Evernote - Bring your life's work together in one digital workspace. Evernote is the place to collect inspirational ideas, write meaningful words, and move your important projects forward.
Journaley - A simple and elegant open-source journal keeping software for Windows compatible with Day One
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.
Daybook - Daybook is an application that allows you to record activities, experiences, thoughts, and entire ideas throughout a day and protect all of your information with a strong password.
Google Keep - Capture notes, share them with others, and access them from your computer, phone or tablet. Free with a Google account.
Jot+ Notes - Jot+ Notes is a software that acts as a text compressor, offering you to compose, arrange and manage notes, recipes collection, work records, contacts, to-do lists, addresses, and personal information.