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Revision as of 11:28, 19 June 2012

The table below compares features of notable notetaking software.

General features

Name Software license Cost Platforms Organizing principle(s) Tabbed sections Synchronizing PDF annotate, save Whiteboarding Keyboard text entry Write notes via pen-ink Handwriting Recognition Printing Formats Remarks
AllMyNotes Organizer Proprietary Freemium Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 tree No ? No No Yes No No Yes Proprietary, encrypted. Supports import from plain text, HTML, RTF, EverNote, KeyNote, CSV, images. Exports to plain text, html, rtf. Access restriction by password, alarms, tasks, icons, rich text, file attachments, outlining, portable, skins, multilingual, autobackup, capture text via tray icon, spell checker, auto-backups (history).
BasKet Note Pads GPL Free Linux ? No No No Yes Yes No No No Rich text (export as HTML) Features adding, managing notes by category, importing text files, images, sounds, autosave.
CintaNotes Proprietary Freeware Windows tags No No No No Yes No No ? export to Unicode text or XML Tagging and searching for tags
Circus Ponies NoteBook Proprietary Commercial software Mac OS X ? ? ? Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes Proprietary, export: html, opml, rtf, txt, doc, pdf Features adding, managing note entries, outlining, tabs, tagging, automatic indexing, audio recording, screen clipping, importing files (text, audio, video), link or embed files, etc.
DéjàClick Proprietary Commercial software Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows ? ? ? No No Yes ? ? Yes XML Features ability to annotate live web pages via DéjàNotes and share scripts. Notes may include rich text or HTML and can be printed and saved as a normal web page via the Firefox browser.
Emacs' org-mode GPL Free Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows ? Yes No No No Yes No No Yes LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, Taskjuggler, PDF, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar org-mode is a major mode of Emacs, fully customisable, use only plain-text, includes ToDos, spreadsheet, deadlines, encryption, reminders, agenda, calendar and many more
Evernote Proprietary Freemium Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7, Palm Pre and web-based ? No Yes Yes No Yes Partial[Note 1] Yes Yes Notes stored as XML. Both Free and Paid version allows notes in any file type.
Gnote GPL v3 Free Linux ? No Yes Yes No Yes ? ? Yes NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF Port of Tomboy to C++, wiki-style linked notes
Google Notebook Proprietary Free web-based ? No ? No No Yes ? ? Yes Web-based; export to ODF, Microsoft Word, PDF etc. via Google Docs no longer maintained
Jarnal GPL Free Any Java enabled platform: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows ? No Yes[Note 2] Yes Yes Yes Partial[Note 3] ? Yes ad-hoc (zip compatible archive containing an SVG per page, a config file, optional background PDFs/images). Can export to txt, html, jpg, pdf. Requires Java, is slow
Keeppy Proprietary Free web-based ? No Yes No No Yes No No Yes HTML/JSON. Allows compiling notes into stories and share them
KeyNote MPL Free Windows tree Yes ? ? ? Yes ? ? ?
Memonic Proprietary Freemium Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile web-based ? No Yes Yes No Yes No ? Yes Notes stored as XML. Can attach any filetype. Integrates into a number of different platforms.for free user only 100 notes supported.
Microsoft OneNote Proprietary Commercial software Android, iOS (iPad, iPhone), Symbian, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7, web-based, mobile web ? Yes Yes Yes[Note 4] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Proprietary Supports inserting images, audio and video-recording, screen clipping and drawings. Supports importing from web pages or any Windows application by means of a virtual printer. Supports attaching files of any types to the note, similar to email attachments. Can search text, audio, pictures and handwritten input in Microsoft Tablet PCs. Files can by synchronized to multiple desktop PCs, laptops, mobile phone, a Windows Live SkyDrive account or to a SharePoint site.
MyInfo Proprietary Commercial software Windows XP/Vista/7 ? Yes No Yes No Yes No No Yes Proprietary, encrypted. Supports import from plain text, RTF, CSV, Ms Word, images. Exports to plain text, HTML, RTF, CSV, Ms Word. Spell-checking, text styles, search in multiple files, import web pages, tags, filters, calendar, reminders, attachments.
MyNotex GPL Free Linux ? ? Yes No No Yes No No No Sqlite based, zipped attachments, export to HTML Features text formatting, file attachments, tagging, searching, notes management by subject, encryption with AES algorithm, text files and OpenOffice.org documents import. Multilingual.
Notational Velocity GPL v3 Free Mac OS X ? No Yes No No Yes No No Yes TXT, RTF Instant open and searching. Plain and RTF text only. Sync via dropbox, etc. or via SimpleNote service
Notee LGPL Free Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7, web-based ? ? Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? HTML Simple and easy to use
Notizen .NET Free Windows XP/Vista/7 tree No No No No Yes No No No TXT (ansi/unicode), RTF, ALX Tree Notes can stick on the desktop, Encryption, FTP-Updoad
Okular GPL Free Linux, Unix ? ? No Yes[Note 5] No Yes No No Yes PDF, PS, TIFF, CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS, ODF, various others Can export PDF + notes, for sending to other Okular users
PDF Studio Proprietary Commercial software Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, web-based ? ? ? Yes No Yes ? ? Yes PDF Review and markup PDF documents.
Personal Knowbase Proprietary Commercial software Windows ? ? ? No No Yes ? ? Yes export to RTF, HTML, TXT, CSV Supports tags, hypertext, attachments, passwords. Portable.
TiddlyWiki BSD Free Cross-platform (browser, web-based) tags (wikiwords) Via plugin Yes Via plugin No Yes ? ? Yes HTML extensible via plugins and user scripts
Tomboy LGPL Free Cross-platform ? ? Yes No No Yes ? ? Yes NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF, wiki-formats Reminders, to do-lists, formulae in LaTeX
TreeDBNotes Proprietary Freemium Microsoft Windows tree Yes ? ? ? Yes No No Yes RTF, HTML, txt tree-structured organizer
WikidPad BSD Free Cross-platform tags (wikiwords) No ? ? ? Yes No No Yes HTML personal wiki software
Windows Journal Proprietary Commercial software Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Windows Vista, Windows 7 ? No ? No ? Yes Yes Yes[Note 6] Yes Proprietary
Xournal GPL Free Linux, Windows, Mac OS X ? No ? Yes No Yes Yes No Yes XML, export to PDF Fast boot, smooth curves
Zim GPL Free Cross-platform tags (wikiwords) No No ? No Yes No No Yes, using installed web browser HTML, LaTeX
Name Software license Cost Platforms Organizing principle(s) Tabbed sections Synchronizing PDF annotate, save Whiteboarding Keyboard text entry Write notes via pen-ink Handwriting Recognition Printing Formats Remarks

Formatted text features, others

Name Drawing atop text Text box, flow diagram Outline bulleting with indent Text and paragraph formatting Insert hyperlink Insert image Insert table Insert audio Insert video Insert SWF Other objects Attachment Spell check Search
AllMyNotes Organizer ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes No No No No Alarms, check-boxes, bullets, phones, advanced links Yes Yes Yes
BasKet Note Pads ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes No No No No tags (check boxes, etc.) Yes Yes No
CintaNotes No No No No Yes No No No No No ? No No Yes
Circus Ponies NoteBook ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
DéjàClick ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Emacs' org-mode ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No advanced linking, bullets, tags, checkboxes, full spreadsheet, embedding of programming code, formulars, markup Yes Yes Yes
Evernote No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Check-box, line, tags Yes Yes Yes
Gnote ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Google Notebook ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Jarnal ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
KeyNote ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Memonic ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Microsoft OneNote Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes OLE, bullets, line, flags Yes Yes Yes
MyInfo ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No OLE, bullets, numbering, page breaks, advanced links Yes Yes Yes
MyNotex ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? Yes
Notational Velocity ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Notee ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? HTML ? ? Yes
Notizen .NET ? ? ? Yes ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Yes
Okular ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
PDF Studio ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Personal Knowbase ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TiddlyWiki ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Tomboy ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
TreeDBNotes ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
WikidPad ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Windows Journal ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Xournal ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Zim ? ? ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? ? ? LaTeX integration Yes Yes Yes
Name Drawing atop text Text box, flow diagram Outline bulleting with indent Text and paragraph formatting Insert hyperlink Insert image Insert table Insert audio Insert video Insert SWF Other objects Attachment Spell check Search

See also

Notes

  1. ^ No support for ink notes in Mac version. Cannot mix ink with text
  2. ^ One instance can be begun in server mode or a web server (webdav?) used. See manual page
  3. ^ No pressure sensitivity
  4. ^ OneNote 2010 and OneNote 2007 Service Pack 2 and beyond have it built in. A Save As PDF add-in is available for earlier versions of OneNote 2007.[1]
  5. ^ Saved in separate file
  6. ^ Handwritten notes are searchable

References

  1. ^ Can save to PDF with this add-in: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en
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