Note Taking tools
Tools for capturing and organizing personal or shared notes.
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AppFlowy
75,519
Note Taking
AppFlowy is an open-source collaborative workspace for organizing projects, tasks, wikis, databases, documentation, and AI-assisted work across devices.
M
Memos
62,267
Note Taking
Memos is a self-hosted, Markdown-native note-taking app for quick capture, timeline-based writing, web clipping, and user-controlled data management.
S
Siyuan
45,825
Note Taking
SiYuan is a privacy-first knowledge workspace for block-based notes, linked documents, AI-assisted writing, and structured personal knowledge management.
L
Logseq
44,466
Note Taking
Logseq is an open-source knowledge-management app for organizing notes, tasks, and ideas in local-first graphs, with desktop, web, and mobile access.
T
Trilium
37,438
Note Taking
Trilium is an open-source note-taking application for building large personal knowledge bases with rich editing, search, organization, and self-hosted sync.
N
Notesnook
14,417
Note Taking
Notesnook is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted note-taking app with web, desktop, mobile clients, and a web clipper focused on private note storage.
V
Vnote
12,897
Note Taking
VNote is a free, open-source Qt desktop note-taking application for creating and organizing Markdown notes on Linux, Windows, and macOS systems.
N
Note-gen
12,636
Note Taking
NoteGen is a local-first Markdown app for capturing notes, media, and links, then organizing them with AI into editable documents, searchable knowledge.
B
Blinko
10,872
Note Taking
Blinko is a self-hosted AI note-taking app for quickly capturing ideas as Markdown text, organizing them, and retrieving them with natural-language search.
A
App
6,583
Note Taking
Standard Notes is an encrypted cross-platform note-taking app for capturing and syncing private notes and files across devices, with self-hosting support.
S
Silverbullet
5,854
Note Taking
SilverBullet is a self-hosted Markdown knowledge database with wiki links, live preview, queries, tasks, and Lua scripting for programmable personal notes.
Q
QOwnNotes
5,841
Note Taking
QOwnNotes is an open-source Markdown notepad and todo-list manager for desktop users, with searchable plain-text notes, tagging, web capture, and cloud sync.
T
Tagspaces
5,236
Note Taking
TagSpaces is an open-source desktop app for organizing local files with tags, fuzzy search, offline note creation, web clipping, and cross-platform file access.
C
Colanode
5,015
Note Taking
Colanode is an open-source, local-first collaboration workspace for team chat, rich-text pages, wikis, databases, files, and self-hosted data control.
G
GitJournal
4,204
Note Taking
GitJournal is a mobile-first Markdown note-taking app that stores notes in Git repositories, supporting privacy, portability, journaling, and user-controlled.
O
Open-knowledge
3,466
Note Taking
OpenKnowledge is a local-first markdown editor and AI-native wiki for creating, organizing, searching, and sharing notes and knowledge bases.
T
Tududi
3,252
Note Taking
Tududi is a self-hosted productivity app for organizing tasks, projects, notes, areas, and tags, with recurring work, sharing, Telegram, and CalDAV support.
F
Flatnotes
3,179
Note Taking
Flatnotes is a self-hosted web note-taking app that stores notes as Markdown files, with tagging, full-text search, editing, linking, and responsive access.
N
NoteDiscovery
2,746
Note Taking
Self-hosted knowledge-base app for writing, organizing, searching, and linking Markdown notes with themes, templates, graph views, sharing, and AI integration.
A
Alexandrie
2,326
Note Taking
Self-hosted knowledge base for organizing, searching, sharing, and exporting Markdown notes with offline access, team workspaces, and granular permissions.
Z
Zennotes
2,308
Note Taking
ZenNotes is a keyboard-first Markdown notes app for writing, organizing, searching, and previewing local files, with tasks, daily notes, diagrams, and.
T
TidGi-Desktop
2,000
Note Taking
TidGi is a local-first desktop knowledge-management and note-taking app built on TiddlyWiki, with Git backups, plugins, and blog deployment.
A
Atomic
1,891
Note Taking
Atomic is a self-hosted knowledge base that turns Markdown notes into linked, searchable articles with AI synthesis, semantic search, chat, and visual graph.
H
Haptic
1,694
Note Taking
Haptic is an open-source, local-first markdown note-taking app for creating and managing private notes through desktop and self-hosted web interfaces.
R
Reflect-open
1,421
Note Taking
Reflect is a local-first Markdown note-taking app with daily notes, wiki links, backlinks, fast local search, optional AI, and file-based sync.
A
Anchor
1,222
Note Taking
Anchor is a self-hostable, offline-first note-taking app for creating, organizing, searching, sharing, and syncing rich multimedia notes across web and mobile.
E
Edgeever
1,171
Note Taking
EdgeEver is an open-source notes workspace for capturing, organizing, searching, syncing, and sharing rich notes across devices with AI and web clipping.
C
Crossnote-app
1,087
Note Taking
Crossnote is a local-first web notebook for writing and reading Markdown notes stored in the browser or local folders, with offline use and Git sync.
R
Rote
1,031
Note Taking
Rote is a self-hostable note platform for recording, organizing, exporting, and searching notes and Markdown articles, with optional AI chat and an iOS client.
N
Notabase
910
Note Taking
Notabase is an open-source personal knowledge base for linking, organizing, editing, searching, and browsing notes across devices with cloud sync.
L
Lumina-Note
907
Note Taking
Lumina Note is a local-first Markdown desktop note app with linked knowledge graphs, PDF tools, and an AI agent for organizing and enriching vaults.
E
Eclaire
897
Note Taking
Eclaire is a local-first, self-hosted AI workspace for organizing notes, documents, photos, bookmarks, and tasks with private data processing.
M
MdSilo-app
849
Note Taking
mdSilo is a local-first knowledge base and note-taking app for writing, linking, organizing, and exploring ideas across Markdown files with graphs.
M
Memex
669
Note Taking
Memex is a local-first iOS and Android journal that captures text, photos, and voice, then uses AI to organize fragments into cards, knowledge, and insights.
D
Drafft-ink
546
Note Taking
Drafft.ink is a self-hostable infinite-canvas whiteboard for drawing, annotating, and collaborating in real time across desktop, web, and mobile.
P
Plainpad
422
Note Taking
Plainpad is a self-hosted note-taking application that lets users run a simple personal notes service on their own server with Docker-based deployment.
S
SilentNotes
340
Note Taking
SilentNotes is a privacy-focused note-taking app for Android and Windows with encrypted synchronization, tagging, search, WYSIWYG editing, and self-hosted sync.
K
Kuku
203
Note Taking
Kuku is a local-first macOS Markdown workspace for private note vaults, connected wikis, graph navigation, AI-assisted editing, and encrypted sync.
How to choose open-source Note Taking software
Start with the workflow you need to replace, then compare feature coverage, deployment documentation, project activity, data portability, and support. Repository popularity is useful context, but it should not outweigh fit or the project's maintenance history.
Capabilities and use cases
Across the reviewed tools, common documented capabilities include Connected note vault creation, Cross-device multimedia note capture and retrieval, Local data storage, Graph and full-text search, Advanced and AI-powered search, Notebooks, tags, and templates, Cross-platform sync and offline access, Note-to-shareable-document workflow. Verify the exact workflow on each profile before migrating production data.
Licensing considerations
Licenses represented in this category include AGPL-3.0, Apache-2.0, GPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, LGPL-3.0, MIT, MPL-2.0. Check redistribution, modification, and hosted-service obligations against your intended use.
Self-hosting tradeoffs
38 of 38 reviewed tools are confirmed as self-hostable, and 21 document Docker support. Compare upgrade, backup, monitoring, and security work alongside hosting cost.