Markdown-centric notes with optional E2EE sync and broad cross-platform clients.
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)
Outliner + graph PKM with block references and plugin ecosystem.
Hierarchical note app with rich text, scripting, and optional self-hosted sync server.
PHP/Laravel wiki and documentation platform with books and shelves.
Knowledge ops with team authoring (Confluence-class positioning).
Lightweight memo hub with tagging and sharing.
Fast collaborative knowledge base (React/Node) with Slack SSO patterns.
Personal todo list web application.
End-to-end encrypted collaboration suite (docs, sheets, whiteboard).
Self-hostable read-it-later with tagging and full-text search.
Desktop journal with calendar navigation, tags, and templates—stores files locally.
Mind-mapping and knowledge organization tool evolved from FreeMind with scripting and filters.
BibTeX/BibLaTeX reference manager with DOI lookup, grouping, and LibreOffice integration.
Handwriting note-taking and PDF annotation with pressure-sensitive stylus support.
:bookmark: Personal mini-web in text
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place.
Self-hosted bookmark manager that is designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker.
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
Simple bookmark manager built with Go
Official Anytype client for MacOS, Linux, and Windows
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.
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
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
A personal knowledge management and sharing system for VSCode
Your One-Stop Publication Workbench
HedgeDoc - Ideas grow better together
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
Think fearlessly with end-to-end encrypted notes and files. For issues, visit https://standardnotes.com/forum or https://standardnotes.com/help.
Simplenote for Web, Windows, and Linux
Everything about note management. All in Zotero.
An open-source, self-hosted personal AI note tool prioritizing privacy, built using TypeScript .
Sketch and take handwritten notes.
An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua
A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.
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.
Collect your thoughts and notes without leaving the command line.
🌻 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.
Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js
Docmost is an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software. It is an open-source alternative to Confluence and Notion.
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.
CodiMD - Realtime collaborative markdown notes on all platforms.
A self-hosted, database-less note taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.
LinkAce is a self-hosted archive to collect links of your favorite websites.
Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.
API Documentation Browser
Thinking notebook and Markdown editor.
The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting
Notes manager for macOS/iOS
Just like TextEdit on Mac but dedicated to Markdown.
