PNotes

PNotes (Pinned Notes or Portable Notes, use what you prefer) is written entirely in C and Windows API (with Pelles C for Windows IDE) - so it is fast and light-weight.

Free
Open Source
Windows

pnotes (pinned notes or portable notes, use what you prefer) is written entirely in c and windows api (with pelles c for windows ide) so it is fast and lightweight. it has flexible settings both for the program in whole and for individual note. skins, fonts, colors, alarms, transparency level there are allinone. any portion of note's text can be formatted separately.there is a variety of skins for pnotes and, moreover, you can create your own one if download pnskincreator a small utility for creation pnotes skins. notes can also be skinless, that allows stretching them.

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Portable Sync on many devices

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Evernote

Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet Web Blackberry Windows RT

IFTTT integration Works Offline Automatic attachment management Cloud sync Export to iCalendar Google Drive integration MarkDown support Nested Notebooks Owncloud integration Sync with Owncloud PDF annotation Sync between devices Tag based Text formatting Web clipper
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Microsoft OneNote

A digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information. .

Free Mac OS X Windows Android iPhone iPad Windows RT Windows Phone Apple Watch

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Laverna

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Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

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Colorful & powerful sticky notes app for Windows & Phones.

Commercial Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web

Real time collaboration Skinnable
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Standard Notes

Love Notes. Love Encryption. Standard Notes is a safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work. It's simple. Standard Notes is the easiest notes app you'll ever use.

Freemium Open Source

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Freemium Windows

Portable Hierarchical tagging Sync with Simplenote
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CherryTree

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

Free Open Source Windows Linux

Portable Multiple languages Integrated Search Tablet support Export to PDF Syntax Highlighting Data portability
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NixNote

nixnote, formerly nevernote, is an open source client for evernote . it is written in java so it will also run on windows & os-x, but the primary focus has been to try and get a usable environment for linux.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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Alternote

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Commercial Mac OS X

WYSIWYG Support Night mode Distraction free writing Distraction free UI Evernote integration
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Boostnote

Boostnote is simple note app, code manager, snippet manager and memo app for software programmers. Boostnote saves all of your information about development. Be a hacker's brain. Using Boostnote is totally free.

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MarkDown support Syntax Highlighting Local Storage Live Preview No Internet required
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BasKet

A note taking application for KDE. Lots of features.

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Stickies

Stickies is a PC utility written to replace Post-It-style notes left stuck to your monitor. The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the Registry.

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WizNote

WizNote is a Note software, which is especially designed for Internet users and mobile Internet users. WizNote focuses more on notes of rapid collection, management, reading and sharing.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet Web Windows RT

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Leanote

Leanote provides services for note and blog. You can use "note" as your personal notebook, if you want to share with friends, just publish note or notebook to the blog.

Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Web Self-Hosted

Portable MarkDown support Nested Notebooks Export to PDF Sequence Diagrams Full text search Latex Math Export to HTML
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Oinker

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Zoho Notebook

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ColorNote

ColorNote is a simple notepad app. It give you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, email, message, shopping lists and todo lists. ColorNote makes taking a note easier than any other notepad apps.

Free Android Android Tablet
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The Guide

The Guide is a two-pane outliner - a program that allows you to arrange text notes in a tree-like structure. It supports formatted text, exporting to RTF and hyperlinks (both internal and external).

Free Open Source Windows
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Elephant

Elephant is a notetaker with a classic interface you already know. Keep your notes to yourself. No accounts or clouds. For syncing use Dropbox, Github, rsync, ... No feature bloat or redesigns, ever.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

Portable Works Offline MarkDown support Save as txt

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The Best 97 PNotes Alternatives

Evernote

Microsoft OneNote

Laverna

Notezilla

Tomboy

Standard Notes

CintaNotes

CherryTree

NixNote

Alternote

Boostnote

BasKet

Stickies

WizNote

Leanote

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