Express yourself with freedom, no spying, no tracking — only private notes. Unlike Evernote and other note apps, your data is private — not open for everyone to see.
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
Supernote - Go Paperless with Our Digital Note-Taking Solution
Supernote is a modern E-Ink tablet and digital notebook designed for handwriting, note-taking, and sketching. Shop Supernote online today.
Reflect
A beautifully minimalist note-taking app designed to mirror the way you think. Now with a native AI integration.
Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app! Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI. 100% free & open source. https://t.co/UZWGkUDJ6d
Introducing Whisper – an open source voice note taking app!Record voice notes and transcribe them into lists, blogs, & more with AI.100% free & open source. pic.twitter.com/UZWGkUDJ6d— Hassan (@nutlope) July 22, 2025
What's the point of a note-taking app?
The true purpose of a note-taking app is to facilitate deep learning through three interconnected processes—externalizing ideas, internalizing them into new insights, and resurfacing them over time—and good design should minimize accidental friction while preserving the productive friction that enables genuine understanding.
Note-ifying all the things (with Boris Mann)
Conversation about note-taking, the overwhelm of tools, and future possibilities. (shortlink:…
Curvenote® (@curvenote.com)
Curvenote's mission is to free science from static PDF documents to enable researchers to continuously share more interactive, reproducible, and richly-linked #openscience content. Curvenote develops authoring and publishing tools for researchers.
siyuan-note/siyuan
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
Treehouse: Note-taking Frontend
An open source note-taking frontend to extend and customize. Bring your own backend or configure a built-in backend to get started.
Margin - Chrome Web Store
Annotate and highlight any webpage, with your notes saved to the decentralized AT Protocol.
Margin - Chrome Web Store
Annotate and highlight any webpage, with your notes saved to the decentralized AT Protocol.
Bluenotes is a fully-featured fork of the Bluesky social app, with the addition of a Community Notes feature that works just like Twitter's Community Notes. We're currently in Phase 1 of the beta. Please check it out and leave your feedback here! bluenotes.social
Bluenotes
bluenotes.socialNote taking apps
Notes, Outliners, Markdown Editors, PKMs, Memexs, Second Brains, Commonplace books, and more
Knowledgebase Apps (by Boris) — Semble
Treehouse: Note-taking Frontend
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Wiki (by Boris) — Semble
self-hostable notion replacements (by Tyler Lawson) — Semble
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