Note-taking & writing apps
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| Name | Info | Tables? | Platform | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AllMyNotes Organizer | Gaudy UI. | (Win, paid) | https://allmynotes.vladonai.com/ | |
| AM-Notebook | ‘multi-featured personal information manager’. Nice, but I don't need the calendar, contacts and to-do tabs. | (Win, paid) | https://www.aignes.com/notebook.htm | |
| Apple Notes | ||||
| Bear | ||||
| Box Notes | Sort of like a cross between using Dropbox Paper & Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, etc.) as a note-taking app. Has a free plan. | https://www.box.com/ | ||
| Carnet | ||||
| CintaNotes | No | Windows | http://cintanotes.com/ | |
| Clickup | Way too complicated and full of sales stuff for my purposes. | Web, Mobile | https://clickup.com/ | |
| Cling | https://cling.com/en/login.html | |||
| Code Notes | A simple code snippet manager for developers built with Electron & Vue.js | |||
| CoderNotes | ||||
| Dabble | ‘Dabble - Craft your story. The online/offline cloud-based writing tool. Dabble is an easy-to-use online writing tool, packed with helpful features that allows beginning novelists and published authors to create amazing stories.Like Scrivener. Minus the Learning Curve.’ | https://www.dabblewriter.com/ | ||
| Document Node | Very interesting writing and publishing tool. Good Markdown editor, including table editor. | Yes | ||
| Dropbox Paper | I am really trying to make it work, since I am quite heavily invested in Dropbox already (since it's the only cloud sync solution with decent delta sync. However, so far the UI seems pretty disjointed. | |||
| Dynalist | similar to Workflowy | https://dynalist.io/ | ||
| Epsilon Notes | ||||
| Evernote | Not perfect, but still the best note-taking solution available at the moment, in terms of all the things that it can do. Free-form (hierarchical) folders would be very welcome though. I hate being forced to structure everything using only Stacks and (un-nestable) Notebooks. | Yes | Web, Mac/Windows, Andoid/iOS | https://evernote.com/ |
| Google Drive | Google Drive = Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Forms, etc. Use Google Drive interface (web, Android) as your note folder system, and created notes as Google Docs, Sheets, etc. | Web, Mobile | https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive | |
| Google Keep | No formatting or tables! Also no folders. Only tags.
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No | ||
| Journey | ||||
| Joplin | I had decided on Joplin as my main note-taking app, but then tried to edit a long (markdown) table or to-do list on my Android phone. Not a great experience, to say the least. | Desktop, Android | https://joplinapp.org/ | |
| OneNote | just don’t like it. the UI design, and specifically the stupid idea of notebooks > sections, etc., is just a mess | |||
| Roam Research | ||||
| KeyNote NF | (Win, free) | |||
| Leanote | Chinese | https://leanote.com/ | ||
| Manuskript | Open-source tool for writers. With outliner, character management, plot development, distraction-free editor, etc. | http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/ | ||
| Microsoft OneNote | Windows, Android, Web | |||
| Microsoft Windows Journal | ||||
| MyInfo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyInfo | |||
| My Notes Keeper | ‘free-form notes/outliner application’. Highly recommended. Quality Chinese software. | Windows | http://www.mynoteskeeper.com/ | |
| Notion | Desktop, Web, Mobile | https://www.notion.so/ | ||
| Novlr | ||||
| Nimbus Note | Pages/documents load a little slow, but actually a very interesting, comprehensive note-taking solution. See e.g.: “But now after a month, I'm so fed up with this shit. Nimbus Note is really, really, really slow. Not the app itself, but the servers. It takes a good 30 seconds to switch between simple notes which is just unacceptable." (https://alternativeto.net/software/nimbus-note/reviews/) | https://nimbusweb.me/note.php | ||
| Notebooks | You can create Markdown tables, or copy/paste in a table from e.g. Word/Evernote, but you can't actually edit the rich text table. You can edit the markdown table though. | No, not really | ||
| Notes | ||||
| Nuclino | Minimalist wiki. OK, but am not a real fan of the UI. Multiplatform. | https://nuclino.com/ | ||
| Okular | ||||
| Open-Sankoré | ||||
| Personal Knowbase | ‘free-form text database and note organizer software’. Strange. | |||
| QOwnNotes | ||||
| Qiqqa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiqqa | |||
| Quip | Supports cool stuff, like good tables and formatting but is very business oriented (teams, collaboration, work chat, etc.), which isn’t really my cup of tea. | https://quip.com/ | ||
| Boostnote | ||||
| Scrivener | https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/ | |||
| Simplenote | No | https://simplenote.com/ | ||
| Stackedit | ||||
| Synology Note Station | ||||
| TagSpaces | ||||
| TiddlyWiki | ||||
| Typora | ||||
| TreeDBNotes | Seems to be dead now. | https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/treedbnotes-free.htm-0 | ||
| Tomboy | Cross-platform (Mono/GTK+) | |||
| Ulysses | Mac | |||
| WhizFolders | ‘list-based Outliner and Organizer for all your notes, ideas and writing projects’. Tested. Too much distracting stuff. | (Win, paid) | https://whizfolders.com/ | |
| Wiznote | “Leave Brain for Thinking, Let WizNote to Remember.” | Chinese | https://www.wiz.cn/ | |
| Workflowy | https://workflowy.com/ | |||
| Ultra Recall | ||||
| Zim | ||||
| Zoho Notebook | Pretty good. Just wish there would be a better way to always show folders/notes in list view. | https://www.zoho.com/notebook/ |