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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Sidenotes

TakeNote Notion Simplenote Zim Wiki Joplin Cryptee QuickJots FSNotes Skiff Snipp.in

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Sidenotes are TakeNote, Notion, 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. A web-based note-taking app with GitHub sync and Markdown support.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Text Editors

  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. 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. 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

  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. 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

  7. Jot down quick notes and auto-save them with QuickJots. Use GitHub Flavoured Markdown to easily embed images, or even task-lists to track to-dos. It's private — all notes stay local; no login or downloads are needed. There's a dark mode too!
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Note Taking #Task Management #Markdown Editor

  8. File system notes manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Management #Notes 22 social mentions

  9. 9
    Simple & secure privacy-first notes and collaboration
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Web App #Productivity #Writing Tools 47 social mentions

  10. Lite weight in browser notes, snippet manager & code editor
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Todos #Task Management

  11. 11
    Monolog is a note-taking tool that is: a. native b. local-first c. supports backlinks
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #App #Backlinks #Note Taking

  12. Notabase is a powerful and easy-to-use note-taking app for networked thinking. Connect your ideas together and write more effortlessly.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial

    #Notes #Note Taking #Personal Knowledge Base 8 social mentions

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