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MemPad is a plain text outliner and note taking program with a tree structured index. All pages are stored in a single file. User interface available in 20 languages.
- Note-taking Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Streamline teamwork with real-time collaboration, drag-and-drop content organization, and visual simplicity across notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
- Note-taking Tool
- Free Personal • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving.
- Note-taking Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Kindle Fire
Dynalist is a web app that lets you break down and organize your thoughts in the format of lists.
- Note-taking Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- iPad
Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
- Todo List Manager
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Apple Watch
- Android Wear
- Kindle Fire
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
Workflowy lets you organise your brain into easily manageable lists. It also works as a single-pane outliner with inline notes. It offers one-click hoisting (zooming into branches). The online version syncs with mobile apps.
- Todo List Manager
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Very similar to Notational Velocity but for Windows.
- Note-taking Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
Made by the company behind WordPress, Simplenote enables users to take notes, lists, and ideas. These notes are stored on the cloud and are accessible across multiple devices.
- Note-taking Tool
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
Standard Notes is a simple and private notes app. It allows you to write and sync your notes across all your devices, iOS, Android, Linux, Windows, MacOS, and web browser.
- Note-taking Tool
- Freemium • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- F-Droid
Google Keep has several features including color coding notes, inserting images, creating lists, geo-fencing, shareable notes, and search by color.
- Note-taking Tool
- Free • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Android Wear
Copied is a full featured clipboard manager. Save text, links, and images that you’ve copied to your clipboard from any app.
- Clipboard Manager
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
Drafts, where text starts. Quickly capture text and send it almost anywhere! Drafts lets you turn text into action – it’s a quick notebook, handy editor, and writing automation tool, all in one. Open it and write right away, and create.
- Note-taking Tool
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch