| 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. Multiplatform. My current favourite. | ||
| 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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