Open Source Linux Text Editors
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View 39 business solutionsBrowse free open source Text Editors and projects for Linux below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Text Editors by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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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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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. -
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gitnote
A modern note taking app based on GIT
A modern note-taking app based on GIT that does not require a local GIT environment. Supports thinking brain maps, helping us to visualize things in a visual way, such as recording and inspiring ideas. It supports multiple export methods. Grapheditor is diagram software for making flowcharts, process diagrams, org charts, UML, ER, and network diagrams. Using markdown, you can easily create a web version of the presentation and support export. Supports multiple images hosting uploads, automatically inserts into the notes, and provides API to freely customize your own image hosting. Supports multiple images hosting uploads. Supports markdown writing app for presentations. Supports diagram editor. Supports thinking brain map. Git is the world's most advanced distributed version control system. GitNote has all the features of Git and does not need to rely on the local GIT environment. -
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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. -
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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.
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ThoughtStack
Organize your thoughts with ThoughtStack!
ThoughtStack is a folding-tree-based notepad. It's great for brain storming, outlining, planning, and all your other note-taking needs! -
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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 -
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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. -
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BrainDump is a hierarchical note-taking application written in C#. It is similar to TreePad, JTreePad, and other Tree-like note-taking applications.
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A small note taking program for the terminal. Tnote aims to be a small, quick and easy to use note taking app for the terminal similar to sticky style gui note taking apps such as Tomboy notes.
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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.
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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. -
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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. -
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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. -
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KTNotes
Speedy formatted advanced note-taking with the Kindle Touch.
KTNotes is a fast, advanced note-taking tool built for the Kindle Touch. With an emphasis on mathematical formulas, fractions and subscripts; the greek alphabet; and other Ǝxtra ∫pecial characters are available right on the main keyboard. Using prebuild binaries for the Kindle Touch of ffmpeg and mplayer, audio recording and playback of lectures are available right in the program. Finally, as KTNotes is built as a Kindlet, KTNotes is launchable right from the main page, with an easy installation sequence. -
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Lintextor
Create windows-compatible .txt documents on linux
This is a simple notepad developed for linux users to create Windows-compatible ".txt" documents. The created document opens seamlessly on Windows systems, without any paragraph or line issues. The output extension is ".txt". It includes English and Turkish languages. Bu, linux kullanıcılarının windows uyumlu ".txt" belgeleri oluşturması için geliştirilmiş basit bir not defteridir. Oluşturulan belge, windows sistemlerde paragaf ve satır sorunu olmadan sorunsuzca açılır. Çıktı uzantısı ".txt"'dir. İngilizce ve Türkçe dil içerir. -
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Aimed at being the all-in-one note taking software written in Java. Featuring multiple notebooks containing unlimited pages and notes within. Rich-text, html, and screenshots. Optional password protection and encryption options.
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A Web-Application working in conjunction with the obby protocol to view documents written by other people live on a website, integrated with mediawiki and equipped with full LaTex support. It's main purpose is Real-Time Note-Taking at University
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A Java note taking application using multiple formats for the storing of notes. Notes are stored in a structure notebook. Features a JSP, Swing and CLI front-ends. Enables multiple users to use over a network.
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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. -
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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.