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CherryTree

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data... Created by Giuseppe Penone

Free Open Source
Windows
Linux
PortableApps.com

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

- Rich text
- Syntax highlighting
- Images handling
- Embedded files handling
- Multi-level lists handling
- Simple tables handling
- Codeboxes handling
- Execution of the code for code nodes and codeboxes
- Alignment of text, images, tables and codeboxes
- Hyperlinks associated to text and images
- Spell check
- Intra application copy/paste
- Cross application copy/paste
- Copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text
- Print & save as pdf file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
- Export to html of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
- Export to plain text of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
- TOC generation for a node / node and subnodes / the whole tree, based on headers h1, h2 and h3
- Find a node, find in selected node, find in selected node and subnodes, find in all nodes
- Replace in nodes names, replace in selected node, replace in selected node and subnodes, replace in all nodes
- Iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
- Import from html file, import from folder of html files
- Import from plain text file, import from folder of plain text files
- Import from basket, cherrytree, epim html, gnote, keepnote, keynote, knowit, mempad, notecase, rednotebook, tomboy, treepad lite, tuxcards, zim
- Export to cherrytree file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
- Password protection
- Tree nodes drag and drop
- Automatic link to web page if writing the URL
- Automatic link to node if writing node name either with no spaces and camelcase or surrounded by [[node name]]... More Info »

CherryTree is listed in

Best of Windows Apps, Notes, ubuntu18.04GUI, Apps for Productive Workstation, and Secure Note-Taking

Links to official CherryTree sites

Official Website GitHub

Features

Support for Android Things Code formatting Customizable Data portability Encryption Export to HTML Folder Tree Hierarchical structure Infinite hierarchical depth Integrated Search MarkDown support Multiple languages Notetaking Password encryption Portable Rich text editing Export to PDF Syntax Highlighting Tablet support Tree structure Tree-style Tree view Add a feature

Categories

Office & Productivity Security & Privacy

Tags

german notebook outliner rich-text tree

CherryTree was added by isis in May 2010 and the latest update was made in Nov 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Nov 2019. It's possible to update the information on CherryTree or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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CherryTree Comments

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Comment by wangych

about CherryTree · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 3 Helpful Report as spam

cherrytree can provide programming language syntax highlighting and basic table editing, which is not provided in Zim Desktop. But I like more the way in Zim to organize pages and files, which provides one-to-one map between page and file, while its editing capability is limited, in the attachment folder it can hold any different type of files, so you can edit different format in attachment files.

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