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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Roam Research

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Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Roam Research are Logseq, Notion, and Joplin. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. 1
    Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 281 social mentions

  2. 2
    All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #Work Collaboration #Note Taking 439 social mentions

  3. 3
    Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Note Taking #Notes #Personal Notes 350 social mentions

  4. a non-linear personal web notebook
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Personal Knowledge Base 182 social mentions

  5. A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Notes #Personal Notes #Private Journal 128 social mentions

  6. 6
    Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Markdown Editor #Knowledge Management 10 social mentions

  7. 7
    Personal knowledge management and sharing on VSCode & GitHub
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions

  8. 8
    A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Markdown Editor #Text Editors #Markdown Viewer 84 social mentions

  9. Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions

  10. 10

    Mem

    Capture and access information from anywhere
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #Task Management #Note 6 social mentions

  11. 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.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 116 social mentions

  12. Jot down quick notes and auto-save them with QuickJots. Use GitHub Flavoured Markdown to easily embed images, or even task-lists to track to-dos. It's private — all notes stay local; no login or downloads are needed. There's a dark mode too!
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Markdown Editor

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