Joplin's developers also released Android and iOS apps and command-line application as well. Joplin has been released as a desktop application for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Joplin is a free open-source note program that supports end-to-end encryption, note synchronization to online services and cloud-like NextCloud, WebDAV and OneDrive, importing Evernote notes and file formats, offline mode support, file attachment. TiddlyWiki supports encryption using Stanford JavaScript Crypto Library. TiddlyWiki has extensions for all the major browsers but more importantly, it works well with Beaker browser over Dat protocol. with few tweaks, you can use it as a todo list, effective project management tool and of course writing drafts and notes. TiddlyWiki is very rich in options, features, supported tools and environments, and its even developer's friendly. using it is very simple to download the HTML file, write and save the file.
TiddlyWiki is a single-file mode wiki application, It's tiny but very powerful, I had been using it over the years, and I can't yet find other alternatives like it.
Zim is supported by many Linux distros, and it has a Windows installation package, but unfortunately, it does not work on Mac OSX easily. It works the same as Wiki but on your desktop which makes it great to draft emails, articles, blog entries, take notes of lectures and meetings. Zim is an open-source desktop wiki application, Its perfect to take notes and organize them together as connect them to each other. It also provides a self-hosted web version. It works fine on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Laverna is an open source project released under MPL 2.0 license.
Laverna is a note-taking application offers many features despite it's simple user-interface as note synchronization and backup to Dropbox and remote services, markdown editing, distraction-free mode, todo notes, code highlighting, importing and exporting notes, and powerful encryption for notes. Turtle has powerful features as client-side encryption, markdown support, tagging, powerful search, sharing, browser extensions with clipboard support, TeX math support, file attachment, and RTL (Right-to-Left) support. It has Google Chrome and Firefox browsers extensions. It works fine with Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Turtle is an open source note-taking application, built to organize notes, passwords, bookmarks, and images. We have covered special note-taking styles and note-taking editors in this article: 12 Open source Free Note-taking Desktop Apps with Unique Features. We choose the notes with advanced and usable features as powerful encryption, cloud backup and synchronization, private note support, and multi-platform as it can run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.
There is free software with a set of features that can compete and win with a commercial solution.
You can then click anywhere in your notes and the audio that was recorded at the time of the note will play back.Note taking, is a daily requirement for most of us, however, finding a good solution that can compete with commercial ones is hard. This is great for note taking during a lecture or a meeting where you may want to refer to what was said later.Īfter you have taken your notes you can upload the handwritten notes as well as the audio that is tied to it to either a Mac or PC. The best feature of Livescribe is that you can record any sound that is going on around you while you are taking your notes and the smartpen will map the note taking with the sound. Livescribe is a paper/software hybrid that allows you take handwritten notes on special paper that takes “snapshops” of what you write.
Notebook also has a cool feature called “Multidex” which basically indexes all of your notes and even the changes you make to them allowing for an easier way to find notes that you may have forgotten about or “lost”. You can add charts and diagram’s to your Notebook notebooks and also “free hand” draw with some of the ink tools.