Open Source Note-Taking Apps
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A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.
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Notes
Note taking application, write down your thoughts.
Notes is an open source, cross-platform note-taking application. Write down your thoughts with ease, and always have them with you with this simple, streamlined app. -
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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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Notable
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
Notes are written in Markdown, plus you can write KaTeX expressions, Mermaid diagrams and more, check out our Markdown cheatsheet. Notable provides a very powerful Markdown editor, it's the same one VS Code uses in fact, so features like multi-cursors, a minimap and best-in-class syntax highlighting are built-in. Notes and attachments are simply stored on your disk, this is extremely portable and powerful: you could edit your notes via a third-party editor on mobile, have them synchronized via Dropbox, use Git, run a regex-based search and replace etc. A dark theme is also available. In the future support for custom themes will be added as well. Zen mode provides a minimalistic editing and reading experience, hiding everything that's not necessary. Notable is also keyboard friendly, has a quick open window, and we'll soon add a command palette too, so you won't have to click any buttons if you don't want to. -
No-code email and landing page creationBuilt for speed and collaboration, Knak streamlines campaign production with modular templates, real-time editing, simple collaboration, and seamless integrations with leading MAPs like Adobe Marketo Engage, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Oracle Eloqua, and more. Whether you're supporting global teams or launching fast-turn campaigns, Knak helps you go from brief to build in minutes—not weeks. Say goodbye to bottlenecks and hello to marketing agility.
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Laverna
JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor
Laverna has a simple and robust markdown editor, which can help you write faster than ever before with our live markdown preview. The editor can be switched to distraction free mode where you can focus solely on writing notes. Make your notes available on any device with your Dropbox & RemoteStorage account. You can make your notes available only to you by enabling encryption. Keep simple to do lists organized in notes and notebooks. You can manage your notes without ever lifting your hands from your keyboard. Keep snippets of code to have access to them anytime and anywhere. Do you prefer to stay anonymous? You do not need to go through registration process to start using Laverna. You can export your notes from Laverna and import them back anytime. You are not tied to using it forever. Every line of code can be reviewed on GitHub and is available under MPL-2.0 license. -
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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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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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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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Stupid Notepad
The Simplest Notepad Ever
Stupid Notepad - The Simplest Notepad Ever! It's simply impossible to come up with something simpler. The program allows you to edit text files. You enter the path to the file and can view and edit it, as well as create new files. Why is this notepad stupid? Because it's extremely simple and primitive, making it understandable for everyone! The interface consists of just seven elements: - Text field for entering the file path; - "Browse..." button; - "Open" button; - "New" button; - "Save" button; - Text field for viewing and editing the file's text; - "Exit" button. This is my first even slightly useful Python program, so I'd be grateful if you'd test it and see if this stupid notepad proves useful! Stupid Notepad is an open source project. You can read the code in "Stupid Notepad.py" in this folder or visit GitHub: github.com/artemik01/stupid-notepad -
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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.
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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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Perpetual Notes
Write beautifully. Organize easily. Find everything.
Take notes faster. Find information easily. Save notes in RTF with rich text formatting and images, meeting notes, web pages, projects, travel plan, research drafts - with Perpetual Notes as your note taking app, have fun with note taking again. Runs on Windows 7/8/10. -
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Crispy Synced Notes
A note taking program with WebDAV sync
An note taking program with WebDAV sync capabilities. It works on a local (and WebDAV) directory and shows the items (text/image/binary) in a tree view. Any changes are reflected in the file system directly. Features: - group notes and images in a tree structure (using folders) - can work on any directory on your machine - technically works like a file browser with inline text editing - synchronizes with any WebDAV server (optionally using SSL/TLS) - allows one-way and two-way synchronization - allows to encrypt your files locally and remote using AES256 - multi language support You can obtain the full source code at: https://crispy-cow.de/git/CrispySyncNote.git Latest changes: 2.1.0: Updated for Java 9 and up 2.0.2: Added more UI translation, updated greek language (thanks to geogeo) 2.0.1: Bugfix: Sync state is now copied when duplicating workspace due to change in encryption settings -
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LinWriter
small efficient text editor for Windows and Linux
LinWriter is a small robust utility that can write quick documents and notes for your every day use. Providing a friendly and intuitive interface, it offers a distraction free environment to enhance productivity for your documents and notes. Key features include a minimalistic interface and support for common formats such as TXT, Markdown, HTML and its custom format 'rtdoc', which allows rich text editing. Including are also basic formatting options, inserting graphics, bullets, numbered lists and checkboxes. -
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ExcellentWriter
Make Office a novel writing tool.
ExcellentWriter is supposed to be a tool which lets you organize, write and format your novel inside Excel and in the end lets you use the power of Word to do the finishing touches. Sounds crazy? Is crazy! What Word alone lacks in this kind of features is provided with this tool. This way you can stay inside the Office family if you like these programs. Get id -
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TotesNotes
Simple Popup Notes
I was tired of always having to start a new instance of notepad to take a note of something during my busy work day. All the other note applications seem very bulky and didn't really work with the fast pace that I work at. So... I made TotesNotes!. Click the little tray icon and up pops a note pad to pop text into. There are even a few tabs if you want to seperate them a little bit. * Requires .NET 4.5 Note : If you dont see the icon in your tray, just drag it next to your clock. It should stay there for future use. Feel free to add ideas and suggestions to the discussion group. -
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Pythopad
A free Python source code editor and Notepad replacement for Windows
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ThoughtStack
Organize your thoughts with ThoughtStack!
ThoughtStack is a folding-tree-based notepad. It's great for brain storming, outlining, planning, and all your other note-taking needs! -
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This program has been created for the purpose of supplying a simple and compact means of creating, storing and organizing small text documents in a database searchable by title or subject. It has been created with note taking and reminder notices in mind
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BoostNote Legacy
Real-time collaborative writing
Note-taking app for programmers. App is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Built with Electron, React + Redux, Webpack, and CSS modules. Write overviews of systems including concepts, terminology definitions and descriptions of how these concepts work together. Having a 'living document' to help drive dialogue and exchange of ideas through collaboration helps this process significantly. It’s time to aggregate your knowledge in a single place. Build a team-wide knowledge management system to solve the information silos. Organize your dev team's sprint backlog and visualize them with status, assignees, reviewers, due date and everything you need. Reduce repeated progress updates in the company chat and standup meetings. Collaborate with your teammates in a doc with Boost Note's real-time editing. Boost Note's editor makes it easy to write a tech spec with Charts.js, Mermaid, Latex, PlantUML and so on. -
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Boostnote is an open source note-taking app for programmers. Apps available for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. Built with Electron, React + Redux, Webpack and CSSModules.
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BrainDump is a hierarchical note-taking application written in C#. It is similar to TreePad, JTreePad, and other Tree-like note-taking applications.
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加密記事本可加密你的文字，避免你的個人隱私隨意遭人窺探 協助翻譯軟體: https://github.com/oxygen-TW/Encrypted-notepad-traslation Update v3.6.0 1. Add counter. 2. Start change code to OOP. -------- A notebook software that can encrypt your text. It can protect the document have privacy! This software have English and other language support, you can change default language in "設定 -> 更改語言". If you can help me to translate language, please visit https://github.com/oxygen-TW/Encrypted-notepad-traslation Download v3.0.0.0 or newer, cause old version have fatal secure defect. Update v3.6.0 1. Add counter. 2. Start change code to OOP. Donate: BTC: 3KyGSuFzJdE4rdUEovJfPqBvVbpt4mFM6k ETH: 0x0867142b70fa52dec17036cb995f042ff9e86c65
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Govel
Lightweight and lightning fast novel writing and organizing tool
Govel is a lightweight novel writing and organizing software designed with the intention to leave your hands where they belong: on the keyboard. There are no fancy menus, submenus, dialogues, buttons, tabs, you name it. You don't even need to use the mouse, which makes your overall workflow faster than in any other program. You can still customize the visual appearance while beeing maximum productive. And the best of all: Govel is completly free.