Simple delightful note taking, with none of the lock-in. You already have a tool that backs up and syncs your data (be it Dropbox, iCloud, Seafile or whatever). You already have a text editor on your desktop, your laptops, your phone and that tablet you've forgotten about. This demo uses zsh, vim and dropbox, but don't panic, that's just me. notes will work just fine with whatever other text editor, shell and syncing solution you feel like. 

notes - Simple delightful note taking, with more unix and less lock-in

Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. 
 
This tool can be used to keep track of TODO lists or ideas, to take notes during a meeting or to draft any other kind of text (blog entries, important mails, etc.).

Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Zim can be used to Keep an archive of notes, 


Zim - A Desktop Wiki

wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. It can cross link your information. It features  include auto-completion, outline views, incremental search, easy source code navigation. IDE's that provide these features can greatly increase developer productivity.

 wikidPad - Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts and ideas

NoteLab is an advanced digital notebook, specifically designed for tablet computers. With its stroke smoothing, anti-aliasing, and smart rendering, NoteLab provides a beautiful and powerful note taking environment on any operating system.

NoteLab - Digital Note 

Notational Velocity is a modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application. The window was designed for keyboard input above all else, and thus has no buttons. There is no manual "saving" in Notational Velocity; all modifications take effect immediately. Synchronize natively with Simplenote, or via files in Dropbox with PlainText, Elements, iA Writer, and other iOS apps. All content is compressed and encrypted (enabled optionally) before it is recorded to disk.

Notational Velocity - Modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application

Standard Notes is the 100 year notes app. It's built long-lasting so you never have to find another one. It syncs on all your devices. It encrypts your data to protect your privacy. And it backs up your notes so you never lose anything again. 
 
Standard Notes comprises of two main technologies that work together to ensure a private, secure experience. One is the core stack of Standard Notes client applications. On the other end is a simple framework called Standard File used for encrypting data locally and syncing it to the cloud.

Standard Notes is the 100 year notes app. It's built long-lasting so you never have to find another one. It syncs on all your devices. It encrypts your data to protect your privacy. And it backs up your notes so you never lose anything again. 

Standard Notes - Your notes for good

OpenBoard is an open source cross-platform interactive white board application designed primarily for use in schools. It was originally forked from Open-Sankoré, which was itself based on Uniboard.  It is a tool that can help you do your job and does not get in the way. Use a pen tablet, an interactive whiteboard or even a mouse to write and annotate your course. 

OpenBoard - Interactive whiteboard for schools and universities

RedNotebook is a modern journal, It lets you format, tag and search your entries. You can also add pictures, links and customizable templates, spell check your notes, and export to plain text, HTML or LaTeX. 

RedNotebook - A Cross-Platform Diary and Journal

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.
 
Its features: 
<ul>
<li>rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, subscript, superscript, monospace)</li>
<li>syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages</li>
<li>images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file</li>
<li>embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk</li>
<li>multi-level lists handling (bulleted, numbered, to-do and switch between them, multiline with shift+enter)</li>
<li>simple tables handling (cells with plain text), cut/copy/paste row, import/export as csv file</li>
<li>codeboxes handling: boxes of plain text (optionally with syntax highlighting) into rich text, import/export as text file</li>
<li>execution of the code for code nodes and codeboxes; the terminal and the command per syntax highlighting&nbsp;is configurable in the preferences dialog</li>
<li>alignment of text, images, tables and codeboxes (left/center/right/fill)</li>
<li>hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders)</li>
<li>spell check (using gspell)</li>
<li>intra application copy/paste: supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables</li>
<li>cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables</li>
<li>copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text</li>
<li>print &amp; save as pdf file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree</li>
<li>export to html of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree</li>
<li>export to plain text of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree</li>
<li>toc generation for a node / node and subnodes / the whole tree, based on headers h1, h2 and h3</li>
<li>find a node, find in selected node, find in selected node and subnodes, find in all nodes</li>
<li>replace in nodes names, replace in selected node, replace in selected node and subnodes, replace in all nodes</li>
<li>iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting</li>
<li>import from html file, import from folder of html files</li>
<li>import from plain text file, import from folder of plain text files</li>
<li>import from basket, cherrytree, epim html, gnote, keepnote, keynote, knowit, mempad, notecase, rednotebook, tomboy, treepad lite, tuxcards, zim</li>
<li>export to cherrytree file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree</li>
<li>password protection (using http://www.7-zip.org/) – NOTE: while a cherrytree password protected document is opened, an unprotected copy is extracted to a temporary folder of the filesystem; this copy is removed when you close cherrytree</li>
<li>tree nodes drag and drop</li>
<li>automatic link to web page if writing the URL</li>
<li>automatic link to node if writing node name surrounded by [[node name]]</li>
</ul>

A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

CherryTree - A hierarchical note taking application

Civilizer is a note taking or personal knowledge management application that helps you efficiently manage your personal data/knowledge/idea etc. However, it has many advanced features to let you efficiently create your note/memo and organize and search them. It supports most of major Web browsers. 

Civilizer - Cleverly manage your data/knowledge/idea

NixNote is an free, open source program designed to help you take notes and stay organized. You can create text notes, attach files or images, and enen synchronize with Evernote so you can have your notes whevere you go.

Nixnote - A clone of Evernote for Linux

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