Open Source Word Processors

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Govel is a lightweight novel writing and organizing software designed with the intention to leave your hands where they belong: on the keyboard. There are no fancy menus, submenus, dialogues, buttons, tabs, you name it. You don't even need to use the mouse, which makes your overall workflow faster than in any other program. You can still customize the visual appearance while beeing maximum productive. And the best of all: Govel is completly free.