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    AkelPad
    A simple notepad-like text editor with many features. It is designed to be a small and fast.
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    Downloads: 2,382 This Week
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    Notes

    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.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    GloboNote

    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.
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    Downloads: 41 This Week
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    Laverna

    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.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Notable

    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.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    BoostNote Legacy

    BoostNote Legacy

    Real-time collaborative writing

    Note-taking app for programmers. App is available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Built with Electron, React + Redux, Webpack, and CSS modules. Write overviews of systems including concepts, terminology definitions and descriptions of how these concepts work together. Having a 'living document' to help drive dialogue and exchange of ideas through collaboration helps this process significantly. It’s time to aggregate your knowledge in a single place. Build a team-wide knowledge management system to solve the information silos. Organize your dev team's sprint backlog and visualize them with status, assignees, reviewers, due date and everything you need. Reduce repeated progress updates in the company chat and standup meetings. Collaborate with your teammates in a doc with Boost Note's real-time editing. Boost Note's editor makes it easy to write a tech spec with Charts.js, Mermaid, Latex, PlantUML and so on.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Notepad X
    Notepad X is an alternative open source text editor for Microsoft Windows, with a lot of customization options created to help users managing text documents featuring tab navigation.
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    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    Perpetual Notes

    Perpetual Notes

    Write beautifully. Organize easily. Find everything.

    Take notes faster. Find information easily. Save notes in RTF with rich text formatting and images, meeting notes, web pages, projects, travel plan, research drafts - with Perpetual Notes as your note taking app, have fun with note taking again. Runs on Windows 7/8/10.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Notepad3

    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.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    LinWriter

    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.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Crispy Synced Notes

    Crispy Synced Notes

    A note taking program with WebDAV sync

    An note taking program with WebDAV sync capabilities. It works on a local (and WebDAV) directory and shows the items (text/image/binary) in a tree view. Any changes are reflected in the file system directly. Features: - group notes and images in a tree structure (using folders) - can work on any directory on your machine - technically works like a file browser with inline text editing - synchronizes with any WebDAV server (optionally using SSL/TLS) - allows one-way and two-way synchronization - allows to encrypt your files locally and remote using AES256 - multi language support You can obtain the full source code at: https://crispy-cow.de/git/CrispySyncNote.git Latest changes: 2.1.0: Updated for Java 9 and up 2.0.2: Added more UI translation, updated greek language (thanks to geogeo) 2.0.1: Bugfix: Sync state is now copied when duplicating workspace due to change in encryption settings
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Notes Keeper

    Notes Keeper

    A program for saving and organizing notes

    Notes Keeper 5.2.3.0 Don't you like your notes to be saved in the clouds, where you can't control. Do you like to have all your notes with you. Then you need Notes Keeper. A program for saving and organizing notes Notes Keeper will let you create notes, format them in all ways. You can add files, images, text and very basic tables to the notes. Change sentences/words cases and lock them from other people. Organize your notes with folders and tree. After you finish export your note(s) to a text file or rtf file, print it from your printer, or send it as email or attachment to you family or friends. Its free. Not like any other note taking software. feel free to report any bugs .NET 4.6 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Update 3 runtime are needed to run Notes Keeper
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Boostnote
    Boostnote is an open source note-taking app for programmers. Apps available for Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and iOS. Built with Electron, React + Redux, Webpack and CSSModules.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Alphabetizer

    Alphabetizer

    Take a list of words or sentences and arrange them alphabetically.

    Alphabetizer lets anyone take a list of words or sentences and arranged them in alphabetical order easily. Alphabetizer is a tool that takes a list of words or phrases and arranged them in alphabetical order. This tool is useful for organizing information, creating glossaries, sorting names, or any task where the items in a list need to be in alphabetical order. Overall, Alphabetizer can save time and effort by quickly organizing information and making it easier to read and comprehend.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Text Line Duplicate Remover

    Text Line Duplicate Remover

    Remove duplicate lines from your text

    This standalone offline web browser tool helps you remove duplicate lines from your text, with additional text processing options. Simply open it in your browser by double-clicking the html file. It also includes the source code too. I made this when I was working with long lists of entries and needed something to automatically clean them up. As a bonus you can also change the Sentence Case of the text, make it lowercase, UPPERCASE or Sentence case.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Encrypted Notepad
    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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    ExcellentWriter

    ExcellentWriter

    Make Office a novel writing tool.

    ExcellentWriter is supposed to be a tool which lets you organize, write and format your novel inside Excel and in the end lets you use the power of Word to do the finishing touches. Sounds crazy? Is crazy! What Word alone lacks in this kind of features is provided with this tool. This way you can stay inside the Office family if you like these programs. Get id
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    QuickFox

    Everyday note-taking solution.

    QuickFox is a multi-tab note taking add-on for Firefox that uses the integrated bookmarks system or a single sqlite database to store notes. Therefore, if you already have either a bookmarks synchronization add-on (e.g: XMarks) or a file synchronization software (e.g: Dropbox, SugarSync, Syncplicity), your notes will be synchronized automatically.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    iBox
    iBox is a powerful information management tools for Android, which gives you a safe and secure way to store all of your critical information. It could be credit card numbers, accounts, passwords, marketing plans, product ideas, minutes and much more.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    ConvertText

    ConvertText

    ConvertText lets anyone change the case of your text easily.

    ConvertText is a very handy text tool where you can change between cases like Uppercase, Title Case, Random Case, Reverse Text, Backwards Text, Phonetic Alphabet and 1337 (Leet Speak).
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    JNotepad

    A really basic notepad written in Java

    A really basic notepad written in Java. It was developed for educational purposes, but I wish to share my work with the Community.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    NeechPad is for quick note taking in a tabbed environment. Because the white space within the tab is a rich text box, the user can copy in links, word text, excel tables, and photographs. Application settings include a "save all tabs on exit" feature
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Pythopad

    Pythopad

    A free Python source code editor and Notepad replacement for Windows

    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    SemNotes

    SemNotes

    Semantic Note-taking tool for KDE

    SemNotes is a semantic note taking tool for KDE4, built on top of Nepomuk-KDE. The tool is still under development, but it is already usable, provided that KDE4 is installed and the Nepomuk running.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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