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Notes & Knowledge

Tools for capturing ideas and building a second brain—local-first options with optional sync you control. Journals (RedNotebook), mind maps (Freeplane), stylus notes (Xournal++), and bibliography (JabRef) cover research-shaped workflows.

Tools in this category (49)

Markdown-centric notes with optional E2EE sync and broad cross-platform clients.

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Outliner + graph PKM with block references and plugin ecosystem.

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Hierarchical note app with rich text, scripting, and optional self-hosted sync server.

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Knowledge ops with team authoring (Confluence-class positioning).

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Fast collaborative knowledge base (React/Node) with Slack SSO patterns.

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End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite (docs, sheets, whiteboard).

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Desktop journal with calendar navigation, tags, and templates—stores files locally.

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Mind-mapping and knowledge organization tool evolved from FreeMind with scripting and filters.

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BibTeX/BibLaTeX reference manager with DOI lookup, grouping, and LibreOffice integration.

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Handwriting note-taking and PDF annotation with pressure-sensitive stylus support.

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:bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

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⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.

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Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.

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A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search

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Official Anytype client for MacOS, Linux, and Windows

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There can be more than Notion and Miro. AFFiNE(pronounced [ə‘fain]) is a next-gen knowledge base that brings planning, sorting and creating all together. Privacy first, open-source, customizable and ready to use.

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A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.

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FastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letting you easily develop and deploy complex question-answering systems without the

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A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode

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A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.

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Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.

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An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .

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An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua

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A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.

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CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

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Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.

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🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.

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Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

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Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.

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Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.

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CodiMD - Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms.

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A self-hosted, database-less note taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.

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LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.

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Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.

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The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting

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