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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Bear

Simplenote Notion Joplin Logseq Dendron Notesnook Zim Wiki Boostnote FSNotes Org mode

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Bear are Simplenote, Notion, and Joplin. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Project Management 78 social mentions

  2. 2
    All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #Work Collaboration #Note Taking 438 social mentions

  3. 3
    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.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Note Taking #Notes #Todos 350 social mentions

  4. 4
    Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 280 social mentions

  5. 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.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • $5.0 / Monthly (Custom domain name for publishing.)

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Office & Productivity 21 social mentions

  6. Notesnook is a simple and private note taking app that keeps your notes organized and synced on your phone, tablet and computer.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $4.49 / Monthly (UI Themes & accents)

    #Notes #Personal Notes #Note Taking 84 social mentions

  7. Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #WiKi #Note Taking #Task Management 115 social mentions

  8. Boostnote is an open-source note-taking​ app.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions

  9. File system notes manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Notes 22 social mentions

  10. Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Task Management #Project Management #Note Taking 174 social mentions

  11. wikidPad is an application for storing thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else that user can think of to write down.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Task Management 17 social mentions

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    A fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Personal Notes 10 social mentions

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