note-taking
Minimal journaling CLI for developers. Git-backed, terminal-native, zero friction. Just type journal and start writing.
journalot is a CLI tool for maintaining a daily markdown journal with Git-based version control. It's designed to be lightweight and easy to use, promoting mindfulness and reflection.
You can also search past entries by keyword or date using command-line tools like grep or fzf. For example, grep "confidence" or "new idea" ~/journalot/entries/*.md
Minne, a read-it-later & personal knowledge management solution .
Minne (Swedish for "memory") is a personal knowledge management system and save-for-later application for capturing, organizing, and accessing your information. Inspired by the Zettelkasten method, it uses a graph database to automatically create connections between your notes without manual linking overhead.
the everything app for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Anytype is an encrypted, local-first alternative to the cloud-based Internet. With Anytype, you can build digital Spaces around your interests. These spaces can be personal - for diaries, ideas and drafts, or shared - with your family, small communities, teams, neighbors and people with similar interests.
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Note Conversion Tool.
Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown.
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Lightweight, self-hosted note-taking application with filesystem-based storage so you maintain 100% portability of your notes.
A lightweight, self-hosted note-taking application with filesystem-based storage. Built with Nuxt 3, TypeScript, and designed for simplicity and performance. The primary goal of this app is to manage your notes in a manner that is 100% portable. You should be able to manage your notes in terminal, notepad or any other app - there is no database, just folders and files.
A simple, self-hosted app for your checklists and notes.
Tired of bloated, cloud-based to-do apps? rwMarkable is a lightweight alternative for managing your personal checklists and notes. It's built with Next.js 14, is easy to deploy, and keeps all your data on your own server.
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Notes & Bookmarks. Save all your information in one place.
An open source self hosted web app for your notes and bookmarks side by side.
command line and local web plain text note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application.
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.
nb creates notes in text-based formats like Markdown, Org, LaTeX, and AsciiDoc, can work with files in any format, can import and export notes to many document formats, and can create private, password-protected encrypted notes and bookmarks. With nb, you can write notes using Vim, Emacs, VS Code, Sublime Text, and any other text editor you like, as well as terminal and GUI web browsers. nb works in any standard Linux / Unix environment, including macOS and Windows via WSL, MSYS, and Cygwin. Optional dependencies can be installed to enhance functionality, but nb works great without them.
Export notes from Notes.app
- Notes can be exported to markdown or HTML format.
- Creation & modification dates of notes are preserved.
- Notes are stored in directories named after the notebooks in which they are stored in Notes.app.
- Notes in same notebook having same name are renamed to avoid old notes being re-written by new ones.
- Support for exporting attachments of type - JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF & BMP while exporting in markdown format.
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A secure note-taking application for linux, integrated with Etebase for encrypted synchronization.
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A Terminal Based Note Taking App.
Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer. Built with Bubbletea, Toney brings a sleek TUI interface with markdown rendering, file navigation, and native Neovim editing – all in your terminal.
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Write it Down. Own it Forever.
A clean, quiet space to think. Your notes live in standard Markdown within a local SQLite database. No vendor lock-in, no distractions. Selfhosted notes app. Single golang binary, notes stored as markdown within SQLite, full-text search, very low resource usage
AI-Powered Note Taking App.
An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .
Blinko is an innovative open-source project designed for individuals who want to quickly capture and organize their fleeting thoughts. Blinko allows users to seamlessly jot down ideas the moment they strike, ensuring that no spark of creativity is lost.
An "Owlistic" notetaking app to easily organize and manage your notes and tasks! 🦉 Free open-source notetaking app with real-time sync 🔄⚡️🚀
Ephemeral Markdown Paper.
Traditional todo apps can be overwhelming. Ephe is designed to organize your tasks with plain Markdown. Ephe gives you just one clean page to focus your day.
openleaf is a minimalist, browser-based rich text editor that lets you start writing instantly without signup, downloads, or configuration. Just go to any URL and start typing!
Open-source and local-first Slack and Notion alternative that puts you in control of your data.
A structured personal knowledge base, inspired by zettlekasten and org-mode.
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Notes: Document notes about individual items or concepts
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Contexts: Provide context around a single topic and hotlink to individual concepts in your notes
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Pipelines: Document your processes, attaching contexts to each step.
Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. The AI workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data.
Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.
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Online Note Taking Site.
At Notemod, we believe that taking notes should be simple, powerful, and accessible to everyone. Whether you're a student, professional, or creative thinker, Notemod is designed to streamline your note-taking experience with a modern touch.
A smart new editor for thoughts, notes, tasks and planning.
Thymer is a smart new editor (IDE) designed to write, plan or share big ideas at the speed of thought.
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Docs is a collaborative text editor designed to address common challenges in knowledge building and sharing.
A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline.
Docs is the result of a joint effort led by the French 🇫🇷🥖 (DINUM) and German 🇩🇪🥨 governments (ZenDiS).
Minimalist, self-hosted publishing platform.
TapNote is a minimalist, self-hosted publishing platform inspired by Telegra.ph, focusing on instant Markdown-based content creation. It provides a distraction-free writing experience with instant publishing capabilities, making it perfect for quick notes, blog posts, or documentation sharing.
A self-hosted, database-less note-taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.
Secure, Lightweight Encrypted Notepad for Privacy.
SealNotes is an end-to-end encrypted web-based notepad that stores and manages your notes.
Note Mark is a lighting fast and minimal; web-based Markdown notes app.
Take Control of Your Learning. Privately.
A powerful open-source, AI-powered note-taking/research platform that respects your privacy. An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features.
Markdown note-taking app.
Many Notes is a markdown note-taking app designed for simplicity! Easily create or import your vaults and organize your thoughts right away.
Vaults are simply storage containers for your files, and Many Notes provides you with the flexibility to keep everything in one vault or to separate your files into multiple vaults.
NoteFlow is a lightweight, Markdown-based note-taking application with task management capabilities. It provides a clean interface for creating, viewing, and managing notes with support for tasks, images, files,and code snippets.
An open-source, self-hosted personal note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .
Blinko is an innovative open-source project designed for individuals who want to quickly capture and organize their fleeting thoughts. Blinko allows users to seamlessly jot down ideas the moment they strike, ensuring that no spark of creativity is lost.
Self-hosted LiveSync is a community-implemented synchronization plugin, available on every obsidian-compatible platform and using CouchDB or Object Storage (e.g., MinIO, S3, R2, etc.) as the server.
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
SilverBullet is a note-taking application optimized for people with a hacker mindset. We all take notes. There’s a million note taking applications out there. Wouldn’t it be nice to have one where your notes are more than plain text files? Where your notes essentially become a database that you can query; that you can build custom knowledge applications on top of? A hackable notebook, if you will?
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Build your personal knowledge base with TriliumNext Notes.
TriliumNext Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.
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Self-organizing AI note-taking app that runs models locally.
Reor is an AI-powered desktop note-taking app: it automatically links related ideas, answers questions on your notes and provides semantic search. Everything is stored locally and you can edit your notes with an Obsidian-like markdown editor.
All In One KnowledgeOS. Write, Draw, Plan, All at Once. With AI.
A privacy-focussed, local-first, open-source, and ready-to-use alternative for Notion & Miro. One hyper-fused platform for wildly creative minds.
AFFiNE is a workspace with fully merged docs, whiteboards and databases. Get more things done, your creativity isn’t monotone. There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.
Easily capture and share your great thoughts. Open Source and Free forever. A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service.
Encyclopedia of note taking apps. 36 best note taking apps analyzed over 306 features.
Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base that works on top of your local folder of plain text files.
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Minimalist, Free & Anonymous Note Taking App. With QuickNote you can create notes on the fly - that can contain links, images, lists or snippets of code - and share them with your colleagues or friends in seconds.
Bangle.io is a powerful yet simple note taking web app that works on top of your locally saved Markdown files.
a desktop wiki.
Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control.