The Guide Alternatives

The Guide is described as 'Two-pane outliner - a program that allows you to arrange text notes in a tree-like structure. It supports formatted text, exporting to RTF and hyperlinks (both internal and external)' and is an app in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to The Guide for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, iPhone and Android apps. The best The Guide alternative is Notesnook, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like The Guide are Zim, Trilium Notes, CherryTree and TagSpaces.

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  1. Notebook PEA icon
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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Notes Foss icon
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    Notes is an open source and cross-platform note-taking app that is both beautiful and powerful.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Snapcraft
     
  3. Notebooks icon
     33 likes

    Extensive platform with Markdown editing, document linking, format conversion, task management, and focus-enhancing layout options. Supports Wiki and Zettelkasten functions.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Growly Notes icon
     11 likes

    Growly Notes is a note-taking app somewhat like Microsoft OneNote . Gather text, images, links and anything else you can think of in free-form pages organized into sections.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Stagsi icon
     8 likes

    Hackable SQLite-based tagging, any file format, with scripts and C# plugins, powerful search query language, 100k+ files managed with ease.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. TakeNote icon
     5 likes

    TakeNote was made by developers for developers - a simple, plain-text note-taking app for the web with Markdown support. What you see is what you paste. No WYSIWIG, no formatting pasted from the web, and no features you don't need or want.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. Spiral icon
     6 likes

    Spiral is a program that allows users to take notes in a format similar to a spiral notebook. Unlike traditional word processors and text editors that are configured in a way that makes it difficult to document things in a non-linear fashion, Spiral pages allow users to click...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. ThinkComposer icon
     40 likes

    Create deep visual documents, adaptable and multi-level diagrams, flowcharts, concept maps, mind maps and models.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. MemoMaster icon
     10 likes

    MemoMaster is a free outliner software to create, administer and reference texts and calculations in the familiar tree structure. It enables intuitive searching, browsing, and organization of information.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Flashnote icon
     16 likes

    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.

    188 Flashnote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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