Athens Alternatives

Athens is described as 'The problem with notetaking apps like Evernote or Apple Notes is that once you write a note, after a week you never look at it again. Without any organization, you're stuck praying that search will work for your future self' and is a Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Athens for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Athens alternative is Logseq, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Athens are Anytype, Notesnook, Zettlr and Zim.

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  1. Dendron icon
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    Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.

    222 Dendron alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  2. TheBrain icon
     142 likes

    TheBrain helps you organize all your Web pages, contacts, documents, emails and files in a context-driven visual map.

    129 TheBrain alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
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    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  3. Bear icon
     98 likes

    Flexible note-taking and writing tool featuring advanced markdown with in-line images, cross-note links, live preview, hashtags, Focus Mode, plain text storage, iCloud sync, one-tap formatting, smart data recognition, and multiple export formats for portability.

    267 Bear alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. iA Writer icon
     97 likes

    The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. The key is focus. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text.

    125 iA Writer alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. Coda.io icon
     33 likes

    Seamlessly integrates words, data, and team collaboration, eliminating the need to switch applications. Features include customizable views, real-time collaboration, full-text search, and calendar integration, empowering teams to scale and coordinate tasks efficiently with a WYSIWYG editor.

    106 Coda.io alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android Tablet
     
  6. FuseBase icon
     93 likes

    Combines AI-powered client portals, unlimited external accounts, internal workspaces, collaborative document editing, smart task management, and no-code knowledge bases with smart documents, supporting 2000+ embeds for streamlined project delivery and feedback.

    235 FuseBase alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Google Chrome
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  7. Wiki.js icon
     52 likes

    Write your content in the widely used and simple Markdown format, using the built-in visual editor. Unlike other wiki software that save content in a database with a difficult to extract format, Wiki.js saves all your content directly into Markdown (.

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  8. Roam Research icon
     59 likes

    As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

    181 Roam Research alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  9. TiddlyRoam icon
     22 likes

    TiddlyRoam is your open source external brain. TiddlyRoam allows you to quickly create your own wiki. You can add fragments of thoughts and findings whenever they come to you. TiddlyRoam will link them and help you spot the patterns.

    60 TiddlyRoam alternatives

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    • Mac
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    • Chrome OS
    • Self-Hosted
    • TiddlyWiki
     
  10. Outline icon
     23 likes

    Your team’s knowledge base Team wiki, documentation, meeting notes, playbooks, onboarding, work logs, brainstorming, & more….

    105 Outline alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Cloudron
     
  11. Amplenote icon
     24 likes

    Amplenote allows you to take notes and link those notes to functional task and contacts lists for seamless project management. It supports integration with Google and Outlook calendars to schedule tasks and allows e-mail integration as well.

    137 Amplenote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  12. Notable icon
     34 likes

    Notable is a cross-platform note app. Notes are plain Markdown files, their metadata is stored as Markdown front matter. Attachments are also plain files, if you attach a picture.jpg to a note everything about it will be preserved, and it will remain accessible like any other...

    78 Notable alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
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