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Top 11 Open-Source Alternatives to Microsoft Office Lens

Vimwiki Simplenote Turtl wikidPad Joplin Org mode NotePlan Standard Notes Boostnote Zim Wiki

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Microsoft Office Lens are Vimwiki, Simplenote, and Turtl. 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. Vimwiki is a personal wiki for Vim – interlinked, plain text files written in a markup language.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Perosnal Wiki #Note Taking #Personal Productivity 17 social mentions

  2. 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

  3. 3
    The secure, collaborative notebook
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $3.0 / Monthly

    #Task Management #Note Taking #Team Collaboration 27 social mentions

  4. 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

  5. 5
    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

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

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

  7. Make plans inside an individual markdown note for every day in your calendar. Use it as a journal for your daily tasks and plan todos in advance. For Mac, iPhone and iPad.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Productivity #Todos 29 social mentions

  8. A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Security & Privacy #Notes #Personal Notes 128 social mentions

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

    #Note Taking #Todos #Notes 6 social mentions

  10. 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

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    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

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