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An awesome list of note taking applications on desktop.

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↑ Free↑ Freemium

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↑ Freemium

  • Appflowy

    Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.

  • Cinta Notes

    Full text search, Notebooks

  • DEVONthink

    Mac or iPhone app with lots of features that can handle many files.

  • Evernote

    An (online) app designed for note-taking, organizing, task management, and archiving of different formats.

  • HackMD

    HackMD helps developers write better documents and build active communities with open collaboration.

  • inkdrop

    An (online) app for organizing Markdown notes.

↑ Free

  • Athens

    knowledge graph for research and notetaking. Athens is open-source, private, extensible, and community-driven. (No longer maintained)

  • Calculist

    the open source thinking tool for problem solvers.

  • Cherrytree

    A hierarchical note-taking app, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting.

  • CodiMD

    Realtime collaborative markdown notes.

  • Dendron

    Local-first, markdown based, hierarchical built on top of VSCode and friends.

  • Foam

    Personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub.

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