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Note taking

Hierarchical

tree-like structure

• Workflowy
  • Checkvist
  • Dynalist
• QOwnNotes
• Org mode
• TreeSheets
• Thorny
• Trillium – desktop only
• Outline SAS / selfhosted

Markdown

text files based storage, desktop apps

• nvALT
• Typora
• Notable – nested tags

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from NValt

Ideal Requirements

• text based
• tree lists – see Workflowy
• markdown or similar, ideally inline markdown preview
• desktop & mobile
• taxonomies
• edit locally, or at least back-up locally – in the way that Google Keep doesn’t

Existing Tools

• Google Keep
• nvALT → nvUltra
• Google Docs
• ntile
• Workflowy
  • Checkvist
  • Dynalist
• QOwnNotes
• Org mode
• TreeSheets
• Thorny
• Notable
• Trillium – HN thread
• Standard Notes
• Roam
• Go-For-It
• Elephant – Notetaker with a classic interface.
• RedNotebook
• Obsidian – powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

Misc

• Notion
• Sciter Notes
• Padlet

Reference

• Ask HN: What do you want from a note-taking app?
• Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?
• Is there a good WorkFlowy alternative?

Misc

• NVAlt in Sublime Text? See https://github.com/dansheffler/Notational-Sublime