xournal has been discontinued. One of the most popular alternatives is Notesnook, which is open source with a free version. Other popular alternatives are Foxit PDF Reader, Xournal++, Linwood Butterfly and OpenBoard Whiteboard. Note-taking Tools like xournal are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and the web.
Notetaking and blackboard replacement application. Inspired by Xournal. Written in C++/Qt for Linux / Windows. It has the ability to annotate PDF files and has a few other options (e.g. markdown support).
Gournal is a note-taking application written for usage on Tablet-PCs (such as the Toshiba M200)
NoteLab brings the power of digital note taking to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris.
Provides handwritten note-taking and drawing for Windows Tablet PCs, supporting stylus, pen, or mouse input. Allows creating, organizing, and searching notes, drawing shapes and lines, importing or exporting files, and is mainly used for personal or classroom notes.
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Pen Journal is made, to create Notes and Scripts, easily. Just write things down with your graphictablets pen (Stylus).
Journal, a Microsoft Garage project, is a Windows 10 app helping people who love to journal to evolve their ideas and express themselves quickly with the power of their digital pen.
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xnotes is a handwriting-first notebook for phones and tablets, built for pen and stylus. Write, sketch and annotate with pressure-sensitive, variable-width ink, and nothing you draw is ever flattened.
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GloboNote is a free and easy to use desktop note taking application. It helps you to create to-do lists, reminders and other notes in one place. There is no limit in the number of sticky notes you can create.
PDF Max is a desktop class PDF app for reading, annotating or signing PDF documents on your iPhone/iPad. Mark up documents with highlights and handwriting, insert texts and stamps, fill out, sign PDFs and even manipulate PDF pages.
Cardfile is a personal information manager, based on index cards, that was distributed with Microsoft Windows starting from the original version 1.01 until Windows NT 4.0 Server. Cardfile is also included with Windows 98 and Windows Millennium Edition, but has to be installed...
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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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Bamboo Paper, a seriously fun new app from Wacom, provides you with the ability to create virtual notebooks for your tablet, letting you share your ideas visually with handwritten notes, sketches or doodles.
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