Open Source Note-Taking Apps
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View 152 business solutionsBrowse free open source Note-Taking apps and projects below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Note-Taking apps by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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Auth0 for AI Agents now in GAConnect your AI agents to apps and data more securely, give users control over the actions AI agents can perform and the data they can access, and enable human confirmation for critical agent actions.
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Cloud tools for web scraping and data extractionAutomate web data collection with cloud tools that handle anti-bot measures, browser rendering, and data transformation out of the box. Extract content from any website, push to vector databases for RAG workflows, or pipe directly into your apps via API. Schedule runs, set up webhooks, and connect to your existing stack. Free tier available, then scale as you need to.
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Skim
A PDF Reader and Note-taker for OS X
Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file. Skim requires OS X 10.10 or higher. -
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A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.
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GloboNote
Create sticky notes, to-do list, journals & reminders all in one app
GloboNote is a free and easy to use desktop note taking application. It lets you create sticky notes, to-do lists, journals, reminders and other notes in one place. There are no limits to the number of sticky notes you can create. Notes can be organize by groups and search using the search tool. GloboNote can be run in any OS that has Java 8 installed. -
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Makagiga
To-do manager, notepad, RSS reader...
Makagiga is an open-source, easy-to-use, portable application for doing a variety of tasks, such as todo listing, text editing, or RSS reading. Plugins are used to implement its various capabilities. -
Deliver trusted data with dbtData teams use dbt to codify business logic and make it accessible to the entire organization—for use in reporting, ML modeling, and operational workflows.
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Old Win32 Notepad
Old Windows Notepad remake
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Hypernomicon
Hypertext-infused philosophy personal database software
Hypernomicon is a personal productivity/database application for researchers that combines structured note-taking, mind-mapping, management of files (e.g., PDFs) and folders, and reference management into an integrated environment that organizes all of the above into semantic networks or hierarchies in terms of debates, positions, arguments, labels, terminology/concepts, and user-defined keywords by means of database relations and automatically generated hyperlinks (hence ‘Hyper’ in the name). Hypernomicon keeps track of all these things in a highly structured, thoroughly indexed and user friendly relational database, automatically generates semantic hyperlinks between all of them, and presents this information in many different forms so that you are constantly informed of ways all of your information is related that you had not realized. -
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Lifeograph
Advanced personal note taking application
Lifeograph is a diary program to take personal notes on life. It has all essential functionality expected in a diary program and strives to have a clean and streamlined user interface. -
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FreeplaneGTD+
Freeplane add-on for task management and memo taking
Freeplane is a widely used mind mapping tool. GTD is a time management methodology by David Allen. Freeplane GTD is an addon, that can collect tasks specified in a mindmap, thus allowing the users of Freeplane to use the concepts of GTD in their mind -
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Notepad X is an alternative open source text editor for Microsoft Windows, with a lot of customization options created to help users managing text documents featuring tab navigation.
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Top Corporate LMS for Training | Best Learning Management SoftwareAxis LMS enables you to deliver online and virtual learning and training through a scalable, easy-to-use LMS that is designed to enhance your training, automate your workflows, engage your learners and keep you compliant.
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PASTE
An app for storing code, text & more. A popular Open Source pastebin.
Paste is a PHP application for storing code, text and more. DEMO: https://paste.boxlabs.uk/ Initially forked from the freely available source pastebin.com used before the domain was sold in 2010, lots of improvements have been included over the years such as user accounts and a featureful administration backend. See https://github.com/boxlabss/PASTE/blob/master/docs/CHANGELOG.md -
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NoteLab is an advanced "digital notebook" specifically designed for tablet computers. With its stroke smoothing, antialiasing, and "smart rendering," NoteLab provides a beautiful and powerful note taking environment on any operating system.
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Stupid Notepad
The Simplest Notepad Ever
Stupid Notepad - The Simplest Notepad Ever! It's simply impossible to come up with something simpler. The program allows you to edit text files. You enter the path to the file and can view and edit it, as well as create new files. Why is this notepad stupid? Because it's extremely simple and primitive, making it understandable for everyone! The interface consists of just seven elements: - Text field for entering the file path; - "Browse..." button; - "Open" button; - "New" button; - "Save" button; - Text field for viewing and editing the file's text; - "Exit" button. This is my first even slightly useful Python program, so I'd be grateful if you'd test it and see if this stupid notepad proves useful! Stupid Notepad is an open source project. You can read the code in "Stupid Notepad.py" in this folder or visit GitHub: github.com/artemik01/stupid-notepad -
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SafeNotes - Encrypted Journaling
SafeNotes - A encrypted and easy-to-use journaling application
SafeNotes is an encrypted and user-friendly note-taking application designed to keep your personal notes and journal entries safe and organized. With SafeNotes, you can easily create, edit, and manage your notes, all while ensuring your data is protected through robust AES-256 encryption and password hashing. The app features a sleek and intuitive interface built with MaterialSkin, offering light and dark themes to suit your preferences. SafeNotes is perfect for anyone looking to keep their notes and journal entries secure and organized. Download SafeNotes today and experience the peace of mind of knowing your personal information is safe. -
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Crispy Synced Notes
A note taking program with WebDAV sync
An note taking program with WebDAV sync capabilities. It works on a local (and WebDAV) directory and shows the items (text/image/binary) in a tree view. Any changes are reflected in the file system directly. Features: - group notes and images in a tree structure (using folders) - can work on any directory on your machine - technically works like a file browser with inline text editing - synchronizes with any WebDAV server (optionally using SSL/TLS) - allows one-way and two-way synchronization - allows to encrypt your files locally and remote using AES256 - multi language support You can obtain the full source code at: https://crispy-cow.de/git/CrispySyncNote.git Latest changes: 2.1.0: Updated for Java 9 and up 2.0.2: Added more UI translation, updated greek language (thanks to geogeo) 2.0.1: Bugfix: Sync state is now copied when duplicating workspace due to change in encryption settings -
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Simple Notepad
The easiest notepad
A simple notebook with which you can quickly create notes. -
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Docear
An Academic Literature Suite
Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley. -
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Piggydb
Piggydb helps you have more fun with knowledge creation.
Piggydb is a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input. You can begin with using it as a flexible outliner, diary or notebook, and as your database grows, Piggydb helps you to shape or elaborate your own knowledge. Piggydb is a Web application provided as a self-contained package that contains a Web server and database engine. With Piggydb, you can create highly structured content by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified using hierarchical tags. -
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rucola
Terminal based markdown note manager
Terminal-based markdown note manager to view statistics, explore connections and launch editing and viewing applications. -
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Boostnote is an open source note-taking app for programmers. Apps available for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. Built with Electron, React + Redux, Webpack and CSSModules.
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YSticky
A portable cross-platform sticky note application.
YSticky is a portable cross-platform reminder / sticky note application. It is very simple and its use recalls that of the real sticky notes in the following three steps: 1. create a new / take a note; 2. (re)edit it; 3. stick it. YSticky is developed in Java so needs the Java Virtual Machine (version 6 or higher) that, in the case, is very easy to download and install. It does not need installation since quickly creates and edits notes in the same directory of the executable. -
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QOwnNotes
Plain-text file notepad with markdown support and ownCloud integration
QOwnNotes is the open source (GPL) plain-text file notepad with markdown support and todo list manager for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that (optionally) works together with the notes application of ownCloud. Please visit the project webpage for downloading QOwnNotes. -
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Draft Notes
Grab screen areas and note it with a mouse, pen & keyboad quickly.
Especially for learners watching some lectures online or using video capturing devices. Grab screen areas with a click (or tap), automatically save it and allows adding notes on it using mouse, pen and keyboard - very quick (and draft). Then it is possible to view grabbed screenshots and annotate it additionally with the same set of tools, easy and convenient. May be help to somebody these sad days. -
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Ainee
Ainee - AI Notetaking and Learning Companion
Ainee is your ultimate AI-powered notetaking and learning companion. Capture lecture notes in real-time and effortlessly transform audio, text, files, and YouTube videos into formatted notes, mindmaps, quizzes, flashcards, podcasts, and more. Explore our AI meeting note taker, AI notes, video transcript generator, PDF to AI converter, and AI flashcard maker. Enhance your learning with our AI voice recorder, article summarizer AI, and AI quiz generator. Additionally, share your knowledge base with others to foster the flow of information and help new users benefit from collective insights. Experience smarter learning with Ainee today! How It Works - Effortless Knowledge Capture Across Formats - Enhance learning experience with AI-Driven Tools - Transform Study Materials into Dynamic Learning Formats - Share Insights and Knowledge Effortlessly -
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BoolHub
A fully functional personal information management software.
[Native application]: Developed with QT, pure native application, faster response; Cloud synchronization: Data is recorded in the cloud, and the data is no longer lost. Data synchronization is unlimited, everything is in your control; [Rich note types]: Support rich text, Markdown, code, tables, drawings, flowcharts and other note formats; [Manage your customers]: A customer relationship management system that supports team collaboration to grasp every lead and every customer; [Manage daily affairs]: Manage your affairs in an orderly manner through the feature-rich to-do list view; [Free without function limit]: There is no limit to the software functions, free to use, we are just to make a friend; [Different moods and different themes]: Notes and to-do lists, support a variety of exquisite themes, do whatever you want, change it if you want; [More application scenarios]: Memo view, timeline view, passwordbook view, statistics view to meet your different needs. -
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DaxonPad
Text editor from Daxon. Editor de texto de Daxon.
English: DaxonPad is a Notepad/Kate/Gedit style text editor for Linux that can allow to modify your .txt file including changing the background and text colour to changing the font and text size. Español DaxonPad es un editor de texto (estilo Bloc de notas (Windows)/Kate/Gedit) para Linux que te permite modificar el texto como cambiar los colores del fondo y del texto hasta cambiar la fuente y el tamaño.
