Applications
This is non-comprehensive list of a few personal organization applications:
- Bear
- Boostnote
- Evernote - the venerable giant in this space, but seems to have trended down from its 2013 peak.
- HackMD - markdown focused
- Inkdrop - markdown focused
- Joplin
- Keep - a simplified competitor from Google to Evernote that imposes a limit of 50 tags
- MediaWiki - what this website runs on, and what Wikipedia runs on. Some people use it for personal notetaking.
- NoteLedge
- Notion.so - one of many upstart competitors to Evernote
- Org-mode - hierarchical notetaking system originally built on top of Emacs, but has its own wiki text format that doesn't seem to rely on parenthesis, and is reasonably parse-able and readable outside of Emacs.
- OneNote - Microsoft's notable competitor.
- Quip
- Simplenote - Automattic's competitor to Evernote (Automattic is the company built around WordPress)
- Standard Notes - /r/StandardNotes on reddit - a security/privacy/openness focused competitor to Evernote. (Github: https://github.com/standardnotes/)
- TiddlyWiki - personal wiki that was very popular in 2006, but declined in popularity along with wikis in general
- Tomboy
- Turtl
- WorkFlowy - a hierarchy-focused notetaking application, which appears to be Orgmode-inspired (see below) but MUCH more usable, and more limited. Exports to OPML
- Zim - personal wiki software for GNOME that eventually replaced Tomboy as the most popular GNOME desktop option
- GitHub pages in a private repo
- a sloppy mess of text files on a POSIX-compliant filesystem
The point of the list above is to have a reasonably broad survey of the options, but avoid having an overwhelming list. Over time, each of the applications on this list should have a myndmess-wiki article describing how the application meets the requirements of the myndmess ecosystem (or perhaps, how it doesn't fit into the ecosystem). As of this writing (on 2020-05-08), User:RobLa is pretty opinionated about almost all of the items on the list, but as this page grows, that will become less-and-less the case.
Comparisons
- TODO - create Category:Comparisons
- AlternativeTo.net
- Alternatives to Evernote: https://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/
- A few options to consider on ^that list:
- Alternatives to Evernote: https://alternativeto.net/software/evernote/
- Slant.co
- "What are the best Evernote alternatives?" https://www.slant.co/topics/2463/~best-evernote-alternatives
- Fabio Spampinato (the author of Notable.md) put together a notetaking app feature comparison chart which could be useful here on Myndmess wiki. Obviously biased toward Notable.md, but seeing the list of features that inspired someone to make yet another system is helpful.