Top 12 products relevant to Note Taking, Notes, and Knowledge Base

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.

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

Open Source free

Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.

Open Source

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.

Open Source freemium $5.0 / Monthly (Custom domain name for publishing.)

Manage your Notes from any Git Repo.

Open Source

myBase is a powerful yet easy-to-use knowledge management software that allows you to save and organize all your information in one place.

Tiddloid is an app to work with locally stored TiddlyWikis.

Onetastic is a free (with limited functionality) multi-purpose addin for Microsoft OneNote. A Pro version is available for $15 on up to two PCs for one user.

Organize, relate, and discover everything in your life on your knowledge graph, all in one workspace.

Linked Notes is a Wiki style notepad for your desktop computer.

Social Zettelkasten where you publish and discover notes and articles.

Muenzo is a visual note-taking app to capture ideas, organize thoughts and bring your creativity to life, an offline and powerful alternative to Miro and Milanote.

freemium $49.0 / One-off ("1 device")