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Top 23 note-taking Open-Source Projects
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Joplin
Joplin - the secure note taking and to-do app with synchronisation capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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logseq
A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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memos
An open source, lightweight note-taking service. Easily capture and share your great thoughts.
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siyuan
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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Laverna
Laverna is a JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor and encryption support. Consider it like open source alternative to Evernote.
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nb
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.
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app
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.
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QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
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Memex
Browser extension to curate, annotate, and discuss the most valuable content and ideas on the web. As individuals, teams and communities.
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archivy
Archivy is a self-hostable knowledge repository that allows you to learn and retain information in your own personal and extensible wiki.
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InfluxDB
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Project mention: Ask HN: What is your approach for managing personal digital assets? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-24
Logseq support via our Logseq Plugin
Project mention: GitHub issues from top Open Source Golang Repositories that you should contribute to | dev.to | 2024-01-15Memos - customise max content length of memo
Try SiYuan Note. It's free and open source local-first mix of Notion and Obsidian.
https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan
Source: (1) A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode - Foam. https://foambubble.github.io/foam/. (2) A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode. https://github.com/foambubble/foam. (3) Loam - Visual Studio Marketplace. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ciceroisback.loam.
Project mention: Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-20The home page title has the word zero knowledge, I guess?
Their GitHub has slightly more info regarding this, but I agree that stuff like this should have at least a page dedicated for it that explains how they've implemented their security.
> Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open-source note-taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use. To ensure zero knowledge principles, Notesnook encrypts everything on your device using XChaCha20-Poly1305 & Argon2.
https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook
Project mention: Nb – note taking and archiving on the command line | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-03
Project mention: Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the commnand line | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-11
Project mention: Ask HN: What products other than Obsidian share the file over app philosophy? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03FSNotes for macOS and iOS is one I used for a little while.
https://fsnot.es/
todo.txt is another thing that comes to mind.
http://todotxt.org/
And of course pretty much all of *nix.
Project mention: Show HN: GodotOS: A Fake Operating System Interface Made in the Godot Engine | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-11Completely agreed! I've been meaning to write a blog post on using Godot to professionally create cross-platform applications (and probably will soon). The short of it is that Godot is fantastic as a UI builder, and I think a lot of people are slowly realizing it. Many professional applications have been built with Godot[0] , and I also want to give a shoutout to Lorien[1] which is my favorite whiteboard application also made in Godot, and what partially inspired this whole project.
[0]: https://alfredbaudisch.com/blog/gamedev/godot-engine/standal...
[1]: https://github.com/mbrlabs/Lorien
Project mention: Show HN: Text Lambda, a versatile notebook for your personal data | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-21this certainly could be useful for me personally, but it would need more functionality. I think the _full_ project could be very useful though. however i would ask, how is this different from e.g. https://standardnotes.com/ and other note systems available ?
I think WorldBrain (https://github.com/WorldBrain/Memex) promises this. While I'm also excited by the idea, I think there was some reason why I ended up not using it.
Plume is actually based on my open source note-taking app Notes[1]. You can already get it on Flathub, Snap Store etc. Notes uses just a simple plain text editor while Plume has a completely revamped block editor that I built from scratch. That parts of Notes used in Plume will remain open source (per the MPL license) but the rest of the code will be closed source. At least for the time being.
[1] https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes
Most of my technical note-taking these days happens inside VS Code. I already have it running, so opening a new window and stripping out the chrome (closing other stuff, hiding sidebars, etc. gives me all I need, _plus_ optional preview depending on on what I'm writing (mostly Markdown these days).
Another option some of my friends like is Heynote (https://heynote.com), but, again, I can do the same with VS Code...
Project mention: Tips on how to structure your home directory (2023) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-19
Project mention: Squarespace Enters Definitive Agreement to Acquire Google Domains Assets | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-16
Archivy is often updated; the most recent update was on July 25, 2023, and the most recent release was on January 7, 2023. Archivy is committed to developing open and high-quality knowledge base software through collaboration and community, as evidenced by its issue board and Discord server community.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
note-taking related posts
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- Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac
- Patterns of personal knowledge base (2023)
- NoteCalc 0.4.0
- Joplin is an open source note-taking app
- My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file
- Flatnotes: Self-hosted note taking web app that uses Markdown files
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Index
What are some of the best open-source note-taking projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joplin | 42,770 |
| 2 | logseq | 29,702 |
| 3 | memos | 27,145 |
| 4 | Trilium Notes | 25,307 |
| 5 | siyuan | 15,733 |
| 6 | foam | 14,796 |
| 7 | vnote | 11,393 |
| 8 | Laverna | 9,135 |
| 9 | notesnook | 8,308 |
| 10 | takenote | 6,646 |
| 11 | nb | 6,294 |
| 12 | jrnl | 6,270 |
| 13 | fsnotes | 6,115 |
| 14 | Lorien | 4,934 |
| 15 | app | 4,893 |
| 16 | QOwnNotes | 4,333 |
| 17 | Memex | 4,329 |
| 18 | notes | 3,529 |
| 19 | heynote | 3,474 |
| 20 | TagSpaces | 3,400 |
| 21 | GitJournal | 3,308 |
| 22 | archivy | 3,145 |
| 23 | Omni-Notes | 2,663 |
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