Jarnal is an open-source application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal, making a presentation, annotating a document - including pdf - or collaborating using a stylus, mouse or keyboard. It is similar to Microsoft .
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Diaro is designed to record your activities, daily events, appointments, experiences, thoughts, secrets and ideas throughout the day and sync data across all your devices. It is the easiest and most secure way to keep a diary.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Kindle Fire
OpenSource note-taking & archiving alternative to Evernote, Microsoft OneNote & Google Keep.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- PHP
- Cloudron
Ultra-ergonomic notetaking app for Windows offering text capture, file attachments, synchronization, hierarchic tagging, encryption, and automatic backups.
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Markor is a TextEditor for Android, versatile, flexible, and lightweight. Markor utilizes simple markup formats like Markdown and todo.txt for note-taking and list management. It is versatile at working with text; it can also be used for keeping bookmarks, copying to clipboard...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Android
- Android Tablet
- F-Droid
Fetchnotes helps you capture and organize short notes like books to read, ideas and shopping lists - like sticky notes for the modern age. Spend less time organizing your notes and more time acting on them!
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Online
- iPhone
- Evernote
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- iPhone
Your Best Productivity Tool For...
Capturing Ideas in Seconds
- Make a draft right after NoteBox launches
- Clean, simple and minimalist design
- Pull down or tap ‘+’ button to create another notes quickly
- Use Siri to take notes
Collecting Information
- Select texts in the no.
UbikFocus for iPhone/iPad is the perfect tool for your task management! Organize and track your tasks by projects, folders, contexts, persons or dates without adding any extra work.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
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A simplified, RedNotebook-type journal/diary app. With a focus on minimal design and a distraction free writing environment. Makes a folder full of dated text files that are easy to access even without the journal program.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Chrome OS
Write in Private. Penzu is your own personal journal and online diary.
Don't want to share everything with the world? Easily keep your personal thoughts, memories, and ideas safe and secure in the cloud! And if you want to, you can share your individual entries via email or.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
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Growly Notes is a note-taking app somewhat like
Microsoft OneNote . Gather text, images, links and anything else you can think of in free-form pages organized into sections.
ShoveBox catches all those little scraps of information that you can't act on now but would rather not forget. It sits up in your menubar, waiting for you to drag in text, images, urls, and more.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
A freeware, lightweight, hierarchical notepad app. Development is (very slowly) ongoing but although the latest version is in late Beta the previous version works very well.
Quicknotes are used to create and manage in a easy and simple fashion your notes. It's not overhelming as the major note apps today. Simple notes, with simple formatting. But they have one nice feature for the only important thing in notes - keeping them organized.
NotePub is the best online notepad, and it's free. Notes can be public or private and can include pictures, files, links, tags, and encrypted data. You decide who gets to see your notes, and who can edit your notes.
Hypernotes is a way to store ideas in the same way that you think them. Notes can be created with images and text, organized in a tree structure and connected with internal hyperlinks. Written in Java, so it works wherever you go. (Requires Java 1.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
Sunset is a micro journal that helps you capture your thoughts and stay organized.
Larder is for bookmarking things on the web you'll need again. It's perfect for curating lists of libraries, tools, and reference material. Trial everything for 14 days, buy a paid account if it fits your workflow. It's honestly really good.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
- Safari
- Opera
- Firefox
Unleashing enterprise intelligence: Keeeb raises productivity and scales the impact and commercial potential of intelligence by engaging employees and customers with relevant knowledge and skills when and where they need it.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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Shtick is a place for people to share any list from bucket lists to movies, travel or your referential lists.
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News Lister is an absolutely free PHP script, which can be used to create simple news or articles management websites or to be integrated with existing websites to create news sections in them.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- PHP
Centrallo is a productivity tool that helps people organize, centralize, prioritize and share information. Short for “Central Location,” Centrallo is a better way to manage your personal and professional life.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Wear
Notepin offers a dead simple way to create public notebooks for free, with no registration required. And for a small premium, you can upgrade to password protect your notes.
Gubb is a free web-based application with an easy-to-use interface that enables you to create, manage and share an unlimited number of lists, as well as retrieve whole lists by text message & email.
Thoughtbox.es is a free online notes/ to do app. With a free account you are allowed 3 "trains of thought" for different projects/ideas in which you are allowed unlimited "thought boxes" which are basically like sticky notes that you can add different items...
Quickly filter and search for notes using categories based on hash tags. Additional full text search allows to find notes, even without tagging and never lose an idea again.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
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If private or professional, myLogbook is your fast friend to manage you notes and todos. Write down all of your ideas into myLogbook and attach files and pictues from your computer or websites with it. You can upload pictues, word and excel files, pdf and much file types into...
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Box Notes is a collaborative note-taking app for teams. Take meeting notes, share status updates and plan projects together, and access it all on the web, mobile or desktop.
Notably is a free markdown notes editor that allows you to very easily create and publish beautiful content.
Add digital stickers to your desktop and create reminders for your upcoming events, tasks or meetings using this intuitive software.
One platform to organize all your highlights - import Kindle highlights and annotate the web with the built-in highlighter.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
- Google Chrome
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Write.as lets you write and publish text instantly. Write a note for yourself to read later. Create a standalone article you can quickly broadcast on social media — or publish a full blog.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Google Chrome
- Kindle Fire
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WriteFreely is an open-source, minimalist, federated, self-hosted blogging platform. It was built for and by
Write.as and can be used to power a similar community or just a single blog.Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted
Known is a simple platform for publishing words, pictures, podcasts and more to a site that you control. Choose to share it on social networks like Twitter and Facebook, or extend it to integrate with the software you already use.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Self-Hosted
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Create mobile-friendly websites, blogs, and stores with user-friendly tools, marketing features, and multilingual support. No tech skills needed.
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
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A minimalist lightweight note/bookmark organizer, RSS reader and a blogging platform focusing on speed, simplicity and ease of navigation.
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Pocket Lists is a beautifully designed checklist app for managing to-do lists, focusing on important tasks, and collaborating on checklists and tasks with friends. The app excels as both an everyday to-do list organizer with sophisticated reminder functionality, and as a...
Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
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Platforms
- Online
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Watch
Simple checklist app. Just rows of text entries and a checkbox for each. No B.S., i.e., no categories, no sub-tasks, no time tracking, and no other crazy wizzbang features.
We like to think Plurk as a social network for weirdos - the cool, uncompromising and loving community for misfits we all long to have.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
«Miya Notes for Google Keep» is the easiest and the most convenient way to access Google Keep Notes on your Mac.
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Space to think about solutions. A unique online tool for affinity diagramming & brainstorming. Try it out for free.
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Cost / License
- Freemium
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- iPhone
- iPad
MixNote is a mobile note taking app, like a memo pad or notepad. Take note of every deserved thing, with text, ToDo, voice and picture.
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A simple and elegant open-source journal keeping software for Windows compatible with Day One
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