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Name Info Tables? Platform
AllMyNotes Organizer Gaudy UI. (Win, paid)
AM-Notebook ‘multi-featured personal information manager’. Nice, but I don't need the calendar, contacts and to-do tabs. (Win, paid)
Amplenote No
Anytype https://anytype.io/ Yes
Apple Notes
Bear
Boostnote ‘Boost Note is a powerful, lightspeed collaborative workspace for developer teams.’
Box Notes Sort of like a cross between using Dropbox Paper & Google Drive (Docs, Sheets, etc.) as a note-taking app. Has a free plan.
Carnet
CintaNotes No Windows
Clickup Way too complicated and full of sales stuff for my purposes. Web, Mobile
Cling
Coda Very similar to Notion. Yes! Web, Android
Code Notes A simple code snippet manager for developers built with Electron & Vue.js
CoderNotes
Dabble ‘Dabble - Craft your story. The online/offline cloud-based writing tool. Dabble is an easy-to-use online writing tool, packed with helpful features that allows beginning novelists and published authors to create amazing stories.Like Scrivener. Minus the Learning Curve.’
Document Node Very interesting writing and publishing tool. Good Markdown editor, including table editor. Yes
Dropbox Paper I am really trying to make it work, since I am quite heavily invested in Dropbox already (since it's the only cloud sync solution with decent delta sync. However, so far the UI seems pretty disjointed.
Dynalist similar to Workflowy
Epsilon Notes
Evernote Not perfect, but still the best note-taking solution available at the moment, in terms of all the things that it can do. Free-form (hierarchical) folders would be very welcome though. I hate being forced to structure everything using only Stacks and (un-nestable) Notebooks. Yes Web, Mac/Windows, Andoid/iOS
Fibery https://fibery.io/ Yes
Google Drive Google Drive = Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google Forms, etc. Use Google Drive interface (web, Android) as your note folder system, and created notes as Google Docs, Sheets, etc. Web, Mobile
Google Keep No formatting or tables! Also no folders. Only tags. Plus, it's made by Google, so might just disappear next month, after being renamed 5 times ;-) No
InfoQube
Journey
Joplin I had decided on Joplin as my main note-taking app, but then tried to edit a long (markdown) table or to-do list on my Android phone. Not a great experience, to say the least. Desktop, Android
OneNote just don’t like it. the UI design, and specifically the stupid idea of notebooks > sections, etc., is just a mess
Roam Research
KeyNote NF (Win, free)
Leanote Chinese
LiquidText
linked No
Manuskript Open-source tool for writers. With outliner, character management, plot development, distraction-free editor, etc.
MediaWiki The wiki software that powers Wikipedia. Can be used as a note-taking app. Yes Web
Mem New product, not yet available. You can request early access. No
Microsoft Windows Journal
MyInfo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyInfo
My Notes Keeper ‘free-form notes/outliner application’. Highly recommended. Quality Chinese software. Yes Windows
MyTetra ‘smart manager for information collecting’ (Russian software, with English version) Multi-platform
NoteCase Pro Multi-platform
Notion Yes Desktop, Web, Mobile
Novlr
Nimbus Note Pages/documents load a little slow, but actually a very interesting, comprehensive note-taking solution. See e.g.: “But now after a month, I'm so fed up with this shit. Nimbus Note is really, really, really slow. Not the app itself, but the servers. It takes a good 30 seconds to switch between simple notes which is just unacceptable." (https://alternativeto.net/software/nimbus-note/reviews/)

No longer recommend as it was just too damned slow.

Yes
Notebooks You can create Markdown tables, or copy/paste in a table from e.g. Word/Evernote, but you can't actually edit the rich text table. You can edit the markdown table though. No, not really
Notes
nTask
Nuclino Minimalist wiki. OK, but am not a real fan of the UI. Multiplatform.
Obsidian ‘A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.’ Website: https://obsidian.md/ Yes, but tables are markdown. Mac, Linux, Windows. Mobile app on its way. No web, but has publishing and sync facilities.
Okular
Open-Sankoré
Personal Knowbase ‘free-form text database and note organizer software’. Strange.
QOwnNotes
Qiqqa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiqqa
Quip Supports cool stuff, like good tables and formatting but is very business oriented (teams, collaboration, work chat, etc.), which isn’t really my cup of tea.
RightNote
Roam Research A note-taking tool for networked thought. As easy to use as a document. As powerful as a graph database.

Roam helps you organize your research for the long haul.’

Yes, but Roam Research has a very strange way of making tables.
Scrivener
Simplenote Plain text No
SiYuan https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan Yes
Stackedit
Synology Note Station
Supernotes ‘Supernotes is your new home for ideas, records, tasks, and lists. Enjoy efficient note-taking without the hassle.’ No Web
TagSpaces
Taskade
TiddlyWiki
Trillium Notes
Typora https://typora.io/
TreeDBNotes Seems to be dead now.
Tomboy Cross-platform (Mono/GTK+)
Ulysses Mac
VNote
WhizFolders ‘list-based Outliner and Organizer for all your notes, ideas and writing projects’. Tested. Too much distracting stuff. (Win, paid)
Wiznote “Leave Brain for Thinking, Let WizNote to Remember.” (Chinese) Chinese
Workflowy
Ultra Recall Personal Information Manager (PIM)
UpNote UpNote
Zim
Zoho Notebook Pretty good. Just wish there would be a better way to always show folders/notes in list view.

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