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Day One

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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Day One

Journal Joplin Simplenote Open Live Writer Cryptee Bangle.io Boostnote Zim Wiki Leanote TakeNote

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Day One are Journal, Joplin, and Simplenote. 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. Organize all your ideas
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Journal #Note Taking #Journaling

  2. 2
    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

  3. 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

  4. Open Live Writer makes it easy to write, preview, and post to your blog.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Journal

  5. Cryptee is a safety and privacy focused, encrypted and cross-platform personal data storage service. You can write personal documents, notes, journals, store photos and all sorts of other files.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • €3.0 / Monthly (10GB)

    #Photos #Note Taking #Cloud Storage 79 social mentions

  6. Bangle.io is an easy-to-use and powerful online application that you can use to take notes and locally save Markdown files.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Office & Productivity #Word #Note Taking 8 social mentions

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

    #Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions

  8. 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

  9. Leanote provides services for note and blog.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Journal

  10. A web-based note-taking app with GitHub sync and Markdown support.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Text Editors

  11. 11
    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

  12. Habitica is a free habit building and productivity application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Habit Building #Productivity #Todos 104 social mentions

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