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Leanote

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Leanote provides services for note and blog. You can use "note" as your personal notebook, if you want to share with friends, just publish note or notebook to the blog.

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License model

  • FreemiumOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • Self-Hosted
Discontinued

The project and the apps are no longer available since 2021

3 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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4comments
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Features

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  1.  Support for MarkDown
  2.  Portable
  3.  Full-Text Search
  4.  Sequence Diagrams
  5.  Export to PDF
  6.  Export to HTML
  7.  LaTeX Math
  8.  Nested Notebooks

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Spout
Mar 27, 2022
1

website not available. don't know if permanent or temporary.

Vitaliy K.
Dec 6, 2018
1

I'd love to test the app but how am I supposed to install it (on Linux)? Not a single word on the app page nor by searching google. Rated 3 stars for lack of installation guide.

Guest
May 16, 2017
0

Most stable and advanced self-hosted note app

John Fastman
Jan 8, 2017
8

An interesting Evernote alternative. Open source, works on Mac, Windows and Linux (Evernote has no Linux support). Leanote seems to be two things: Leanote.com (a service) and Leanote.org (where you can get the open source software). The software downloads include clients (used to access the server), and the server software. The latter means that you should be able to - at least in principle - host your own installation of Leanote.

English instructions/information can be hard to find/navigate because they are interwoven with a lot of stuff in Chinese. For example, for the service (.com) you'd be uploading your private notes and other data to the Leanote.com server. What is the privacy policy? How is my data stored? Which laws apply to it? Do I retain ownership? I could find nothing.

I tested the client with the freemium .com service. On that side, this software seems very advanced and full of easy-to-use functionality. As with Evernote, which this is clearly intended to compete with, Leanote supports creating notes that can be organized using notebooks and tags, that you can search and attach files to, insert and resize pictures within, and share. It is similar in its philosophy to Paperwork, except that you can access Leanote via the browser or via a client. I prefer the latter and the lack of a client is Paperworks' downfall.

However, there is no web browser plugin, or client-side encryption.

Perhaps this is possible, but my preference would have been that data is saved locally and that I could then use a sync service of my choice to transfer the saved data between computers. No service, no complications with setting/maintaining up my own servers.

Leanote seems very promising though. But, because of the encryption, the Android app and the browser plugin, I still prefer Turtl.

What is Leanote?

Leanote provides services for note and blog. You can use "note" as your personal notebook, if you want to share with friends, just publish note or notebook to the blog.

The code of Leanote can be found on Github but you have to pay to get the app from the official website, hence this freemium license.

  • Note

    • Ace editor in normal note
    • Stackedit editor in markdown note
    • Rich Text editor
    • Document navigation
    • Writing mode only shows tool bar
    • Multiple kinds of Code highlight in Normal note
    • Two kinds of screen in Markdown: Dual screen for real time preview Single screen for writing
    • Image management in Markdown note
    • Collaboration, share note to target group
  • Blog

    • Publish note
    • Communicate with friends
    • Custom domain name for premium user

Official Links

Leanote information

  • Developed by

    Tie Li
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription that costs $0 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Chinese

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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Leanote, and it has gotten 50 likes

Leanote was added to AlternativeTo by yicky on Jan 31, 2015 and this page was last updated Jul 19, 2023.