Annotary!

What really struck me] is just how often I end up using the thing...Annotary is simple, and works like a charm. Annotary is a great tool for people who do research or work frequently with online text. The simplicity Annotary] offers is unparalleled in other apps...It takes collaboration to a new level. Nancy Messieh, MakeUseOf

Annotary alternatives

  • Laverna

  • Laverna is a JavaScript note-taking web application with a Markdown editor and encryption support. It's built to be an open source alternative to Evernote.

    tags: aes-encryption cloud-sync desktop-client diary dropbox-integration
  • Microsoft OneNote

  • Microsoft OneNote, part of the Microsoft Office Suite , is a digital notebook application that gives people one place to gather notes and information. It also offers shared notebooks, syncing between multiple computers and devices via Windows Live online storage, and optical character recognition (OCR) for getting text from pictures, business cards, etc.

    tags: auto-saving cloud-sync embedded-media getting-things-done handwritten-notes
  • XMarks

  • Xmarks is a cross-browser, bookmark-synchronization service for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iPhone, Android & iPad. Xmarks also offers search enhancement and web discovery based on sites bookmarked by users. Multi-language support, and can be used very simply with a browser-extension.

    tags: bookmark-manager bookmark-organize bookmark-server bookmark-sync bookmarks
  • CherryTree

  • A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

    tags: Portable fast-search german multi-language note-taking
  • Instapaper

  • Instapaper is a simple tool to save web pages for reading later. To save web pages for later offline reading: go to Instapaper.com, install the Read Later bookmark, and mark any pages you'd like to read later.

    tags: bookmarking chrome-extension ifttt-integration offline-reading read-later
  • Notezilla

  • Take quick notes on Post-It(r) like sticky notes on Windows desktop, stick those notes to websites, documents & folders. Set reminder alarm to each sticky note. To avoid desktop clutter, you can organize those sticky notes inside folders. Send sticky notes to another computer over local network (LAN) or Internet, Sync sticky notes between computers using the Notezilla.Net cloud service, access your sticky notes on any smart-device such as iOS(iPhone/iPad), Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry etc. »

    tags: checklists getting-things-done note-organizer note-taking notes-manager
  • Standard Notes

  • Love Notes. Love Encryption.

    tags: aes-encryption android-sync cloud-sync content-filtering decentralized
  • Leanote

  • Leanote provides services for note and blog. You can use "note" as your personal notebook, if you want to share with friends, just publish note or notebook to the blog.

    tags: Portable blog-publishing export-to-html full-text-search latex-math
  • NixNote

  • NixNote, formerly Nevernote, is an open source client for Evernote . It is written in Java so it will also run on Windows & OS-X, but the primary focus has been to try and get a usable environment for Linux.

    tags: evernote-client note-taking
  • Alternote

  • Gorgeous note-taking app for Mac with Evernote integration. Alternote has pixel-perfect interface, robust search, distraction-free mode and lots more. It is designed to be the most convenient and natural way to make notes, collect information, write down your ideas, feelings and memories

    tags: distraction-free-writing evernote evernote-integration night-mode no-distraction
  • Oinker

  • Oinker looks like a plain chat program on the surface, but it allows you to save the specified messages (called ‘oinks’ in Oinker) on the spot, and more importantly, it allows you to connect the messages in an infinite number of ways to build sophisticated contents.

    tags: chat-clients document-management document-sharing documentation ideas