Open Source Note-Taking Apps

Xournal is a GTK+/Gnome application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus on Tablet PCs and other platforms. It aims to provide superior graphical quality (subpixel resolution) and overall functionality.

Hypernomicon is a personal productivity/database application for researchers that combines structured note-taking, mind-mapping, management of files (e.g., PDFs) and folders, and reference management into an integrated environment that organizes all of the above into semantic networks or hierarchies in terms of debates, positions, arguments, labels, terminology/concepts, and user-defined keywords by means of database relations and automatically generated hyperlinks (hence ‘Hyper’ in the name). Hypernomicon keeps track of all these things in a highly structured, thoroughly indexed and user friendly relational database, automatically generates semantic hyperlinks between all of them, and presents this information in many different forms so that you are constantly informed of ways all of your information is related that you had not realized.

Now we have become very big and different from the original idea. Here we collect awesome macOS software in various categories. Feel free to star and fork. Reading and writing tools, text editors, office, markdown tools, note-taking, journaling. Ebooks, RSS, developer tools, IDEs, developer utilities, etc. Regular expression editors, API development and analysis, network analysis, command line tools, frameworks for hybrid applications, version control. Virtualization, databases, design and product, design tools, prototyping and mind-mapping tools, screen capturing software, etc. Major software download sites, there are a number of OSX Mac software sites. This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.

NoteLab is an advanced "digital notebook" specifically designed for tablet computers. With its stroke smoothing, antialiasing, and "smart rendering," NoteLab provides a beautiful and powerful note taking environment on any operating system.

Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Especially for learners watching some lectures online or using video capturing devices. Grab screen areas with a click (or tap), automatically save it and allows adding notes on it using mouse, pen and keyboard - very quick (and draft). Then it is possible to view grabbed screenshots and annotate it additionally with the same set of tools, easy and convenient. May be help to somebody these sad days.

Livenotes is a Tablet-PC based application that supports cooperative learning in classrooms. Livenotes integrates the functions of augmented note-taking and notes sharing among small groups.

Note Taker Allocation - a system to allocate note takers to students with disabilities, matching note taker availability with student timetable.

A lite note taking application which saves notes to a text file.

Pliny is a tool to support scholarly research by assisting with the creation, organisation and management of notes, annotations, and other scholarly resources.

RiteNote is completely free and is easy to use for college/university or high school class/lecture note-taking. By focusing on only this one purpose, the app gets out of your way. It's just you and your keyboard, with only the features you actually care about. The entire UI is visible and can be easily navigated with Esc, arrowkeys, and Return. Windows only, so far. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! RiteNote is open source, we don't expect to make a penny. But we also can't guarantee the software is glitch free, so make backups and save them in a separate folder. The .rite file format can be easily read as .html, in case you want to export your notes, or view them outside the app. Just change the file extension.

A simple cross-platform note taking program designed with usability in mind.

A note-taking and organisation application for use by students in lectures

A Cross Platform Note Taker

dMind is a minimalistic, distraction-free yet feature-rich note-taking app. Use a modified and extended version of markdown to take your notes. Are you a visual learner? dMind has built-in support for diagrams, tables and math expressions.

*nts* provides a simple format for using text files to store notes, a command line interface for viewing notes in a variety of convenient ways and a cross-platform, wx(python)-based GUI for creating and modifying notes as well as viewing them.