Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Wine




Ghostnote is described as 'Adds contextual notes to almost anything on your mac. Add notes & todos to folders, applications, open documents, even websites. Think about it as post-it-notes for your OS' and is a Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Ghostnote for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Ghostnote alternative is Raindrop.io, which is free. Other great apps like Ghostnote are Notesnook, Zim, CherryTree and TagSpaces.




Instantly link and access files, emails, web pages, notes and tasks using contextual bookmarks, with robust, shareable links, bidirectional notes, deep linking within PDFs, Markdown support, URL clean-up, and all bookmarks stored privately on your Mac.



Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible.

Jarnal is an open-source application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal, making a presentation, annotating a document - including pdf - or collaborating using a stylus, mouse or keyboard. It is similar to Microsoft .

This simple productivity app allows you to log all of the tasks you need to complete for the day within Notification Center.




nvPY is a note-taking tool inspired by Notational Velocity, nvALT and ResophNotes. It syncs with simplenote, and runs on Linux, Windows and OSX.

Take simple text notes. You can put them into folders to create your own quick, easy and robust file structure.



Remember The Task is a light-weight ToDo application that allows you to maintain a list of tasks to be done. It Syncs with Remember The Milk so you can manage your tasks on the go using RTM.

MixNote is a mobile note taking app, like a memo pad or notepad. Take note of every deserved thing, with text, ToDo, voice and picture.




Full-featured, cross-platform note-taking and note management tool with advanced collaboration and editing features to let you work with multiple notes at the same time.




Wieldy is a free to-do list manager that is based on the principles of GTD (Getting Things Done). It allows you to manage your to-dos in a simple but effective way. To-dos can be created as thoughts and actions, which can then be assigned to the Next Action, Today, or Someday...



Momento is a unique diary/journal writing app for iPhone & iPod touch, which provides a quick and easy way to record moments throughout your day. Connect with popular social web services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Last.



