Alternatives to Tomboy

  • CintaNotes

    CintaNotes is an ultra-ergonomic, productivity-boosting notetaking app for Windows. It will help you collect, organize, and find any information.

    Freemium PortableApps.com Windows

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  • nvALT

    nvALT is a fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications by Brett Terpstra and ElasticThreads.

    Free Mac

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  • Nuclino

    Nuclino is the easiest way to organize and share knowledge in teams. Create real-time collaborative documents and connect them instantly like a wiki. Use the tree, board, and graph view to explore and organize your knowledge visually. It's great for…

    Freemium Chrome OS Linux Mac iPad iPhone Windows Web-Based Android

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  • 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. The code of Leanote can be found on Github but you have to pay to get the app fr…

    Open Source Freemium Self-Hosted Android Tablet Linux Mac iPad iPhone Windows Web-Based Android

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  • Zoho Notebook

    Online Notebook application: Zoho Notebook lets you combine text, images, audio, video, RSS feeds, documents and much more. Online Collaboration: You can share a single image or selection of text from a page rather than the whole document, giving th…

    Free Personal Apple Watch Mac iPhone Web-Based Android

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  • 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.

    Free Linux Mac Windows

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  • Markor

    📝 Create notes and manage your to-do list using simple markup formats🌲 Work completely offline - whenever, wherever👌 Compatible with any other plaintext software on any platform – edit with notepad or vim, filter with grep, convert to PDF or create …

    Open Source Free F-Droid Android

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  • Leafpad

    Leafpad is a lightweight text editor that emphasizes simplicity. As development focuses on keeping weight down to a minimum, only the most essential features are implemented in the editor.

    Free Cygwin MacPorts BSD Linux Mac

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  • ResophNotes

    Quick Notes on Windows Features •Simple and fast notes on Windows •Sync online with Simplenote •Support proxy (require HTTPS protocol) •Optional Proxy username and password •Access notes on iPhone and iPad through Simplenote app •Portable version su…

    Free Windows

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    Next generation desktop rich content editor that saves documents with themes. HTML & Markdown compatible. For Windows, OS X & Linux.

    Open Source Free Linux Mac Windows

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  • Quiver

    Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code and Markdown within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX cells, and find any note instantly via the full-text search. ## Mix Te…

    Commercial Mac

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  • Inkdrop

    Inkdrop enables hackers to keep track of their daily progress when it comes to hacking in one convenient spot without having to rely on traditional word processors. Inkdrop features support for #Markdown with the ability to do code syntax highlighti…

    Commercial Linux Mac iPhone Windows Android

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  • 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 compute…

    Open Source Commercial BSD Android Tablet Windows Phone Windows S Linux Mac iPad iPhone Windows Web-Based Android

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  • Elephant

    Elephant is a notetaker with a classic interface you already know. Keep your notes to yourself. No accounts or clouds. For syncing use Dropbox, Github, rsync, ... No feature bloat or redesigns, ever. Elephant stores notes in plain files and folders.…

    Open Source Free Linux Mac Windows

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  • Cryptee

    Cryptee is a cross platform, encrypted and secure home for your private documents, notes, files and photos. You can take notes with photos, videos and audio in Cryptee and even attach a PDF or any other filetype. It uses a strong client-side AES256 …

    Freemium Chrome OS Android Tablet Chrome iPad iPhone Web-Based Android

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  • Notational Velocity

    Notational Velocity is a mouseless application for storing and retrieving notes. With Notational Velocity, searching for notes is not a separate action; rather, it is the primary interface. Searching encompasses all notes content and occurs instantl…

    Open Source Free Mac

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  • AllMyNotes Organizer

    AllMyNotes Organizer is a multi-functional hierarchical information manager for Windows. Store all your Notes in virtual folders in one file! Everyone is unique so AllMyNotes Organizer offers freedom of individualizing your notes in totally customiz…

    Freemium Windows

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  • MyTetra

    MyTetra is open source and cross platform personal manager for information accumulation. It is powerful program for data memorization and structuring notes. Features: Infinite ramify tree for notes group Arbitrary sorted notes at his branch Arbitrar…

    Open Source Free Linux Mac Windows

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  • ColorNote

    ColorNote is a simple notepad app. It give you a quick and simple notepad editing experience when you write notes, email, message, shopping lists and todo lists. ColorNote makes taking a note easier than any other notepad apps. Features: - Organize …

    Free Android Tablet Android

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  • Alternote

    Gorgeous note-taking app for Mac with Evernote integration. Alternote has pixel-perfect interface, robust search, distraction-free mode and lots more. It is designed to be the most convenient and natural way to make notes, collect information, write…

    Commercial Mac

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