simplenote-android VS xournalpp

Simplenote (version 150): keep notes, lists, ideas and more

Try Simplenote It has widget support & also FOSS. https://simplenote.com/

Case in point - here is something I found that I wrote to Simplenote in the middle of the night. I'm sure the dream I had made sense, but ... what?

I've used SimpleNote in the past, but switched to Google Keep a while back. But it does support Markdown and is available on most platforms.

I like simplenote's feature but its paid worth it tho https://simplenote.com/

Check https://simplenote.com - OpenSource , free and privacy friendly - Autosave feature - Sync with any device ( also have web version) - Go back in time , that one is life saver you can see the timeline of your note , list or whatever! ( it's like undo but more powerful) - Search ! By title or by content - Markdown support with links highlight and other small cool features

I use Simplenote(https://simplenote.com/) and I think it will do precisely what you're looking for.

I highly recommend Rnote to anyone on Linux that misses the "hodgepodge" notetaking of apps like OneNote. It works like a dream on touchscreens and drawing tablets, with a surprising amount of configuration under the hood.

Also worth noting is Xournal, an older but similar project: https://xournalpp.github.io/

I've been using Xournalpp[1] for many years, highlighting books as I read them, adding in text/hand drawn annotations in whitespaces if necessary. Unlike other PDF readers/annotators, it saves a separate file, so the original PDF is untouched. It can also export the annotated PDF as a new PDF with highlights and annotations.

Obsidian[2] also has PDF support, where you can open a markdown document side by side with the PDF to take notes as you read. I think it also lets you highlight the PDF itself.

Emacs I think has a similar feature, via plugins/org-mode(?) to the Obsidian setup.

And of course your typical PDF reader probably has support for highlighting PDFs too, but I find them clunky and they save by exporting a PDF, which can be a bit heavy-handed IMO compared to just saving the annotations/highlights as a separate file as Xournalpp does.

[1]: https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp/

Currently, I am trying to build a small open source NLP project for which I first find text on a page and then translate it; see the current project state here: https://github.com/PellelNitram/xournalpp_htr. The purpose of this project is to make handwritten text in Xournal++ searchable for all users.

[Xournal++](https://xournalpp.github.io/) is in my option the best handwritten note-taking software out there, because it has all the coolest features (like LaTeX snippets and shapes) and it's open source too, so make sure to check it out!