking brain map. Git is the world's most advanced distributed version control system. GitNote has all the features of Git and does not need to rely on the local GIT environment. -
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nb
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving
nb is a powerful, flexible, and self-contained note-taking and knowledge management application that empowers users to write, organize, search, and archive plain-text notes, bookmarks, and tasks from the command line or through a local web server. Designed to be portable and vendor-independent, it stores all content as plain text files with optional encryption, which means notes can be versioned, diffed, and synced with Git just like code, giving users fine-grained control over their personal information. The tool supports tagging, linking with wiki-style references, filtering, pinned items, and full-text search, making it easy to build a structured knowledge base or Zettelkasten system that grows over time. Users can bookmark web pages and have content auto-cleaned and saved alongside their notes, which gives nb a combined role as both a personal wiki and a bookmarks manager, organized through tags and folders. -
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Notepad3
Light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting
Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. Notepad3 is an excellent replacement for the default Windows text editor. Notepad3 offers many extra features over Notepad. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most programming jobs. -
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Notepad X is an alternative open source text editor for Microsoft Windows, with a lot of customization options created to help users managing text documents featuring tab navigation.
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Docear
An Academic Literature Suite
Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley. -
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FreeplaneGTD+
Freeplane add-on for task management and memo taking
Freeplane is a widely used mind mapping tool. GTD is a time management methodology by David Allen. Freeplane GTD is an addon, that can collect tasks specified in a mindmap, thus allowing the users of Freeplane to use the concepts of GTD in their mind -
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BoolHub
A fully functional personal information management software.
[Native application]: Developed with QT, pure native application, faster response; Cloud synchronization: Data is recorded in the cloud, and the data is no longer lost. Data synchronization is unlimited, everything is in your control; [Rich note types]: Support rich text, Markdown, code, tables, drawings, flowcharts and other note formats; [Manage your customers]: A customer relationship management system that supports team collaboration to grasp every lead and every customer; [Manage daily affairs]: Manage your affairs in an orderly manner through the feature-rich to-do list view; [Free without function limit]: There is no limit to the software functions, free to use, we are just to make a friend; [Different moods and different themes]: Notes and to-do lists, support a variety of exquisite themes, do whatever you want, change it if you want; [More application scenarios]: Memo view, timeline view, passwordbook view, statistics view to meet your different needs. -
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Piggydb
Piggydb helps you have more fun with knowledge creation.
Piggydb is a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input. You can begin with using it as a flexible outliner, diary or notebook, and as your database grows, Piggydb helps you to shape or elaborate your own knowledge. Piggydb is a Web application provided as a self-contained package that contains a Web server and database engine. With Piggydb, you can create highly structured content by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified using hierarchical tags. -
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Notes Keeper
A program for saving and organizing notes
Notes Keeper 5.2.3.0 Don't you like your notes to be saved in the clouds, where you can't control. Do you like to have all your notes with you. Then you need Notes Keeper. A program for saving and organizing notes Notes Keeper will let you create notes, format them in all ways. You can add files, images, text and very basic tables to the notes. Change sentences/words cases and lock them from other people. Organize your notes with folders and tree. After you finish export your note(s) to a text file or rtf file, print it from your printer, or send it as email or attachment to you family or friends. Its free. Not like any other note taking software. feel free to report any bugs .NET 4.6 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Update 3 runtime are needed to run Notes Keeper -
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UPDATE 2024: Get a new version here: https://github.com/ivoras/EncryptedNotepad2 "Encrypted Notepad" does only one thing, but aims to do it perfectly - a Notepad-like simple text editor where files are saved (and later loaded) encrypted with industrial strength algorithms. Available both for the desktop (as a Java application) and on Android. Unencrypted data is never stored on-disk. Source is released (on SourceForge) under the BSD license.
