Notes are a part of any author’s life. Most of my articles start in a note-taking software and that’s often Joplin for me. There are a lot of note-taking apps for Linux and it’s possible you’ll use one thing apart from my favourite. A current weblog article jogged my memory of a half dozen of them, so I assembled a listing of my favorites.
Joplin
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Joplin is accessible on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. I like Joplin as a result of it robotically saves no matter you add to it. Notes may be uploaded to SubsequentCloud, PersonalCloud, Joplin Cloud, and even closed supply providers like OneDrive, Dropbox, or any WebDav purposes. Joplin helps encryption.
It’s simple to export notes in quite a lot of codecs, too. It comes with eight totally different themes that will let you tailor its look.
Joplin has an MIT license. Initially launched in 2017 Joplin is beneath steady improvement with a big neighborhood of contributors.
Xournal
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Xournal is accessible on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android. Its goal is to allow you to create notes containing almost any media kind you possibly can think about. It helps pressure-sensitive stylus and drawing tablets so that you create sketchnotes. You can kind into it, draw easy vectors, import graphics, file audio, and extra. You also can use Xournal to annotate PDFs, which is how I’ve used it. It is launched with a GPLv2 license, and you’ll export notes in quite a lot of codecs.
Trillium
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Trillium is a hierarchical note-taking software with a deal with information constructing bases. It options wealthy WYSIWYG enhancing with tables, photos, and markdown. It has help for enhancing notes in supply code with syntax highlighting. It’s launched beneath the Gnu Affero License.
Trilium is accessible as a desktop software for Linux and Windows, in addition to an online software that you would be able to host by yourself Linux server.
Gnote
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Gnote is an open supply be aware taking software written for Linux. It was cloned by Hubert Figuière from a challenge referred to as Tomboy. Like Tomboy, Gnote makes use of a wiki-like linking system to will let you hyperlink notes collectively.
GNote’s supply code is accessible on GitLab. The software program is licensed with GPLv3.
CherryTree
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CherryTree helps hierarchical note-taking. In CherryTree all the things is a node. Nodes may be plain textual content, wealthy textual content, syntax highlighting for quite a lot of programming languages. Each node can have youngster nodes every with a unique format.
CherryTree options wealthy textual content and syntax highlighting, and may retailer information in a single XML or SQLite file. CherryTree can import from quite a lot of codecs together with Markdown, HTML, plain textual content, Gnote, Tomboy, and others. It can export recordsdata to PDF, HTML, plain textual content and its personal CherryTree format.
CherryTree is licensed beneath the GPLv3, and may be put in on Linux, Windows, and macOS.