![]() Zim is an open-source desktop wiki application, Its perfect to take notes and organize them together as connect them to each other. It also provides a self-hosted web version. It works fine on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Laverna is an open source project released under MPL 2.0 license. Laverna is a note-taking application offers many features despite it's simple user-interface as note synchronization and backup to Dropbox and remote services, markdown editing, distraction-free mode, todo notes, code highlighting, importing and exporting notes, and powerful encryption for notes. Turtle has powerful features as client-side encryption, markdown support, tagging, powerful search, sharing, browser extensions with clipboard support, TeX math support, file attachment, and RTL (Right-to-Left) support. It has Google Chrome and Firefox browsers extensions. It works fine with Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows. Turtle is an open source note-taking application, built to organize notes, passwords, bookmarks, and images. We have covered special note-taking styles and note-taking editors in this article: 12 Open source Free Note-taking Desktop Apps with Unique Features. We choose the notes with advanced and usable features as powerful encryption, cloud backup and synchronization, private note support, and multi-platform as it can run on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. There is free software with a set of features that can compete and win with a commercial solution. To play with markdown, use Dingus.Note taking, is a daily requirement for most of us, however, finding a good solution that can compete with commercial ones is hard. Learn more about QOwnNotes on its github repository. Some possibilities include - Queue Own Notes, Cone Notes, Connotes, QNote, QNotes. How do you pronounce QOwnNotes? For something that I am going to use every waking moment, I need to know this. If you need a quality markdown notepad for maintaining your personal knowledge base, give it a try. I have been using it extensively this past week and recommend it very highly. QOwnNotes has replaced markdown editors and even geany for editing markdown files. There are other features you will find useful and more. Most of the menu items are keyboard accessible. ![]() In QOwnNotes, confusingly enough there is a feature called workspaces, but it is for different layouts we would like to use. This is particularly useful when we have many text files in a complex folder hierarchy. To re-enable it, select the following menu item. It might not be displayed by default or if you changed to Minimal layout mode. To view and switch between note folders, there is a panel available. Notes in a note folder will only show up in that note folder.Ĭreate all your note folders and designate one note folder as active note folder. Each note folder will act as a workspace. We can create multiple note folders in the settings dialog. Here is an example from one of my note folders with two tags, csharp and linux. All tags created across the the entire note folder called testing will show up in the middle. If we now select the dotnet folder, in the bottom panel, we will only see the files from this folder.Īpart from this display of folder hierarchy, we can also apply tags to files. In the bottom panel, we see all the files in the learning folders, including its subfolders. In the top panel, we see the folders and learning folder is selected. As you can see here, the folder structure that we created before is showing up as is. select path to learning folder as the note folder path.create a note folder testing from the settings dialog.To be able to view this structure inside QOwnNotes Note that the files learning-resources.md and tutorials.md are at the root level of the learning folder.Įnter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Let us say, we have the following structure with some notes. This is how the editor and preview look like. ![]() ![]() With the live preview present, I have no use for other Linux desktop markdown editors like typora, abricotine, retext and remarkable. QOwnNotes has a markdown preview panel which lets us view our rendered markdown live next to the editor panel. It may either be public accessible website or a website local to my machine. This is crucial for me because my fundamental goal is to create a personal knowledge base accessible to me in the browser. Files can be written in plain text and saved as markdown files. Markdown is the default plaintext editing option. QOwnNotes is a open source notepad with markdown support and hierarchical notes. I would like to provide a short rundown on the features of QOwnNotes in this post. ![]() I have written a few days back about the search for near perfect note taking software. ![]()
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