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Elephant

Elephant is a notetaker with a classic interface you already know. Created by jusu

Free Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux

Elephant is a notetaker with a classic interface you already know.

Keep your notes to yourself. No accounts or clouds. For syncing use Dropbox, Github, rsync, ...

No feature bloat or redesigns, ever.

Elephant stores notes in plain files and folders. No databases and no migration.

Cross-platform for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Built for longevity with a classic interface. New versions will never offer weird functionality. There will never be a chat feature and it will never show stuff from Financial Times. More Info »

Premium is free, no ads. Open source.

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Features

MarkDown support Works Offline Portable Save as txt Add a feature

Category

Office & Productivity

Tags

markdown markdown-support note-organizer note-taking notebook notepad offline-access portable save-as-txt

Elephant was added by jusujusu in Dec 2014 and the latest update was made in Mar 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Aug 2018 There is a history of all activites on Elephant in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Elephant or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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