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.

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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 asyoutype. creating a new page is easy by either clicking on the "create new note" button, by linking to a nonexisting page or by writing a camelcase name in any note. pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, in plain text format with lightweight markup, and can have attachments (stored along the notes).

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

The Best 17 Zim Alternatives

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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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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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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
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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

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Privacy focused Privacy protection Security focused Ad free Works Offline Android Sync Cloud sync MarkDown support Sync between devices Tag based Sync with Dropbox AES encryption Encrypted Notes Client side encryption Decentralized End to end encryption Cross platform Very strong privacy Clean design Content Filtering Local Storage Nested Folders Plain text authoring Plugin support Privacy Protected Real time sync
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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
100 Like

TagSpaces

TagSpaces is a multiplatform application, which allows you to manage and organize your local files with the help of tags.

Freemium Windows Linux Android iPhone Mac

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Works Offline MarkDown support Tag based Hierarchical structure Built in Note Taker Support for WebDAV File organization File search Automatic file renaming Support for Batch Mode Built in editor Chromecast support Color coding File preview File tagging Indexed search Information aggregator Visual Tagging
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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
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
47 Like

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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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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Notion

With so many tools, it's hard to keep everyone on the same page. Notion is a new tool that unifies them all. It's like Google Docs, but everything is organized and discoverable by your team. Real collaboration in real-time.

Freemium Windows iPhone iPad Web Mac

Collaborative writing Google Drive integration MarkDown support Integrated Search Real time collaboration Drag n drop Support for @mentions Slack integration Embedded media Team Collaboration Syntax Highlighting Wiki like interface Youtube integration Knowledge base Real time editing
31 Like

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
30 Like

Quiver

Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code and Markdown within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX cells, and find any note instantly via the full-text search.

Commercial

MarkDown support Sync with Dropbox Support for LaTeX Syntax Highlighting Full text search Live Preview Code formatting
18 Like

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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Inkdrop

The note-taking app with robust Markdown editor, supporting macOS, Windows, and Linux. This app is designed to be the most convenient way to make notes in Markdown for your daily hacking.

Commercial

Cloud sync MarkDown support Support for Themes Share notes Sequence Diagrams Flow diagram visualisation REST API Latex Math
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Joplin

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone

MarkDown support Encrypted Notes End to end encryption Sync with Onedrive
6 Like

glimpses

Start writing your thoughts and memories and have them synced and backed up in the cloud. glimpses use Dropbox syncing capabilities to sync all your entries. It stores...

Free Windows

Ad free Shared links MarkDown support Tag based Export to PDF Distraction free writing Sync with Dropbox Built in Calendar Timeline based

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Zim

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The Best 17 Zim Alternatives

Evernote

Laverna

Simplenote

Standard Notes

TiddlyWiki

TagSpaces

Turtl

Boostnote

Nuclino

Leanote

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Quiver

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