nvPY!

You will need version 4 or higher of `firefox` https://www.mozilla.org/firefox
to run Pencil as a Firefox Extension. Linux users will need version 4 or higher of either `firefox`, `iceweasel` or `xulrunner` https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/XULRunner,
or version 25 or higher of `palemoon` https://www.palemoon.org/.
The Windows installer and OS X archive has everything you need built-in. Windows, Linux, OS X & Firefox Packages are available for download from the Releases Page https://github.com/prikhi/pencil/releases.
You can also install the Firefox Add-on from the Mozilla Add-on Repository https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pencil-prototyping/.
To install the OS X package, unzip the archive and copy the `Pencil.app` folder t

nvPY 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
  • Simplenote

  • Made by the company behind WordPress , Simplenote is an easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas, and more. Your notes stay updated across all your devices. No buttons to press. It just works. Your notes are synced across your devices when you create, add to or change them.

    tags: electron-based file-versioning markdown-support note-taking productivity-app
  • 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
  • Tomboy

  • Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of those desperate souls with home-made, buggy, or not-quite-perfect notes systems?

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

  • WizNote is a Note software, which is especially designed for Internet users and mobile Internet users. WizNote focuses more on notes of rapid collection, management, reading and sharing. WizNote is smaller, more stable, and more suitable for computers, phones and mobile devices. It has a more abundant notes organization and rapid fulltext retrieval. Using associated online service, you can synchronise the notes between your computer and your cell phone.

    tags: Portable journal markdown note-taking notepad
  • 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
  • QOwnNotes

  • QOwnNotes is the open source plain-text notepad with markdown support and todo-list manager for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that works together with the notes application of ownCloud.

    tags: configurable dropbox hostable ical ical-calendar-sync