Joplin - 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.

Synology Note Station - Without needing to spend money on Evernote, Synology Note Station provides a desktop client to organize all your random notes in one place.

Day One - A simple journal application for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad. AboutTo learn more about Day One, see these two excellent reviews . PublishPublish is not available in Day One 2.

UpNote - A beautiful and clean cross-platform app for notes organizer

Reminisce Journal - Reminisce Journal is a free iOS and Android app that helps you to capture live moments, daily activities, thoughts, ideas and travel logs, etc.

Note Board - Productivity app. Save information like a sticky notes.