Comparison of notetaking software
The tables below compare features of notable note-taking software.
General information
| Name | Developer(s) | License | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| AllMyNotes Organizer | ? | ? | Windows |
| AS Noted | No-cost, unknown license | Android / iOS / Chrome | |
| BasKet Note Pads | KDE | Open source (GPL) | Unix-like (KDE) |
| CintaNotes | Cinta Software | Proprietary, Freemium | Windows |
| Circus Ponies NoteBook | Circus Ponies Software | Proprietary, Commercial | Mac OS X, iOS |
| ConnectedText | Eduardo Mauro | Proprietary, Commercial | Windows |
| Day One | Bloom Built | Proprietary, Commercial | Mac OS X, iOS |
| DéjàClick | AlertSite | Proprietary, Commercial | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows (Mozilla add-on) |
| Evernote | Evernote Corporation | Proprietary, Freemium for personal use, per-seat licensing for business | Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Windows Phone, Blackberry, HP WebOS and web-based |
| Gnote | Aurimas Černius | Open source (GPL v3) | Linux |
| Google Keep | Proprietary, no-cost | Android, iOS, Chrome OS, browser based | |
| Jarnal | David K. Levine and Gunnar Teege | Open source (GPL) | Any Java-enabled platform |
| KeyNote NF | Marek Jedliński, Tranglos Software | Open source (MPL) | Windows |
| Laverna | Laverna | Open source (MPL 2.0) | Linux, Windows, OS X, Android (coming soon), Self-hosted. |
| Memonic | Nektoon AG | Proprietary, Freemium[Notes 1] | Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile web-based |
| Microsoft OneNote | Microsoft | Proprietary, Shareware/Freeware/Freemium[Notes 2] | Android, Mac OS X, iOS (iPad, iPhone), Symbian, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7/8/8.1/10, web-based, mobile web |
| MyInfo | Milenix Software | Proprietary, Shareware | Windows XP/Vista/7 |
| MyNotex | Massimo Nardello | Open source (GPL) | Linux |
| Notational Velocity | Zachary Schneirov | Open source (GPL v3) | Mac OS X |
| Notes (iOS) | Apple | Proprietary | iOS (iPad, iPhone), web-based |
| Notizen .NET | ? | No-cost, unknown license | Windows XP/Vista/7 |
| Okular | Okular Team (KDE) | Open source (GPL) | KDE-enabled Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD[1] |
| Open-Sankoré | Sankoré | Open source (GPL) | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows |
| OpenNote | FoxUSA | Open source (MIT License) | Self-hosted. Not is a SaaS, it's a system to install in an own server. |
| Org-mode (Emacs) | Carsten Dominik, et al. | Open source (GPL) | Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows (Emacs mode) |
| Outline | Gorillized Corporation | Proprietary, Commercial | Mac OS X, iOS |
| PDF Studio | Qoppa Software | Proprietary, Shareware | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, web-based |
| Personal Knowbase | Bitsmith Software | Proprietary, Commercial | Windows |
| QOwnNotes | Patrizio Bekerle | Open source (GPL) | GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |
| Qiqqa | Quantisle Ltd. | Proprietary, Freemium | Windows XP/Vista/7/8, Web-based, Android |
| TagSpaces | TagSpaces UG | Open source (AGPL) | Cross-platform (browser, web-based) |
| TiddlyWiki | Jeremy Ruston | Open source (BSD) | Cross-platform (single html file, runs in browser) |
| Tomboy | Alex Graveley | Open source (LGPL) | Cross-platform (Mono/GTK+) |
| TreeDBNotes | ? | Proprietary, Freemium | Microsoft Windows |
| Whizfolders | AvniTech Solutions | Proprietary, Commercial | Windows |
| WikidPad | Michael Butscher | Open source (BSD) | Cross-platform (Python) |
| Windows Journal | Microsoft | Proprietary, Commercial | Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Windows Vista, Windows 7/8/10 (included with OS) |
| Zim | Jaap Karssenberg | Open source (GPL) | Cross-platform (Python, GTK+) |
| ZOHO Notebook | ZOHO Corporation | Proprietary, Commercial, Freemium | Self-hosted. SaaS. |
Basic features
| Name | Organizing principle(s) | Outline bulleting with indent | Tabbed sections | Sync | PDF annotate and save |
Whiteboard | Ink-pen input | Handwriting recognition | Spell check | Search | Printing | File save/export/import formats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AllMyNotes Organizer | Tree | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
| As Noted | Notebooks, sections, tags | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | Import from evernote; dropbox sync |
| BasKet Note Pads | Tree, tags | ? | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Rich text; export as HTML; import text files |
| CintaNotes | Notebooks, sections, tags | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Proprietary; export to Unicode text, XML and HTML |
| Circus Ponies NoteBook | indexing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary; export: html, opml, rtf, txt, doc, pdf |
| ConnectedText | Wiki, Tree and Categories | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary (SQL); Export to text, XML, CHM and HTML. Import from text, HTML, XML and RTF |
| Day One | Chronological, tags | Yes | No | Yes[Notes 3] | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[Notes 4] | Markdown (in GUI), XML (data file); Export as: pdf, txt, md |
| DéjàClick | ? | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes[Notes 5] | XML; notes may include rich text or HTML |
| Org-mode (Emacs) | tree, tags | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, Taskjuggler, PDF, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar |
| Evernote | tags, Notebooks, Stacks | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Partial[Notes 6] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Notes stored as XML; both free and paid versions allow notes of any file type |
| Gnote | Notebooks | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF |
| Google Keep | tags, colors | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | Partial[Notes 7] | Yes | No | Proprietary; export to Google Doc and thence to PDF, Word, ODT etc. |
| Jarnal | ? | No | No | Yes[Notes 8] | Yes | Yes | Partial[Notes 9] | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Zip compatible archive containing one SVG per page, config file, and optional background PDFs/images; can export to txt, html, jpg, pdf |
| KeyNote NF | Notebooks, notes and tree | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Internal: combination of TXT and RTF; import/export: TXT, RTF, HTML, Treepad |
| Memonic | ? | ? | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Notes stored as XML; can attach any filetype |
| Microsoft OneNote | Notebooks, sections, pages | Yes | Yes | Yes[Notes 10] | Yes[Notes 11] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Open, XML,[2] import from web pages and other applications |
| MyInfo | ? | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Proprietary, encrypted; import: plain text, RTF, CSV, MS Word, images, web pages; exports: plain text, HTML, RTF, CSV, MS Word |
| MyNotex | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | Yes | Yes | Sqlite based, zipped attachments; export to HTML; copying as LaTeX; import text files, OpenOffice.org documents |
| Notizen .NET | tree | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Yes | No | TXT (ANSI/Unicode), RTF, ALX |
| Okular | ? | ? | ? | No | Yes[Notes 12] | No | No | No | ? | ? | Yes | PDF, PS, TIFF, CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS, ODF, others; export PDF+notes for sending to other Okular users |
| Open-Sankoré | tree, notebooks | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Save/export: PDF, IWB, UBZ; Import: PDF, IWB, UBZ, images, image directories |
| Outline | Tree-structured notebooks, sections, pages | Yes | Yes | Yes[Notes 13] | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | MS OneNote format, export/import as PDF |
| PDF Studio | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | |
| Personal Knowbase | tags | ? | ? | ? | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Export to RTF, HTML, TXT, CSV |
| Qiqqa | tags, brainstorm | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Proprietary, PDF, Brainstorm; export to RTF and Word |
| TagSpaces | tags, files, directories | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, ICO, WEBP, SVG, PDF, HTML, MHT, MHTML, MARKDOWN, TXT, XML, JSON, OGG, OGV, WEBM, ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG, EPUB, ZIP |
| TiddlyWiki | tags (wikiwords) | ? | Yes | Yes | Via plugin | No | ? | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | HTML |
| Tomboy | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF, wiki-formats |
| TreeDBNotes | tree | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | RTF, HTML, txt |
| WikidPad | tags (wikiwords) | ? | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | Yes | HTML |
| Windows Journal | ? | ? | No | ? | No | ? | Yes | Yes[Notes 14] | ? | ? | Yes | Proprietary |
| Zim | tags (wikiwords) | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, using installed web browser | Stored in modified DocuWiki Markdown; export: HTML, LaTeX, Pandoc Markdown, Sphinx RST (reStructuredText) |
| Name | Organizing principle(s) | Outline bulleting with indent | Tabbed sections | Sync | PDF annotate and save | Whiteboard | Ink-pen input | Handwriting recognition | Spell check | Search | Printing | File save/export/import formats |
Advanced formatting and content
| Name | Drawing atop text |
Text box, flow diagram |
Text and paragraph formatting | Insert hyperlink |
Insert image | Resize image | Insert table | Insert audio | Insert video | Insert SWF | Attachment |
Other objects | Remarks / other features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AllMyNotes Organizer | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Alarms, check-boxes, bullets, phones, advanced links | |
| As Noted | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | ? | |
| BasKet Note Pads | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | Yes | tags (check boxes, etc.) | Adding, managing notes by category, autosave |
| CintaNotes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | ? | No | No | No | No | Yes | Links to notes | Tagging and searching for tags, tag hierarchy |
| Circus Ponies NoteBook | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Alarms, check-boxes, address book links, keywords, numbering, priority, due date, formulas in tables | Tagging, automatic indexing, sketching, diagramming, voice annotated notes, screen clipping, link or embed files |
| ConnectedText | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Scripting of pages with Python and other scripting languages. | LaTex, Scripts, RSS Feeds, Transclusion, Directed Graphs and Flowcharts by GraphViz, many other features. |
| Day One | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | tags, bullets, numbering, line, programming code snippets | editable note metadata (date/time, location, weather, motion activity, music playing, step count) |
| DéjàClick | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Annotate live web pages via DéjàNotes and share scripts |
| Org-mode (Emacs) | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Advanced linking, bullets, tags, checkboxes, full spreadsheet, embedding of programming code, formulas, markup | Major mode of Emacs; uses plain-text; includes ToDos, spreadsheet, deadlines, encryption, reminders, agenda, calendar |
| Evernote | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (at least Windows version (06/2016)) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Check-box, line, tags | Business and personal notes integrated in same client; businesses have control over business notes, but cannot see personal notes |
| Gnote | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | Port of Tomboy to C++; wiki-style linked notes |
| Google Keep | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Partial[Notes 15] | Yes | ? | No | No | Google Calendar reminders | Notes can be shared with other Google Keep users. |
| IPython Notebook | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Part of IPython shell; allows for programming code, output and annotation to be combined in single interactive environment |
| Jarnal | Yes | ? | Partial[Notes 16] | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | PDF as image or background | |
| KeyNote NF | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes[Notes 17] | ? | Yes[Notes 18] | No | No | No | Yes | OLE objects; "virtual nodes" which integrate and edit the content of external plain-text or rich-text files; internal links; mirror nodes. | Text processing; tree numbering and sorting; custom tree icons; node checkboxes; checkbox filtering; search filtering; reminder alarms; compressed or encrypted notebooks; auto-minimize and/or auto-lock when idle; quick access key for fast notes; additional scratchpad; autosave of up to 9 previous file versions; automatic clipboard capturing; read-only notebooks or notes; macros; templates; text shortcuts; plug-ins; bookmarks; custom keyboard shortcuts; program can be made portable through "Options" setting |
| Memonic | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Microsoft OneNote | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes[Notes 19] | Yes | Yes | Yes | OLE, bullets, line, flags, formulas | No local storage of notebooks on mac |
| MyInfo | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | OLE, bullets, numbering, page breaks, advanced links | Tags; filters; calendar; reminders |
| MyNotex | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Activity lists; tags; notes management by subject; encryption with AES or GPG; multilingual |
| Notational Velocity | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Instant open and searching |
| Okular | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Open-Sankoré | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | plug-ins, web pages, applications | Annotate live desktop applications and web pages; autosave; plug-in system; audio recording |
| Outline | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Tags | Password protection, insert web pages, local storage, MS OneNote compatibility, text highlighting, bulleted and numbered lists, free placement of notes on a page |
| PDF Studio | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Personal Knowbase | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Passwords; portable |
| Qiqqa | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | No | No | No | No | No | PDF, brainstorm, citations | |
| TagSpaces | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ? | Tags, plugins | Plugins, you can present your local images, videos and music to your TV via ChromeCast. You can create a personal "wiki" for tracking of your projects, ideas or memories. |
| TiddlyWiki | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | HTML, LaTeX, markdown plugins | Plugins; user scripts |
| Tomboy | Partial | No | Partial | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Note Links, highlighting, fixed-width | Reminders; to do-lists; formulas in LaTeX |
| TreeDBNotes | ? | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | ? | |
| WikidPad | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | personal wiki software |
| Windows Journal | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| Zim | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Plugins; Versioning; LaTeX integration (formulas, export); HTML export (including slideshow); GNOME's Zeitgeist integration; Lilypond music sheet integration | ASCII diagram drawing; Tags; Tasks; Table of Content navigation; SQLite3 search indexing; Autosaving; Last cursor position memory; Tabbed multi-documents |
| Name | Drawing atop text | Text box, flow diagram | Text and paragraph formatting | Insert hyperlink | Insert image | Resize image | Insert table | Insert audio | Insert video | Insert SWF | Attachment | Other objects | Remarks / other features |
See also
- Comparison of text editors
- Comparison of web annotation systems
- Comparison of wiki software
- Comparison of word processors
- List of personal information managers
- List of text editors
- List of wiki software
- Outliner
- Personal information manager
- Personal knowledge base
Notes
- ↑ Free users limited to 100 notes.
- ↑ Depends on platform and version.
- ↑ Data is synced between devices by Dropbox or iCloud.
- ↑ Printable via exported pdf files.
- ↑ Note may be printed and saved as web pages via the Firefox browser.
- ↑ No support for ink notes in Mac version. Cannot mix ink with text
- ↑ On android and Chrome OS uses platform's spell checker.
- ↑ One instance can be begun in server mode or a web server (webdav?) used. See manual page
- ↑ No pressure sensitivity.
- ↑ Can sync with OneDrive and SharePoint.
- ↑ OneNote 2010 and OneNote 2007 Service Pack 2 and beyond have it built in. A Save As PDF add-in is available for earlier versions of OneNote 2007. Can save to PDF with add-in.
- ↑ Saved in separate file.
- ↑ Notes can be synced between devices via Box, Dropbox, OneDrive, SharePoint and iCloud.
- ↑ Handwritten notes are searchable.
- ↑ Lists only, with check-box facility.
- ↑ Text only, no concept of paragraphs.
- ↑ As the RTF format stores pictures internally as bitmaps (.bmp), this leads to large notebook files.
- ↑ Tables must be created in another program. After pasting the table into Keynote NF, one can edit the cells and add new rows, but changing the size of the columns and adding or removing columns is not possible. These operations can be done by pasting the table into another program (for example, MS Word).
- ↑ Can also search in audio.
References
- ↑ "Okular home page". Retrieved 19 June 2013.
... Okular works on multiple platforms, including but not limited to Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, *BSD, etc.
- ↑ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd924743(v=office.12).aspx
External links
- Sauve, Jean-Paul (Jan 9, 2014). "Taking Notes in Linux for Students".
Linux software comparison
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