Page 2 | Best Note-Taking Apps for Mac of 2026

Agenda

Agenda is a date-focused note-taking app for both planning and documenting your projects. From business professionals and technical users to students and artists, Agenda is for anyone wanting well-organized and easily navigable notes that help drive your projects forward. Agenda’s unique approach of organizing notes into a timeline helps to drive your projects forward. While other apps focus specifically on the past, present, or future, Agenda is the only note-taking app that tracks them all at once, giving you the complete picture. Take notes for what is currently on your agenda, while you prepare another for an upcoming meeting. Either by typing them or using the Apple Pencil on your iPad, your pick. Use older notes as breadcrumbs to remind yourself why you took the actions you did. You can attach dates to individual notes, and even link them to events in your calendar. But you can also put them “On the Agenda”. Notes that are On the Agenda are given special status.

Starting Price: Free

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TagSpaces

TagSpaces UG

TagSpaces is privacy aware, cross-platform file browser with note-taking capabilities. It helps you organize your files and folders with tags and colors. Free downloads are available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. With the built-in advanced markdown editor, you can create notes that can include tables, todo-lists, math formulas, or diagrams. TagSpaces can connect to any folder on your hard drive and provide a convenient way to browse its content. You have the ability to add labels called tags to any file or folder. Using tags along the folder hierarchy allows you to have cross-references in the folders. The built-in search allows you to find files with any combination of tags. On top of that in the Pro version, you can add descriptions and geo-tags to files and folders. The Pro version gives you the ability to turn every folder to a Kanban board, which can be useful in many ways. With the TagSpaces Web Clipper, you can collect web pages and bookmarks from the Web.

Starting Price: $39 per year

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Reflect

Reflect is a note-taking app that helps you think better by mirroring the way your brain works. It prioritizes frictionless thought capture and recall, and encrypts your notes to make them secure. Reflect syncs all of your notes in real-time across your devices, and allows you to capture snippets from your browser or Kindle. It also connects to all of your calendars so that you never miss a meeting or agenda again. Think of the convenience of Apple Notes with 100x the power.

Starting Price: $10/month

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Zinnia

Pixite

Zinnia is the most fun and creative way to keep a digital journal and planner. Enjoy calendars, trackers, stickers, washi, and more, with new content added every month. Mindfulness has never been easier. Get into the healthy habit of recording your day, goals, priorities, and special moments. Daily reminders will keep you in the habit and on the path toward a more mindful and organized self. A variety of fun-but-practical journaling templates provide a colorful structure: habit trackers, to-do lists, weekly logs, and more. With Zinnia for Mac, enjoy big screen creation, comfortable keyboard typing, and easy referencing of external browsers to copy-paste photos, hyperlinks, and more! Create on your computer and sync across iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) for an unparalleled workflow. Zinnia is the most expressive way to document the things that matter most to you. Keep a diary, and create a collage or scrapbook.

Starting Price: $9.99 per month

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Scrintal

Scrintal is a visual note-taking and mind-mapping tool that helps people clearly think and write creatively. It is an online whiteboard where you can visually organize, group, and connect your thoughts. So you can see both the high-level overview and details of your notes at a glance in one place. As opposed to other mind maps, you can write and add as many images or media in Scrintal as you want and connect each piece via backlinks. Scrintal is a visual alternative to managing your personal knowledge management.

Starting Price: $5/month/user

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NoteDex

NoteDex creates high quality previews of each card so that you don't have search through tons of information when trying find the one needed! Card Stacks make it easy to capture and organize your notes into different projects or classes. With Best-in-Class features like pen, text and image editing you can make and print high quality 3 x 5 format index cards look better than ever before. Change colors of a note card with just one click for more engaging cards that stand out. Introducing NoteDex, the ultimate mobile app for all your note-taking and organization needs. With a powerful set of features, NoteDex is the perfect solution for anyone who wants to streamline their note-taking process and be more productive. Whether you're a visual thinker, student, writer, project manager, or just someone who wants to keep their ideas organized, NoteDex has everything you need to get the job done.

Starting Price: $2.99 per month

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SNote

SNote is the privacy focused workspace designed for exceptional productivity and collaboration. Privacy without Compromises State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption keeps your notes and files secure. We can't read your notes or access to your files, and no one else can either. Privacy isn’t an optional mode - it’s just the way that SNote works. Every note, every file, every time. Collaborate Without Insecurity Privately collaborate with only the people you want on Projects, To-Dos, Tasks and Shared Files. All with an unexpected focus on privacy, combined with all of the features you expect. All with a realtime end-to-end encryption. We call it eye-to-eye. Infinitely Configurable Data Smart, encrypted, and customizable data tables offer endless possibilities for efficient and secure work processes. Using data tables, you and your team can easily tailor tables to your specific needs while ensuring sensitive information remains protected.

Starting Price: $8

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Voicenotes

Voicenotes is the easiest and most intuitive way to capture your thoughts and bring them to life. Instead of typing or jotting down notes, just speak your mind. Our app allows you to record your ideas, transcribe them automatically, and use them to create anything from a detailed blog post to a quick tweet. Plus, with our innovative “ask your AI” feature, you can interact with your notes to ask questions and get reminders, ensuring you never forget or miss important details. Record new ideas, family moments, meetings, podcast takeaways, anything. Ask your AI to review past notes or brainstorm new ideas, it has a perfect memory. Create a summary, to-do list, blog post, and more using your notes. Intelligent suggestions, 50+ languages, and a zillion small things. Available on the web, iOS, Android, and soon on smartwatches. Commitment to privacy, longevity, and beauty. Go ahead, and record a quick note; there's no sign-up required.

Starting Price: Free

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Narafy

Whether you’re looking for a quick answer to a question that’s buried in your notes or want to find that one note but are struggling to think where you put it, Narafy helps you find what you're looking for. Automate your workflow, so you can focus on what matters. Stacks are a fresh way of working. By combining tags together, you can easily create different stacks of notes. Have multiple stacks on the go, create new combinations, and as your notes grow, grow your tags too. Get it straight from the source with Narafy’s web clipper. Your notes are stored on your device, making sure you always have access to your notes, even without an internet connection. Our data syncing instantly and securely syncs your notes to the cloud, making them available across your devices. We're also thoughtfully integrating AI capabilities in a targeted way based on each use case, rather than just layering AI on top of standard note-taking features.

Starting Price: $5 per month

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Brite

Your All-in-One Planner App: Tasks, Calendar, Habits & More for Effortless Productivity. Brite combines all essentials in one app. Plan, check, and streamline effortlessly. Swap app clutter for simple, organized brilliance with Brite! View your whole week. All tasks, projects, events, and docs in one spot. Ditch multiple calendar apps for seamless, stress-free planning. Quickly craft to-do's, manage tags, and prioritize with Brite. Smart alerts keep you on track. Manage projects using Brite: ideal for personal and work goals. Utilize our kanban board, collaboration tools, and real-time goal tracking. Craft notes and docs with Brite's intuitive editor. Share ideas on iPad using slash commands and collaboration tools. Manage schedules with Brite's calendar. Get daily to monthly views, set reminders, and sync with Google, Outlook, and Apple for seamless planning.

Starting Price: $3.29 per month

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Heptabase

Heptabase empowers you to visually make sense of your learning, research, and projects. To truly make sense of what you've learned, visualize your notes with whiteboards, sections, and mindmaps. Bring all your highlights, annotations, PDFs, journals, and research notes together to discover new insights. Manage complex projects with clarity and flexibility by using powerful tags and properties. And of course, full offline access with blazing-fast speed. Sync and access your notes across unlimited desktop devices, mobile devices, and web browsers. Access all notes and files without an internet connection. Search, load, and edit your notes with blazing-fast speed. Heptabase is a visual note-taking software specifically designed to help you learn and research complex topics, establishing a deep understanding of things you care about. The design of Heptabase focuses on helping you better "understand the topics you care about," rather than simply "taking more notes."

Starting Price: $8.99 per month

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Amplenote

Alloy.dev

Amplenote is a productivity app that combines note-taking, task management, and calendar planning in one platform. It helps individuals and teams capture ideas, organize them, and turn them into actionable plans. Users can take notes with rich formatting, tags, and backlinks to connect ideas like a personal wiki. Task management is built-in, with a unique Task Score system that prioritizes based on urgency and importance. The calendar view integrates with Google Calendar to keep everything in sync. Available on web, iOS, Android, and desktop, Amplenote works offline and offers end-to-end encryption for security. It’s ideal for students, professionals, and anyone looking to boost productivity.

Starting Price: $5.84/month/user

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NoteX

Sota Labs

NoteX is a modern note-taking and productivity application designed to help individuals and teams organize their thoughts, tasks, and projects in one easy-to-use platform. Built with a clean, user-friendly interface, Notex allows users to create, edit, and categorize notes quickly, making it simple to capture ideas, manage to-do lists, and store important information in a structured way. Notes can be organized using tags, folders, and color codes, giving users full control over how their content is displayed and accessed. Whether used for personal planning, professional collaboration, or creative brainstorming, Notex offers flexible tools to meet diverse needs. Its cloud-based system ensures that all notes are securely stored and synchronized across devices, so users can access their information anytime, anywhere. Notex also supports collaborative features, allowing teams to share notes, comment, and work together on shared projects in real-time.

Starting Price: Free

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Irma AI

Get Irma AI – Effortless and discreet meeting notes Irma is the easiest AI meeting assistant for individuals who want to automatically capture meeting notes. Unlike traditional tools that join your meetings as bots or require calendar access, Irma works quietly in the background — no invites, no disruptions. Whether you're using Zoom, Teams, Google Meet or something else entirely, Irma supports all meeting platforms. It records audio directly from your computer (and microphone), meaning it works with private accounts and even in confidential or sensitive conversations where bots aren’t welcome. No bots. No calendar connections. No platform limits. Just open Irma on your Mac or Windows desktop, and it’s ready to go.

Starting Price: $14/month

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Coconote

Coconote is an AI note-taking app that turns lectures, meetings, videos, and documents into organized notes, transcripts, quizzes, flashcards, and even AI chat, supporting over 100 languages. You can record or upload audio, video, documents, YouTube links, and more; Coconote then instantly transcribes and structures your content into clear notes and summaries. It offers features like quiz and flashcard generation, AI chat (“ask your notes anything”), multi-device sync, and support for uploads and recordings across many media types. The app is designed to help users capture, review, and study smarter, without manual transcription or note writing. On mobile, it can be used to record lectures and generate study materials on the go. It aims to free users from taking notes manually by automating the entire process, producing polished educational content from raw inputs.

Starting Price: Free

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CollaNote

CollaNote is a versatile note-taking and PDF markup app available for iPad, iPhone, and Mac that blends handwriting, sketching, collaboration, and AI tools in one environment. You can choose from over 25 pens and brushes, stabilize handwriting for smoother writing, and use infinite paper with customizable templates. CollaNote supports importing and annotating PDFs, slides, images, and documents, exporting notes to PDF, and backing up via iCloud for seamless syncing. It includes translation tools (for over 90 languages), flashcard creation with media, real-time collaboration across users, and password-protected notes. AI-powered features include a built-in AI calculator for handwritten notes, smart drawing tools (auto shapes), AI sticker generation, and writing assistance. The app also supports audio recording synchronized with handwriting, enabling you to replay lectures or meeting moments in context.

Starting Price: Free

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Freenotes

Freenotes offers a digital note-taking experience that blends the feel of writing on paper with powerful AI enhancements. You get realistic pen strokes that mimic lifelike handwriting as you sketch or take notes, along with tools like handwriting-to-text conversion, stickers, and various brush styles. Your notes sync via iCloud and multi-cloud backups. Freenotes supports PDF annotation, letting you mark up, highlight, and translate text directly in your documents; you can also insert hyperlinks to other pages or external web content. It enables picture-in-picture video mode and split-screen support so you can take notes while watching course videos or lectures. With its built-in AI assistant, you can take a screenshot or upload a document and receive instant answers or content summaries. To stay organized, notes can be grouped into folders, and a quick search lets you locate what you need fast.

Starting Price: Free

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Noteful

Noteful is a digital note-taking and annotation app optimized for handwriting on iOS devices that blends fluid pen input with powerful document tools. You can write naturally using Apple Pencil or touch input; its custom ink engine records strokes as scalable vector ink, and you can switch between three brushes (ballpoint, fountain, highlighter), sizes, and colors. Beyond handwriting, Noteful supports importing PDFs and Office documents, annotating with typed text, images, and shapes, and layering multiple paper templates within a single notebook. Notes can be organized flexibly via hashtag tagging (including nested tags), rather than rigid folder structures, and you can browse content by tags or pin important pages. It offers a layer system so you can annotate without altering base content, hiding or reordering layers as needed. Editing tools include a precise eraser, lasso selection for moving or resizing content, unlimited undo/redo, and split-view multitasking.

Starting Price: Free

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Ulysses

The Ultimate Writing App for Mac, iPad and iPhone. A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export options make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds. Many writers praise the way Ulysses encourages immersion with the text, and testify how using it has considerably increased their productivity. Although it’s a fully-fledged writing tool, Ulysses manages to stay completely out of your way – and can therefore rival any distraction-free writing app. Ulysses’ unified library holds everything you’ll ever write, and is equipped for managing writing projects of all sizes and ambitions. Be it love letters, simple notes, daily blog posts or the Great American Novel – with Ulysses, your writing is in the best of hands. Thus, you can focus on getting the words down. On the sofa, at a coffee shop, or while waiting for the bus: Work wherever you are, and whenever inspiration hits.

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VoodooPad

VoodooPad is a place to write down your notes and thoughts. Ideas, images, lists, passwords, your mom's apple pie recipe. Include anything you need to keep track of and organize, and VoodooPad will grow with you without getting in the way. Drag and drop folders, PDFs, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad, and they will link up just like on the web. And with powerful search, nothing will be lost or out of reach. Organize your shopping, travel, and home repair by importing coupons, important receipts, & travel documents into VoodooPad. Link to favorite items, preferred stores, hotels, rental companies, and other businesses. Create lists detailing your plans! Keep your research organized and logical by taking advantage of VoodooPad's wiki links, collections, tags, aliases, and powerful search. Import research articles, class notes, and link to websites. Merge and split your information as it grows!

Starting Price: $24.99 one-time payment

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NoteLedge

Kdan Mobile

NoteLedge is a digital notebook for designers and content creators to capture inspiration, make mood boards, and accelerate your creative process. Capture ideas and get creative in your unique style. Watch this video and learn how to bring ideas to life with NoteLedge. NoteLedge comes with powerful multimedia tools for you to capture inspiration anywhere. Discover and save ideas from Pinterest and websites. Take notes and add annotations to highlight what matters most. Organize everything and create mood boards to visualize your thoughts. NoteLedge's flexible workspace allows you to arrange content with layers get creative with your projects. Follow your thoughts and start your own creation! Make beautiful sketches and drawing with a variety of brushes made for designers. Play around photos and stickers to create collages or artworks. Export notes to PDFs with multimedia content embedded. Present your work to clients in slideshow or share ideas with teammates.

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WizNote

Leave brain for thinking, let WizNote to remember. Webpage collected, full text search, folders and markdown. Get the Docker image of WizNote Server, for free! Clip webpage, and blog, import variable files, conquer the fragmentation. Checklist, handwriting, photos, voices, attachments, more than just text. Light editing tool, markdown supported, upload data to the server. Historical version, once saved, permanently saved. Groups, folders and tags. Get data organized, full-text search, shortcut of notes. Locate folders and notes, create and collaborate, boost your work. Create shared workplace, connect people with comments. Improve work by jointly editing, and move work forward. Keep work organized, stay in same version, same pace. Get rid of repetition and work better together. Hosted on your own infrastructure, scaled to your needs. Get WizNote on mobile, tablet and computer.

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Cling

Simplify your teamwork - Content, organization, and teamwork in one app. Work together and don't stress yourself. Cling offers a new approach to teamwork. Instead of using various tools, complex workflows, and hustling communication, Cling allows you to work stress-free and harmonically together. An appealing content and task structure and a consistent version history ensure that every team member stays informed and integrated at all times. At Cling, the focus is on the team, but not on the technology. Instead of many tools, complex workflows and rushed communication, Cling is about trouble-free work. Task planning, processing and coordination can all be done in Cling. Now, teamwork is really fun.

Starting Price: €5 per user per month

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Stashpad

Stashpad is a note-taking app crafted specifically for technically-minded individuals. But, it’s also suitable for 'brain-dumpers' too. That's anyone in need of a seamless way to store their unfiltered, ad-hoc, stream-of-consciousness thoughts. Drawing inspiration from the experience of DMing yourself in Slack, Stashpad is here to replace Apple Notes, sticky notes, and other makeshift solutions, all while keeping you impeccably organized. Features: - Easily compartmentalise 'raw' thoughts - Clean, intuitive, DM-style interface - Markdown support - Intuitive keybindings (all customizable) - Syntax highlighting.

Starting Price: $10/month

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AudioNotes

AI note taking app that transforms voice recordings, text, images, audio files and videos into clear, summarized notes for meetings, lectures, journals, and more. Capture and turn your voice recordings, text notes, images, audio files, and YouTube videos into perfect notes for meetings, journals, lectures, emails, and more! From busy professionals to creative writers, students to entrepreneurs, lawyers to content creators, Audionotes is the only note-taking tool and AI assistant you’ll ever need. Transform how you work by connecting Audionotes to WhatsApp for instant transcription, Notion for organized knowledge, and Zapier for unlimited automation

Starting Price: $9 per 100 voice notes

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Anytype

Any Association

Anytype is a no-code, all-in-one app that respects user privacy and data ownership. Anyone can use Anytype to build a space - a safe place for your notes, documents, tasks, project planners, databases, and more. Anytype uses an object-oriented approach towards data management, wherein any unit of data can be linked to any other unit in a graph format. Our community loves us for the elegant interface and focus on data sovereignty. The software ensures full encryption of data and does not rely on a central server. It provides an option for peer-to-peer direct data transfer, helping users exchange data without exposing it to intermediaries. The software uses local memory to store data so the users can use it without any upload limits.

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Taped

Simply speak or write, and let the AI transcribe, clean up, and structure your thoughts, transforming them into reality. Speak your thoughts, ideas, or anything else, don't stress about pauses or mistakes, just talk naturally. With the latest AI technologies, Taped will summarize your notes into structured text notes in a style and length of your choice. Once your note is ready, you can easily customize it to your preferences. Add tags to organize your notes, modify the style, or even edit the transcript.

Starting Price: $59 per year

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PeekNote

Boost productivity with PeekNote – a lightweight, always-on-top app for quick copying, pasting, and organizing text, code, notes. Perfect for developers and multitaskers! PeekNote is a sleek, always-on-top note-taking app for macOS, designed to streamline your workflow. Perfect for copying code snippets, saving notes, or organizing tasks, PeekNote keeps your content easily accessible. Key Features: - Always on Top: Stays above all windows for quick access. - Clipboard Powerhouse: Instantly copy and paste text, code, or notes. - Customizable Tabs: Organize with color-coded tabs. - Quick Text Blocks: Add and edit snippets with color-coded borders. Ideal for developers, writers, and multitaskers, PeekNote is your ultimate productivity tool. Download now and stay organized!

Starting Price: $1.99

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Metanotes AI

Metanotes AI is built to help teams capture, organize, and act on meeting insights effortlessly. Trusted by professionals across industries, it transforms routine conversations into meaningful outcomes by streamlining meetings, enhancing collaboration & turning every discussion into clear, actionable tasks. With AI-powered transcription, intelligent summarization, and automatic task extraction, Metanotes AI ensures no important detail is ever overlooked. Teams can focus on what truly matters while staying aligned, productive, and accountable. Beyond just notes, it provides speaker identification, editable summaries, easy sharing, and integrations with popular tools like Slack, Jira, and Asana, ensuring that insights seamlessly move into action. By combining accuracy, speed, and usability, Metanotes AI doesn’t just record meetings , it makes them more effective. Whether it’s a small team stand-up or a company-wide strategy session, Metanotes AI empowers organizations to save time.

Starting Price: $20/month

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TheBrain

TheBrain Technologies

Where can you really go on your computer today to hash out a new idea, current event, or expand your plans in a meaningful way? TheBrain lets you digitize your mind so you can literally see your thinking and refine your ideas. Each of your Thoughts comes to life on-screen with connections to other related Thoughts, creating a context for thinking and action. Your Brain can store an unlimited amount of all kinds of information. Write notes for all your ideas. Save files, web pages, images and even emails into TheBrain for instant access. Adding things is as simple as drag and drop. Activate any idea or file in seconds. TheBrain not only brings up the right idea but lets you see how it relates to everything else… so you are prepared for anything. This means you can shift contexts quickly and get an immediate visual briefing by viewing connected topics.

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Best Note-Taking Apps for Mac - Page 2

Compare the Top Note-Taking Apps for Mac as of January 2026 - Page 2

Agenda

TagSpaces

Reflect

Zinnia

Scrintal

NoteDex

SNote

Voicenotes

Narafy

Brite

Heptabase

Amplenote

NoteX

Irma AI

Coconote

CollaNote

Freenotes

Noteful

Ulysses

VoodooPad

NoteLedge

WizNote

Cling

Stashpad

AudioNotes

Anytype

Taped

PeekNote

Metanotes AI

TheBrain

Best Note-Taking Apps for Mac - Page 2

Compare the Top Note-Taking Apps for Mac as of January 2026 - Page 2

Agenda

TagSpaces

Reflect

Zinnia

Scrintal

NoteDex

SNote

Voicenotes

Narafy

Brite

Heptabase

Amplenote

NoteX

Irma AI

Coconote

CollaNote

Freenotes

Noteful

Ulysses

VoodooPad

NoteLedge

WizNote

Cling

Stashpad

AudioNotes

Anytype

Taped

PeekNote

Metanotes AI

TheBrain

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