zk Alternatives

zk is described as 'Plain text note-taking assistant meant for use alongside a separate text editor program' and is an app in the education & reference category. There are more than 25 alternatives to zk for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Linux, Windows, Android and Self-Hosted apps. The best zk alternative is Obsidian, which is free. Other great apps like zk are Logseq, Notesnook, Zettlr and Zim.

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  1. Roam Research icon
     58 likes

    As easy to use as a word document or bulleted list, and as powerful for finding, collecting, and connecting related ideas as a graph database. Collaborate with others in real time, or store all your data locally.

    174 Roam Research alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  2. Silverbullet icon
     17 likes

    Silver Bullet is an extensible, open source, personal knowledge management system. Indeed, that’s fancy talk for “a note-taking app with links.” However, Silver Bullet goes a bit beyond just that.

    76 Silverbullet alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. TiddlyRoam icon
     21 likes

    TiddlyRoam is your open source external brain. TiddlyRoam allows you to quickly create your own wiki. You can add fragments of thoughts and findings whenever they come to you. TiddlyRoam will link them and help you spot the patterns.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • Self-Hosted
    • TiddlyWiki
     
  4. nb icon
     8 likes

    CLI and local web plain text note-taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
     
  5. Zettel Notes icon
     8 likes

    Zettel notes provides seamless private zettelkasten and markdown note taking experience with synchronization. It is provided free of cost, without ads and with no hidden permissions. No user data is collected.

    31 Zettel Notes alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    • LineageOS
    • CyanogenMod
     
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    Zettel Notes vs zk Comments
    ngoomie
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    This is what I personally use in place of zk on mobile. It's missing its own in-built ability to generate random note IDs (if that's what kind of ID you use) but it otherwise does things like let you link between notes by ID instead of just filename.

    • Zettel Notes is Free and Proprietaryzk is Free and Open Source
    • Zettel Notes is Minimalistic, Lightweight and Privacy focusedzk is not according to our users
  6. Local and Anki-compatible note-taking tool based on TiddlyWiki.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. 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
     
  8. The Archive icon
     11 likes

    Fast & clean-looking note-taking app for macOS that helps writers write and think more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  9. Welcome to the homepage of the Zettelkasten (slip box) for your computer. This program is based on the working principle of Niklas Luhmann's famous Zettelkasten.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Fuzzynote icon
     2 likes

    Terminal-based, hyper-fast, CRDT-backed, collaborative note-taking tool Simple, powerful, extremely fast search. fzn is local-first; remote-second. It acts on local in-memory data, meaning no expensive I/O and native speeds.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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