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Noteshelf

Take beautiful handwritten notes or annotate PDFs on your iPad, and now even on your iPhone.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Noteshelf

Simplenote Zim Wiki TakeNote Joplin Saber: Handwritten Notes wikidPad Cryptee Basecamp Journal Orgzly

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Noteshelf are Simplenote, Zim Wiki, and TakeNote. 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. 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

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

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Text Editors

  4. 4
    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

  5. A (work-in-progress) cross-platform libre notes app. Please note that this app is still in early stages and not ready to trust with your notes yet.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Todos 1 social mentions

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. A simple and elegant project management system.
    Pricing:
    • Paid
    • Free Trial
    • $99.0 / Monthly (flat price)

    #Project Management #Productivity #Task Management 37 social mentions

  9. Organize all your ideas
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Journal #Note Taking #Journaling

  10. 10
    Outliner for notes, tasks and to-dos
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Office & Productivity 14 social mentions

  11. Manage your Notes from any Git Repo.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Personal Notes #Notes 23 social mentions

  12. 12
    A simple workspace to help you focus.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Tool #File Management 4 social mentions

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