Zim Alternatives

Zim is described as 'Brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type. Creating a new page is easy by either clicking on the "Create new note"' and is a leading Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Zim for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Zim alternative is Obsidian, which is free. Other great apps like Zim are Joplin, Anytype, Notion and CherryTree.

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Zim alternatives are mainly Note-taking Tools, but if you're looking for Todo List Managers or Task Management Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Mac and Android. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Zim.
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  1. MyNotex icon
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    MyNotex is a free software for Gnu/Linux useful to take and to manage textual notes, also a large number of them. Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  2. VoodooPad icon
     22 likes

    "VoodooPad is a place to write down your notes and thoughts. Plant ideas, images, lists and anything else you need to keep track of and VoodooPad will grow with you, without getting in the way. You can even drag and drop folders, images, applications, or URLs into VoodooPad...

    15 VoodooPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. OutWiker icon
     36 likes

    OutWiker is designed to store notes in a tree. Such programs are called "outliner", personal wiki, or tree-like editors. OutWiker's main difference from the other similar programs is keeping the tree of notes in the form of directories on disk, and encouraging...

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. Vimwiki icon
     7 likes

    Vimwiki is a personal wiki for Vim -- a number of linked text files that have their own syntax highlighting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  5. OrgPad icon
     3 likes

    Do you like to spend time figuring out how to use that overcomplicated tool? No? We don't like it too. We focus on minimalistic design. We do the heavy lifting for you. One example: we spend three days choosing colors that look great so you don't have to.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. ATWiki icon
     8 likes

    TiddlyWiki for Windows. A unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information. ATWiki is an independent project of TiddlyWiki.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. NoteCase Pro icon
     19 likes

    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.

    88 NoteCase Pro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Xfce
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • OpenBSD
    • OpenSolaris
     
  8. Your personal encyclopedia! Summarize any online content and save it to your knowledge base where it's automatically organized and interlinked for easy rediscovery.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
     
  9. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Mars Notebook icon
     17 likes

    This is the very useful tree-styled personal information manager. English, Russian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, German, Polish, French. You can use it every day as your assistant in your work and life. It always can be close to you - in system tray and ready to help. If you fo.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. NotesSync icon
     2 likes

    Notes Sync is the answer to your everyday note taking requirements. It comes with a feature to sync everything to the user's own Google Drive or Dropbox accounts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  12. KleverNotes icon
     2 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    • Linux Mobile
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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