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nvALT

A fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to nvALT

nvALT
Notational Velocity Simplenote Standard Notes Joplin FSNotes Cryptee Zettlr Zim Wiki Logseq wikidPad

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to nvALT are Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Standard Notes. 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. Notational Velocity: modeless, mouseless Mac OS X note-taking application
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #Note Taking #Todos 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

    #Project Management #Task Management #Note Taking 83 social mentions

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

    #Notes #Private Journal #Personal Notes 130 social mentions

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    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

    #Notes #Note Taking #Todos 356 social mentions

  5. File system notes manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Knowledge Management #Notes #Note Taking 22 social mentions

  6. 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)

    #Text Editors #Cloud Storage #Photos 79 social mentions

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    Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Markdown Editor 10 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

    #WiKis #Task Management #Note Taking 120 social mentions

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

    #Knowledge Management #Notes #Note Taking 292 social mentions

  10. 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

    #Task Management #Notes #Note Taking 18 social mentions

  11. Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Notes #Note Taking #Todos 116 social mentions

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

    #Notes #Note Taking #Todos 6 social mentions

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