Open Source Linux Note-Taking Apps
Sort By:
Note-Taking Apps for Linux
View 26 business solutionsBrowse free open source Note-Taking apps and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Note-Taking apps by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
-
Our Free Plans just got better! | Auth0You asked, we delivered! Auth0 is excited to expand our Free and Paid plans to include more options so you can focus on building, deploying, and scaling applications without having to worry about your security. Auth0 now, thank yourself later.
-
Non Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) SoftwareNovusMED is an ecosystem that includes call center, administrative, driver applications, and client/clinic booking applications. NovusMED is the platform of choice for a wide range of medical transportation services and includes configurations for brokerage, providers, senior, community, and home health programs. Accurately manage calls and patient information. Monitor real-time performance and adjust resource capacity to meet changes in service demand. Manage will calls, confirmation calls, and recurring trips/standing orders in real time. Improved mileage reimbursement and cost calculators to manage multiple contractors, funding sources (payors), multiple providers, and volunteer driver programs. Enhanced credential management for vehicles and drivers. Manage subcontractor outsourcing with provider mobile, trip bidding, and trip offers. Able to see the closest vehicle and perform immediate bookings.
-
1
Notepad Next
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++
A cross-platform, reimplementation of Notepad++. Though the application overall is stable and usable, it should not be considered safe for critically important work. There are numerous bugs and half-working implementations. Pull requests are greatly appreciated. Windows packages are available as an installer or a stand-alone zip file on the release page. The installer provides additional components such as an auto-updater and Windows context menu integration. -
2
Xournal++
A handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support
Xournal++ (/ˌzɚnl̟ˌplʌsˈplʌs/) is an open-source and cross-platform note-taking software that is fast, flexible, and functional. A modern rewrite and a more feature-rich version of the wonderful Xournal program. Support for pressure-sensitive stylus and drawing tablets (Wacom, Huion, XP-Pen, etc.) Robust and customizable pen, highlighter and eraser tools, allowing you to write how you want to write. Use layers to make complex notes that are still pleasant to work with. Keep track of the notes by using page previews. Add images and create various shapes, from circles to splines to axis. Snap objects to rectangular grid or degrees of rotation. Create anything from differential equations to electrical circuits or the structural formula of molecules using our built-in LaTeX editor. Customize your toolbar to create a new layout, tailor-made for you. -
3
Joplin Desktop Linux Package
Repo with Joplin Desktop pre-built packages for Debian/Ubuntu
This is a repository containing the deb package of a pre-built version of Joplin Desktop for Debian/Ubuntu. It should work on latest LTS releases and up. For more info and reporting issues, please visit the source repo. -
4
Joplin
Open source note taking and to-do app with synchronization
Joplin is a free and open source note-taking and to-do application that can handle a large number of notes in Markdown format, organize them into notebooks and synchronize them with various cloud services. All notes can also be copied, tagged, searched and modified directly from the app or through your own text editor. Notes that are exported from Evernote can be imported into Joplin, be it formatted content, resources, complete metadata or plain Markdown files. When notes are synchronized with cloud services, notebooks, tags and other metadata can easily be moved, inspected or backed up as plain text files. Supported cloud services include Nextcloud, OneDrive, Dropbox and WebDAV. Joplin is available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android, with three types: desktop, mobile and terminal. All of them have similar user interfaces and can be synchronized with each other. -
One platform for phenomenal in-person and virtual careElation Telehealth’s HIPAA-compliant video platform within our EHR, powered by Zoom, ensures your practice can provide virtual care without having to implement or maintain a separate solution.
-
5
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.
-
6
TagSpaces
TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging
TagSpaces is a free, no vendor lock-in, open source application for organizing, annotating and managing local files with the help of tags. It features advanced note taking functionalities and some capabilities of to-do apps. The application is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS and Android. We provide a web clipper extension for Firefox, Edge and Chrome for easy collecting of online content in the form of local files. File and folder management - TagSpaces provides a convenient user interface for browsing, viewing and man files and folders. The application supports two ways for tagging files. The default one embeds the tags directly in the name of the file, the other one uses a so called sidecar files for persisting the tags. The search functionality supports fuzzy functionality and can filter your locations for files and folders containing one or more tags. -
7
Makagiga
To-do manager, notepad, RSS reader...
Makagiga is an open-source, easy-to-use, portable application for doing a variety of tasks, such as todo listing, text editing, or RSS reading. Plugins are used to implement its various capabilities. -
8
Obsidian
Community plugins list, theme list, and releases of Obsidian
The Obsidian Releases repository provides the official distribution builds and installers for Obsidian, the popular markdown-based knowledge management and personal wiki application. Obsidian itself is a powerful, offline-first note-taking tool that helps users build interconnected knowledge graphs using markdown files stored locally on their devices, with plugins and community themes for extensibility. This repository houses versioned compiled binaries and packages for multiple platforms such as Windows, macOS, and Linux, enabling users to download stable or nightly builds directly without needing to build the app from source. By maintaining clear version history and downloadable artifacts, it makes it easy for individuals and organizations to audit, rollback, or pin specific Obsidian releases for workflows that depend on stability or particular plugin compatibility. -
9
GloboNote
Create sticky notes, to-do list, journals & reminders all in one app
GloboNote is a free and easy to use desktop note taking application. It lets you create sticky notes, to-do lists, journals, reminders and other notes in one place. There are no limits to the number of sticky notes you can create. Notes can be organize by groups and search using the search tool. GloboNote can be run in any OS that has Java 8 installed. -
Admiral: The Visitor Relationship Management CompanyAdmiral created the first Visitor Relationship Management (VRM) platform for news and media publishers. The platform combines marketing automation, machine learning, personalization, and an engagement layer, to help digital publishers grow visitor relationships and revenue. They can deliver the right offer, at the right time, at every visitor touchpoint.
-
10
Notable
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck
Notes are written in Markdown, plus you can write KaTeX expressions, Mermaid diagrams and more, check out our Markdown cheatsheet. Notable provides a very powerful Markdown editor, it's the same one VS Code uses in fact, so features like multi-cursors, a minimap and best-in-class syntax highlighting are built-in. Notes and attachments are simply stored on your disk, this is extremely portable and powerful: you could edit your notes via a third-party editor on mobile, have them synchronized via Dropbox, use Git, run a regex-based search and replace etc. A dark theme is also available. In the future support for custom themes will be added as well. Zen mode provides a minimalistic editing and reading experience, hiding everything that's not necessary. Notable is also keyboard friendly, has a quick open window, and we'll soon add a command palette too, so you won't have to click any buttons if you don't want to. -
11
Notes
Note taking application, write down your thoughts.
Notes is an open source, cross-platform note-taking application. Write down your thoughts with ease, and always have them with you with this simple, streamlined app. -
12
memos
An open-source, self-hosted memo hub with knowledge management
A lightweight, self-hosted memo hub. Open Source and Free forever. memos provides the privacy security and reliability that innovators need in their moments of inspiration. Keep your own data by yourself. All data generated at runtime is saved in the SQLite database file. All content will be saved as plain text, not HTML. And lots of useful markdown syntaxes are supported. Using Go + React.js + SQLite architecture, the overall package is very lightweight. You can customize the server name, icon, description, custom system style and execution script, etc. memos believes that open source is the future, and all code is already open source in GitHub. All features are free forever and will never be charged in any form or content. -
13
Hypernomicon
Hypertext-infused philosophy personal database software
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. -
14
Neorg
Modernity meets insane extensibility
Neorg is an all-encompassing tool based around structured note taking, project and task management, time tracking, slideshows, writing typeset documents and much more. The premise is that all of these features are built on top of a single base file format (.norg), which the user only has to learn once to gain access to all of Neorg's functionality. Not only does this yield a low barrier for entry for new users it also ensures that all features are integrated with each other and speak the same underlying language. The file format is built to be expressive and easy to parse, which also makes .norg files easily usable anywhere outside of Neorg itself. A good way of thinking about Neorg is as a plaintext environment that can be adapted to a variety of use cases. If a problem can be represented using raw text, it can be solved using Neorg. -
15
Docear
An Academic Literature Suite
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. -
16
Lifeograph
Advanced personal note taking application
Lifeograph is a diary program to take personal notes on life. It has all essential functionality expected in a diary program and strives to have a clean and streamlined user interface. -
17
Awesome Mac
Collect premium software in various categories
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. -
18
BatNoter
An open source, markdown-based, self-hosted note taking webapp.
BatNoter is a web application that allows users to store notes in their git repository. This is a frontend project built using mainly react (typescript), redux-toolkit & mui components. BatNoter API is the backend implementation of REST APIs which are used by this react app. Login with GitHub. Create, edit, delete, organize & explore notes easily with a nice & clean user interface. Markdown format supported allowing users to add hyperlink, table, headings, code blocks, blockquote... etc inside notes. Editor allows preview of markdown. Quickly copy code from the code section using copy to clipboard button. Store notes directly at the root or use folders to organize them (nesting supported). Explore all the notes from a specific directory with single click. All the notes are stored inside user's github repository. Notes are cached to avoid additional API calls. URLs can be bookmarked. Dark/Light mode supported. -
19
Laverna
JavaScript note taking application with Markdown editor
Laverna has a simple and robust markdown editor, which can help you write faster than ever before with our live markdown preview. The editor can be switched to distraction free mode where you can focus solely on writing notes. Make your notes available on any device with your Dropbox & RemoteStorage account. You can make your notes available only to you by enabling encryption. Keep simple to do lists organized in notes and notebooks. You can manage your notes without ever lifting your hands from your keyboard. Keep snippets of code to have access to them anytime and anywhere. Do you prefer to stay anonymous? You do not need to go through registration process to start using Laverna. You can export your notes from Laverna and import them back anytime. You are not tied to using it forever. Every line of code can be reviewed on GitHub and is available under MPL-2.0 license. -
20
Notesnook
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative
Notesnook makes it impossible for anyone to spy on your notes. Unlike Evernote and other note taking apps, your data is private, not open for everyone to see. Ditch other note taking apps that don't care about your data privacy. With app lock and private notes vault, your personal diary & journal are always safe. Worried that your friend will read your private notes? Notesnook fixes that by having an app lock built-in. Use a pin or biometrics to protect your notes. Protect your online journal or personal diary with an extra layer of security. Your notes vault is a super secure way to store your passwords, credentials & other secrets. Free or Pro, you get the same level of privacy. Making privacy a paid feature means only the privileged few deserve it but privacy is your right. And rights don't have a price tag, or do they? To verify that your notes are actually encrypted (and we aren't just lying), you can use our open source tool, Vericrypt. -
21
obsidian.nvim
Obsidian Neovim
obsidian.nvim is a Neovim plugin that integrates with Obsidian, the popular note-taking and knowledge base app. It allows users to manage their Obsidian vaults directly from Neovim, offering markdown editing, backlinking, tag navigation, and link autocompletion features. This plugin bridges the gap between Obsidian’s personal knowledge management and Neovim’s powerful editing capabilities, enabling a seamless, keyboard-driven workflow. -
22
Notepad3
Light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting
Notepad3 is a fast and light-weight Scintilla-based text editor with syntax highlighting. Notepad3 is an excellent replacement for the default Windows text editor. Notepad3 offers many extra features over Notepad. It has a small memory footprint, but is powerful enough to handle most programming jobs. -
23
UPDATE 2024: Get a new version here: https://github.com/ivoras/EncryptedNotepad2 "Encrypted Notepad" does only one thing, but aims to do it perfectly - a Notepad-like simple text editor where files are saved (and later loaded) encrypted with industrial strength algorithms. Available both for the desktop (as a Java application) and on Android. Unencrypted data is never stored on-disk. Source is released (on SourceForge) under the BSD license.
-
24
PASTE
An app for storing code, text & more. A popular Open Source pastebin.
Paste is a PHP application for storing code, text and more. DEMO: https://paste.boxlabs.uk/ Initially forked from the freely available source pastebin.com used before the domain was sold in 2010, lots of improvements have been included over the years such as user accounts and a featureful administration backend. See https://github.com/boxlabss/PASTE/blob/master/docs/CHANGELOG.md -
25
LinWriter
small efficient text editor for Windows and Linux
LinWriter is a small robust utility that can write quick documents and notes for your every day use. Providing a friendly and intuitive interface, it offers a distraction free environment to enhance productivity for your documents and notes. Key features include a minimalistic interface and support for common formats such as TXT, Markdown, HTML and its custom format 'rtdoc', which allows rich text editing. Including are also basic formatting options, inserting graphics, bullets, numbered lists and checkboxes.
