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  • 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
  • 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
  • wikidPad

  • wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. What makes wikidPad different from other notepad applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information. Links in a wiki are created by typing in WikiWords. A WikiWord is any mixed case word typed into the editor. TodoList or JohnDoe are example WikiWords. The term wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian, and wikis are all about quickly linking your information together. Wikis are not a new concept, in fact there are many web based wiki servers avai »

    tags: cross-linking cross-referencing getting-things-done note-taking notebook
  • RedNotebook

  • RedNotebook is a graphical diary and journal helping you keep track of notes and thoughts. It includes a calendar navigation, customizable templates, export functionality and word clouds. You can also format, tag and search your entries.

    tags: calendar diary journal note-taking office-xfce
  • CintaNotes

  • CintaNotes is an ultra-ergonomic, productivity-boosting notetaking app for Windows. It will help you collect, organize, and find any information.

    tags: Portable getting-things-done knowledge-management lists note-taking
  • Flamory

  • Flamory remembers things, so you don't have to. Make snapshots of web pages, files and desktop apps. You can find snapshots later using full-text search and thumbnails. Paste them anywhere as links or screenshots.

    tags: bookmark-manager bookmarks chrome-extension explorer-integration firefox-extension
  • 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
  • KeyNote NF

  • KeyNote NF is a flexible, multi-featured tabbed notebook, based on Windows standard RichEdit control. It's always accessible with a single keypress, even if you work in another application.

    tags: encrypted-notes multi-language note-taking notebook outliner
  • nvALT

  • nvALT is a fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications by Brett Terpstra and ElasticThreads.

    tags: integrated-search markdown markdown-support note-taking simplenote
  • Piggydb

  • Piggydb is a Web notebook application that provides you with a platform to build your knowledge personally or collaboratively. With Piggydb, you can create highly structured content by connecting knowledge fragments to each other to build a network structure, which is more flexible and expressive than a tree structure. Fragments can also be classified using hierarchical tags.

    tags: concept-map knowledge-management mind-mapping notebook
  • BasKet

  • A note taking application for KDE. Lots of features. This multi-purpose note-taking application helps you to: * Easily take all sort of notes * Collect research results and share them * Centralize your project data and reuse it * Quickly organize your thoughts in idea boxes * Keep track of your information in a smart way * Make intelligent To Do lists

    tags: getting-things-done note-taking notebook notepad todo-manager
  • Zoho Notebook

  • Online Notebook application: Zoho Notebook lets you combine text, images, audio, video, RSS feeds, documents and much more. Online Collaboration: You can share a single image or selection of text from a page rather than the whole document, giving the author absolute control over what information is shared with others. Notebook also provides real-time collaborative editing. Firefox plug-ins for instant web clipping; Skype integration for instant chat and IP telephony.

    tags: audio-transcription audio-with-notes cloud-sync getting-things-done handwriting-recognition
  • 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
  • MyTetra

  • MyTetra is open source and cross platform personal manager for information accumulation. It is powerful program for data memorization and structuring notes.

    tags: Portable note-taking notebook outliner personal-information-manager