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An open protocol for per-user storage OWN YOUR DATA

RemoteStorage[1] is already a thing. I don't think anyone's made a full Word-style document editor for it yet, though.

[1]: https://remotestorage.io.

Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.

Disclaimer: Markdown Notes App Author

At least for simpler text documents, where formatting isn't a big concern, markdown seems to be wining as the standard. Sure, each of these have built on top of the markdown standard, but even those features are slowly getting quite standardized. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]

[0] https://obsidian.md

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A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

Disclaimer: Markdown Notes App Author

At least for simpler text documents, where formatting isn't a big concern, markdown seems to be wining as the standard. Sure, each of these have built on top of the markdown standard, but even those features are slowly getting quite standardized. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]

[0] https://obsidian.md

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Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.

Disclaimer: Markdown Notes App Author

At least for simpler text documents, where formatting isn't a big concern, markdown seems to be wining as the standard. Sure, each of these have built on top of the markdown standard, but even those features are slowly getting quite standardized. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]

[0] https://obsidian.md

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Manage your Notes from any Git Repo.

Disclaimer: Markdown Notes App Author

At least for simpler text documents, where formatting isn't a big concern, markdown seems to be wining as the standard. Sure, each of these have built on top of the markdown standard, but even those features are slowly getting quite standardized. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]

[0] https://obsidian.md

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Personal knowledge management and sharing on VSCode & GitHub

Disclaimer: Markdown Notes App Author

At least for simpler text documents, where formatting isn't a big concern, markdown seems to be wining as the standard. Sure, each of these have built on top of the markdown standard, but even those features are slowly getting quite standardized. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]

[0] https://obsidian.md

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Dendron is an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool built on top of VSCode. It supports all the usual features you would expect like tagging, backlinks, a graph view, split panes, and so forth.

Disclaimer: Markdown Notes App Author

At least for simpler text documents, where formatting isn't a big concern, markdown seems to be wining as the standard. Sure, each of these have built on top of the markdown standard, but even those features are slowly getting quite standardized. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6]

[0] https://obsidian.md

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