AlephNote
An extensible, lightweight desktop note client for multiple backends
What is AlephNote?
AlephNote is a lightweight note taking desktop app usable with multiple backends:
Standard Note With the StandardNotePlugin your notes get synced with a Standard File server. Your notes are locally encrypted and cannot be read from anyone but you.
Simplenote With the SimpleNotePlugin you can sync your notes with the free SimpleNote online service
Nextcloud/owncloud notes The NextcloudPlugin syncs your notes with the notes app running on you own private nextcloud/owncloud instance
Local You can also simply not use a remote backend and either use the HeadlessPlugin (don't sync the notes anywhere) or the FilesystemPlugin (sync the notes with another folder).™
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AlephNote information
- Developed byMikescher
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.8
- Alternatives66 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 176 Stars
- 21 Forks
- 28 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- Note-taking
Outstanding lightweight note taking program that gets out of your way and has great usability when open. I use it with Simplenote to connect to other devices and it works beautifully.
The developer is actively working on this one and has considered suggestions and worked with users to constantly improve.
A great open, free software and a great project.
In its default presentation "AlephNote" is head and shoulders above "ResophNotes"
(RM has bugs that were driving me crazy, and have never been fixed)
AlephNotes is a portable plain-text note-taker on steroids
Excellent 'Settings" options that include ...
Default "AlephNote" is a simple notes list ...
... with Settings tweaks 'AlephNote" can be a full tree-structured notes-manager
Home page is minimalist. :( Needs more documentation for creating "snippets" and associated "hotkeys"
Slow response to bugs.
Best quick notes app after one small change! (see below)
The change I've done: rebinded "DeleteNote" shortcut to the "Alt+Delete" combination with the "Window wide" scope.
I think that's the essence of the "quick notes": quickly create, quickly delete.
An excellent and continuously updated alternative to ResophNote. Among the many options for text note engines, it works well with Simplenote but can also each note file as a .txt on the local drive allowing two-way synchronisation with Dropbox. It is wonderfully customizable and comes with a variety of themes.
This is a free and open source application, its detail and stability is excellent, and consumes very very minimal system resources. It’s by an order of magnitude faster and more responsive than any of the alternatives.
Last but not least, the developer is very responsive and engages with feature requests and bug reports through GitHub.