Safe Notes is a security project aimed at providing an encrypted, private note manager that works locally and protects notes from various threat actors.




Notesnook is described as 'Fully open-source, end-to-end encrypted notes with device-based security, secure sync, offline access, powerful editor, vault, backups, and exports' and is a very popular Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Notesnook for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Web-based, Linux and Android apps. The best Notesnook alternative is Obsidian, which is free. Other great apps like Notesnook are Joplin, Logseq, Anytype and Notion.
Safe Notes is a security project aimed at providing an encrypted, private note manager that works locally and protects notes from various threat actors.




MindForger is a modern, free, open-source, privacy-focused and performance-driven Markdown IDE for creating, editing, and managing all types of notes.



A simple personal knowledge platform with a focus on clean Markdown files, simple queries and a journal.




Noteship is a personal information manager that combines notes, todos, and reminders and is based on simple files and folders.






Protects your private notes with a password. Notebook PEA is a self-decrypting archive, that will never store unencrypted text on your disk.


Multi-platform outliner supporting text notes, hyperlinks, extensive import and export options, file attachments, printed output, note tagging, task management, spellchecking, audio notes, rich text editing, plugin and Lua scripting support, and multilingual features.


A collection of small, simple, single-task tools, mostly designed to help neurodivergent people with tasks they find overwhelming or difficult.




"Ultra Recall is personal information, knowledge, and document organizer software for Microsoft Windows.




HackFlowy is an open source clone of Workflowy, built using backbone.js and socket.io, with an option to easily deploy via Heroku.


Privacy Friendly Notes allows you to take and manage notes on Android devices. It belongs to the Privacy Friendly Apps group developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More information can be found an secuso.org/pfa


