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Vimwiki is a personal wiki for Vim – interlinked, plain text files written in a markup language.

Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Vimwiki

Joplin Zim Wiki Gollum Org mode Simplenote Notion Turtl wikidPad Logseq Trilium Notes

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Vimwiki are Joplin, Zim Wiki, and Gollum. 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. 1
    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

  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. 3
    Gollum is a simple wiki system built on top of Git
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Note Taking #Knowledge Base #WiKi 18 social mentions

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

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

  5. 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

  6. 6
    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

  7. 7
    The secure, collaborative notebook
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Freemium
    • Free Trial
    • $3.0 / Monthly

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

  8. 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

  9. 9
    Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 280 social mentions

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

    #Note Taking #Notes #Todos 113 social mentions

  11. Track your tasks and projects in a plain text file, todo.txt. A todo.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Task Management #Todos #Project Management 37 social mentions

  12. The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Notes #Note Taking #Todos 33 social mentions

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