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CintaNotes

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CintaNotes is an ultra-ergonomic, productivity-boosting notetaking app for Windows. It will help you collect, organize, and find any information.

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License model

  • FreemiumProprietary

Country of Origin

  • RU flagRussia

Platforms

  • Windows
4.1 / 5 Avg rating (19)
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Features

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  1.  Portable
  2.  Knowledge Management
  3.  Snappy hotkeys
  4.  Custom rules
  5.  Sync with Simplenote
  6.  Hierarchical tagging
  7.  Wiki

 Tags

  • lists
  • getting-things-done
  • organizer
  • notes-manager
  • notepad

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    flounderingeel added CintaNotes as alternative to TriliumNext
    about 1 month ago
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    jdakfkj333 added CintaNotes as alternative to Print(Notes)
    3 months ago
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    8 months ago
  • TBayAreaPat reviewed CintaNotes  
    9 months ago

    Just started trying again and everything seems to pop up a must-upgrade message. Will bring in URL links, but not with the finesse or inline thumbnails like CherryTree or Obsidian.

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    POX added CintaNotes as alternative to ThinkPost
    10 months ago
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CintaNotes information

  • Developed by

    RU flagCinta Software
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $39 and $119 + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.1 (19 ratings)
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 24 comments and reviews about CintaNotes, and it has gotten 227 likes

CintaNotes was added to AlternativeTo by Pangolin on Apr 16, 2009 and this page was last updated Aug 26, 2021.

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Comment summary: CintaNotes is praised for its fast, lightweight, and intuitive design, featuring powerful search, tagging, and offline functionality. Users appreciate its active development, responsive support, and minimal resource use. While some desire image support and a mobile app, many find its simplicity and efficiency superior to more complex alternatives. The program's clean interface and ability to organize notes effectively make it a favorite among students, writers, and tech-savvy individuals.
Top Positive Comment
UnconditionalOne
Apr 28, 2014
4

I use CintaNotes for about a year now and here's what I love about it:

  • It's lightweight

    Comparing to other bloatware like Evernote, Cinta's resource consumption is vanishingly small. Its installer is less than 3M and memory usage is about 13M. (Maybe that's an old-fashioned way of thinking but seriously, 82M for an Evernote's 5.3.1 installer?!!! This is just ridiculous.)

    It has a portable version.

    Also, Cinta's GUI is very clean and intuitive.

  • It's straight to the point

    Cinta is for taking notes. Not for saving pages, watching videos, chatting with friends, teamwork, etc. Just notes. It's ideal for storing code snippets, system commands, setup instructions, etc. It supports text-formatting for greater readability. It doesn't require Internet connection at all if you don't want synchronization.

  • It stores all necessary meta

    Besides the content itself Cinta stores the user-defined tags, URL of the page the note was clipped from (if any), user remarks and note modification date/time.

  • It's easy to use

    Notes are organized via tags which allow quick access to the ones on topic via a sidebar. Tags can also be nested (in paid version). Moreover, Cinta has a powerful search-as-you-type search that can find notes based on any field like text itself, title, tags, time, URL, etc. Cinta has hotkeys for almost everything (clip text, show/hide main window, create note, move through note's fields, etc.)

  • It's in active development

    Cinta has an open public roadmap where you can place your feature requests, suggestions, bug reports and questions. There's quite a big community so your message won't be ignored.

    Also, you can check out what features are being developed and what's planned next. Currently among them are file and image attachments, search and replace inside note text, docking to screen edges, TODO list support, etc.

  • You can use it for free

    Unless you want some extra features like multiple notebooks, nested tags, Simplenote sync, HTML export, etc. you can use it completely for free for an unlimited time.

Though there are some missing functions like image attachments but otherwise IMO there are no downsides to this app. It's always in my system tray and I really use it on a daily basis. So if you are looking for a light and easy to use note app I do recommend at least to have a try with Cinta.

Top Negative Comment
bawldiggle
Jan 2, 2020
1

CintaNotes
After 2 days of extensive research and experimenting with CitaNotes ...

  • find/search only looks in active section/tab/node . . . ( they are all the same thing ).
  • with a notebook full of multiple "Sections" user must search through all "Sections" separately
  • to edit any note (or read long notes) you MUST open "Note Editor" a second window to the main GUI ... (note height in GUI is configerable)

CintaNotes is just a bunch of very basic note-listers strung together side by side.

It has all been done before in 2012 in another (hardly popular) tags based note taker. Tobu

The CintaNotes website looks very impressive with endless help, BUT it is no outliner if you are hoping to store thousands of notes.

Free CintaNotes is OK if you only have one section with only on-the-fly (24 hour life) notes.

TBayAreaPat
Aug 16, 2024
0

Just started trying again and everything seems to pop up a must-upgrade message. Will bring in URL links, but not with the finesse or inline thumbnails like CherryTree or Obsidian.

Peter S.
Aug 8, 2022
0

I use it to store bookmarks. It can filter by tags, descriptions, titles. The wanted bookmarks come up with an arrow to open them in the default browser.

Guest
Aug 22, 2020
1

Just simple, light weight, portable, the best, rules for categories and tags, etc Please work on your price you have a world wide market $/£5 x 1 million = £/$ 5m i could live on that...

Also when are you going to create a mobile version??

tudou
Mar 31, 2019
0

This is a very good software! The features/features that individuals prefer are as follows:

** When there is any information I want to keep, press the shortcut key to enter directly, the speed is very fast! (CyberArticle is also used at the same time; Evernotes is too cardged and out of shape) ** The tag is fully functional, which is a must for the future world. . . The query is very fast. . . Click on the tag directly to quickly filter. . . ** Ctrl+M merges the selected notes, which is very convenient; ** The latest notes are at the top; ** With hourly/dayly/weekly backup, safe and intimate. At present, there are more than 3,000 nodes of all sizes, and the query speed is still very fast.

W B
Feb 8, 2018
0

Very lean KM (Knowledge Management) app with responsive developer. Synchronizes with Simplenote, captures web pages, and has hierarchical tagging. (Now, we need icons / emoticons and flags with colors!)

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What is CintaNotes?

CintaNotes is an ultra-ergonomic, productivity-boosting notetaking app for Windows. It will help you collect, organize, and find any information.

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