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


KleverNotes is a note-taking and management application for your mobile and desktop devices. It uses Markdown and allows you to preview your content.




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Flashnote is a quick notes manager created for such cases. When you need a rough copy to save or to process some pieces of a text, Flashnote is small, quick and convenient. Press the shortcut-key combination and a rough copy is on the screen in a flash of a second.

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Write beautifully. Organize easily. Find everything. Fuss free writing. Saves notes as RTF files on user specified folder. Can search across all notes. No sign up/log in required. Portable application.



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