Tomboy

Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or...

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have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in postindustrial australia? or are you one of those desperate souls with homemade, buggy, or notquiteperfect notes systems?

time for tomboy. we bet you'll be surprised at how well a little application can make life less cluttered and run more smoothly.

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Org mode

Org-mode is for keeping notes, maintaining ToDo lists, doing project planning, and authoring with a fast and effective plain-text system.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Customizable Portable Privacy focused Hierarchical structure Command line interface Emacs integration
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Nuclino

Nuclino is the easiest way to organize and share knowledge in teams. Create real-time collaborative documents and connect them instantly like a wiki. Use the tree, board, and graph view to explore and organize your knowledge visually.

Freemium Web

MarkDown support Real time collaboration WYSIWYG Support Knowledge base
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nvALT

A fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications.

Free Open Source Mac OS X

MarkDown support Integrated Search Sync with Simplenote
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AllMyNotes Organizer

AllMyNotes Organizer is a multi-functional hierarchical information manager for Windows.

Freemium Windows

Portable Protected by Password Tree view
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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

Oinker looks like a plain chat program on the surface, but it allows you to save the specified messages (called ‘oinks’ in Oinker) on the spot, and more importantly, it allows you to connect the messages in an infinite number of ways to...

Free Web
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Zoho Notebook

Online Notebook application: Zoho Notebook lets you combine text, images, audio, video, RSS feeds, documents and much more.

Free Personal Mac OS X Android iPhone Web Apple Watch

Cloud sync Web clipper Handwriting recognition Audio with notes
32 Like

Omni Notes

Note taking open-source application aimed to have both a simple interface but keeping smart behavior.

Free Open Source Android

Works Offline Encrypted Notes Native application
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QOwnNotes

Plain text notepad with markdown support and todo list manager for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that works together with the notes application of ownCloud.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Qt

MarkDown support Owncloud integration iCal integration Hostable Configurable Nextcloud integration
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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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nvPY

nvPY is a note-taking tool inspired by Notational Velocity, nvALT and ResophNotes. It syncs with simplenote, and runs on Linux, Windows and OSX.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
28 Like

Gnote

gnote is a note-taking application for gtk desktops. it is a port of tomboy to c++. gnote is part of the gnome desktop environment, often filling the need for personal information management.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
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Awesome Note

Awesome Note is an innovative note taking application and to-do manager that allows you to combine notes with to-do flexibility.

Commercial iPhone iPad
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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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MyTetra

MyTetra is open source and cross platform personal manager for information accumulation. It is powerful program for data memorization and structuring notes.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
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Yojimbo

Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible.

Commercial Mac OS X
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GNotes

GNotes is an Android notepad/notebook that can synchronize with Google GMail. GNotes is a notepad design in mind for easy note-taking. What it do is to help you taking notes easily on mobile phone and sync all of your notes with GMail.

Freemium Android iPhone Web Chrome

Handwritten Notes Voice Notes
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myBase

myBase is a unique freeform database software that creates full-text searchable databases and organizes information in the tree-structured outline form, along with capability of capturing information from a variety of data sources such as...

Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux
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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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Curio

Curio is an innovative and visual application for brainstorming, notetaking, and project management.

Commercial Mac OS X

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Org mode

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