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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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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Google Keep

Google Keep has several features including color coding notes, inserting images, creating lists, geo-fencing, shareable notes, and search by color.

Free Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Chrome OS Web Chrome

Works Offline Real time collaboration Sync with Google Calendar Handwriting recognition Html parsing Share notes Sync on many devices Voice Notes
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Laverna

laverna is a javascript note taking application with markdown editor and encryption support. consider it like open source alternative to evernote.

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

Works Offline Cloud sync MarkDown support Sync between devices Support for Keyboard Shortcuts AES encryption Dropbox integration Dropbox syncing Encrypted Notes Support for LaTeX No registration required Protected by Password Syntax Highlighting Tags Feature
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Notezilla

Colorful & powerful sticky notes app for Windows & Phones.

Commercial Windows Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web

Real time collaboration Skinnable
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Simplenote

made by the company behind wordpress , simplenote is an easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas, and more. your notes stay updated across all your devices. no buttons to press. it just works.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web Mac

MarkDown support Sync between devices Tag based Search by tags Electron based File Versioning
336 Like

Zim

Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Portable Text formatting Hierarchical structure WYSIWYG Support Sync with Dropbox File Versioning Nested Notes
202 Like

CintaNotes

CintaNotes is an ultra-ergonomic, productivity-boosting notetaking app for Windows. It will help you collect, organize, and find any information.

Freemium Windows

Portable Hierarchical tagging Sync with Simplenote
152 Like

TiddlyWiki

TiddlyWiki is a highly customizable notewiki for capturing, organising and sharing complex information.

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

MarkDown support Multiple languages Encrypted Notes Wiki like interface
151 Like

wikidPad

wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Wiki like interface Cross Linking
148 Like

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
92 Like

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
89 Like

Turtl

Turtl is a private place to keep your notes, research, passwords, bookmarks, dream logs, photos, documents and anything else you want kept safe.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android Chrome Self-Hosted Firefox

Privacy protection Android Sync MarkDown support Sync between devices Real time collaboration Sync on many devices Encrypted Notes Client side encryption End to end encryption Data portability Password encryption
82 Like

Alternote

gorgeous note-taking app for mac with evernote integration. alternote has pixel-perfect interface, robust search, distraction-free mode and lots more.

Commercial Mac OS X

WYSIWYG Support Night mode Distraction free writing Distraction free UI Evernote integration
72 Like

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.

Free Open Source Windows Linux Android iPhone Mac

MarkDown support Syntax Highlighting Local Storage Live Preview No Internet required
71 Like

Notational Velocity

Notational Velocity is a mouseless application for storing and retrieving notes. With Notational Velocity, searching for notes is not a separate action; rather, it is the primary interface.

Free Open Source Mac OS X
71 Like

BasKet

A note taking application for KDE. Lots of features.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
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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.

Free Windows
69 Like

KeepNote

KeepNote: note-taking and organization. KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux
66 Like

RightNote

RightNote will help you get a grip on information overload. It is designed to be easy to use for the new-comer, but also provide advanced features once your notes start to accumulate.

Freemium Windows
60 Like

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

Portable Capture Screen / Take screenshots Save web page for offline use

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