How to: Note-Taking
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[Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/) is an open source note-taking app that you can securely access from any device. 

[HedgeDoc](https://hedgedoc.org/) is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor. 

[Lapce](http://lapce.dev/) is a Lightning-fast And Powerful Code Editor written in pure Rust with a UI in Druid (which is also written in Rust). 

[nb](https://xwmx.github.io/nb) is a 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. 

[Outline](https://www.getoutline.com/) is the fastest knowledge base for growing teams. It provides a beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible. 

[Rustpad](https://rustpad.io/#yAbbW9) is an open-source collaborative text editor based on the operational transformation algorithm. Share a link to this pad with others, and they can edit from their browser while seeing your changes in real time.

[Turtl](https://turtlapp.com/) is a secure, collaborative notebook for bookmarks or passwords, files or shopping lists.

[The Everything App](https://anytype.io/) is an app where you can do everything: Protect your thoughts & data with end-to-end encryption. Local, on-device encryption. Only you have encryption keys. Offline account creation: control your keys, own your data. No server, no gatekeeper: peer-to-peer sync on local networks. Locally store your data, self-host your backups where you please.

[TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/) is a single-file mode wiki application for todo lists, effective project management tool and of course writing drafts and notes. It has extensions for all the major browsers.

[Laverna](https://laverna.cc/) is a note taking application with Markdown editor and encryption support. Consider it like open source alternative to Evernote. 

[Notesnook](https://notesnook.com/) is a fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote. 

[Zettlr](https://www.zettlr.com/) is an open-source Markdown editor for the 21st century.

[Carnet](https://www.getcarnet.app/) is a complete open source note taking app. It has extensions for all the major browsers.

[Frog](https://tenderowl.com/work/Frog) is a tool that quickly extract text from almost any source: youtube, screencasts, PDFs, webpages, photos, etc. Grab the image and get the text.

[Zeal](https://zealdocs.org/) is an offline documentation browser for software developers inspired by [Dash](https://kapeli.com/dash).