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KeyNote NF is a tabbed notebook application that includes a RichText editor, support for multi-level note organization, and strong encryption features. The project is hosted on GitHub and provides reference documentation and contact information for users.
Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source platform designed for knowledge management and collaboration. Users can download the application via the project's official GitHub releases page. The project maintains a public roadmap outlining future development plans, and is hosted on GitHub for community contribution.
Lokus is a note-taking application with editing capabilities, distributed under an FCL 1.0 license. It stores notes as markdown files locally on the device and is built with Tauri and Rust.
Mediawiki is a storage, design, or frontend resource for mockups, assets, UI tools, or web search.
Memos helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
NoteDiscovery is a lightweight, self-hosted note-taking application for writing, organizing and discovering notes. Notes are stored as plain markdown files in folders, and the project is released under an MIT license.
Org Roam is a rudimentary replica of the Roam note-taking tool, built to integrate with the Org-mode editing system. It is maintained as an open source project on GitHub under the org-roam organization.
Saber is a cross-platform open-source notes app built for handwriting, available across devices and syncing between them. It uses a dual-password system to protect notes and lets users store notes on the official server, another server or self-hosted.
Silicon helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
A Simplenote React client packaged in Electron, offered as the official Simplenote desktop app for Windows and Linux. The repository also serves the web client. Local development requires an existing account on the test server or production credentials.
Siyuan helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
Tolaria is a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux for managing markdown knowledge bases. Notes are plain markdown files with YAML frontmatter, and each vault is a git repository. The project describes itself as free and open source, with no accounts, subscriptions, or cloud dependencies.
Trilium helps clean, compare, sort, transform, count, or format text in the browser.
VNote is a free and open source note-taking application built with Qt. It combines note management with editing across several document formats, including Markdown, plain text, source code, mind maps and PDF. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS and requires Qt 6.
Web Clipper is the official Web Clipper extension for Obsidian. It lets users highlight and capture web content in a browser, and saved items are stored as durable Markdown files that can be read offline. It is available for Chromium-based browsers, Firefox, Safari and Edge.
Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking program with PDF annotation support, written in C++ with GTK3. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows 10 and supports pen input from devices such as Wacom tablets. The project offers paper backgrounds, drawing tools and shape drawing, and can follow links from a background PDF.
