Xournal++
Okular
xournal
Obsidian.md
Logseq
OneNote
Notesnook
Excalidraw
Flashnote
Tot
CherryTree
Notepin
Rebel Notes
EssentialPIM
Bundled
Task Coach
Xournal++Xournal++ is recommended for students, educators, researchers, and anyone in need of a reliable tool for digital note-taking, annotating PDFs, or creating handwritten notes in a digital format.
Used my laptop, a small wacom tablet, and this program to replace all my engineering notes this semester. No more scanning to upload, re-drawing plots, re-writing equations, printing assignments, or heavy binder to carry around.
Based on our record, Xournal++ seems to be a lot more popular than Flashnote. While we know about 55 links to Xournal++, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Flashnote. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I tried a whole bunch of the these apps, and I decided that Xournal++ [1] is better than Rnote for note taking. However, I have used Openboard [2] for teaching online since 2020. I agree that Rnote's smoothing is better, but it's tool selection UX is terrible. There are three different bars (top, bottom, and side), and you often need to move your mouse/hand to all of them across the screen in order to select the... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I've been using Xournalpp[1] for many years, highlighting books as I read them, adding in text/hand drawn annotations in whitespaces if necessary. Unlike other PDF readers/annotators, it saves a separate file, so the original PDF is untouched. It can also export the annotated PDF as a new PDF with highlights and annotations. Obsidian[2] also has PDF support, where you can open a markdown document side by side with... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Currently, I am trying to build a small open source NLP project for which I first find text on a page and then translate it; see the current project state here: https://github.com/PellelNitram/xournalpp_htr. The purpose of this project is to make handwritten text in Xournal++ searchable for all users. Source: almost 3 years ago
On Linux, Xournal++ is the best thing that can do inking. https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp. Source: over 3 years ago
First of all, I don't want to install Latex, but since my note taking app requires it, I feel like I don't have any alternative. I was wondering if I needed to download TexLive or if there were any other options for me. I am taking physics notes and I don't want anything other than basic text editing (superscript, subscript, symbols for physics equations and basic math stuff), is there a way I don't have to... Source: over 3 years ago
Flash notes is the best note tool out there. Subsections like tabs, auto saving non stop and backing up , truly the best way to take notes fast http://softvoile.com/flashnote/. Source: over 3 years ago
This morning I pressed a hotkey, typed a thought, pressed the same hotkey and kept doing what I was doing. I didn't have to even look to type that info. Flashnote makes that possible. Source: about 5 years ago
Okular - Okular is a universal document viewer based developed by KDE.
Tot - Convert any text into a Trello task
xournal - Lightweight notetaking and sketching app.
CherryTree - A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.
Obsidian.md - 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.
Notepin - Extremely simple note-taking + blogging โ๏ธ
