Comparison of notetaking software - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

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Name	License	Platforms	Tabbed sections	Synchronizing Data synchronization Data synchronization is the process of establishing consistency among data from a source to a target data storage and vice versa and the continuous harmonization of the data over time. It is fundamental to a wide variety of applications, including file synchronization and mobile device...	PDF annotate, save	Whiteboarding Whiteboarding Whiteboarding is the placement of shared files on an on-screen shared notebook or whiteboard. Videoconferencing and data conferencing software often lets the user annotate the shared documents as on a physical whiteboard....	Keyboard text entry	Write notes via pen-ink	Handwriting Recognition	Printing	Formats	Remarks
A.nnotate A.nnotate A.nnotate is a web service for storing and annotating documents. Documents are either uploaded by the user or fetched from a web address supplied by the user. Uploads are accepted as PDF, Microsoft Word, office formats supported by OpenOffice and common image formats. When a URL of a web page is...	Free or paid	Web-based									PDF, .doc, .docx, images, web pages	Mostly oriented to including comments in PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
AllMyNotes Organizer AllMyNotes Organizer AllMyNotes Organizer is an outliner application for Windows, and it allows you to store all documents and notes in single storage file. Documents are organized in a hierarchical tree representation for quick browsing by topic...	Free or paid	Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7									Proprietary, encrypted. Supports import from plain text, RTF, 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 BasKet Note Pads BasKet Note Pads is a KDE program for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. It can manage various types of information such as to-do lists, links, pictures, and other types, similar to a scrapbook.-Version History:1.0.3.1 - 2008-06-30...	GPL	Linux									Rich text (export as HTML)	Features adding, managing notes by category, importing text files, images, sounds, autosave.
CintaNotes CintaNotes CintaNotes is a free Microsoft Windows information management application that allows basic personal note keeping. It provides a way to store and retrieve text collected from other documents or websites. It does not support the collection of images....	freeware	Windows									export to Unicode text or XML	Tagging and searching for tags
DéjàClick DéjàClick DéjàClick is an add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser that provides the ability to record and play select web transactions to monitor and/or analyze. This functionality is similar to website monitoring, with the exception that it monitors website transactions from inside the browser to...	Proprietary	Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows									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.
org-mode Org-mode Org-mode is an editing mode in the text editor Emacs which supports the editing of plain text hierarchical documents. It has specific support for a number of different use cases, such as writing to-do lists, project planning, and writing web pages...	GPL	Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows									LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, Taskjuggler, PDF, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar	org-mode is a major mode of Emacs Emacs Emacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively... , fully customisable, use only plain-text, includes ToDos, spreadsheet, deadlines, encryption, reminders, agenda, calendar and many more
Evernote EverNote Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments...	Freemium Freemium Freemium is a business model that works by offering a product or service free of charge while charging a premium for advanced features, functionality, or related products and services...	Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7, Palm Pre and web application Web application A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...									Notes stored as XML. Both Free and Paid version allows notes in any file type.
Gnote Gnote Gnote is a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Linux, cloned from Tomboy by Hubert Figuiere. It uses a Wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Gnote is part of the GNOME desktop environment, often filling the need for personal information management. The main...	GPL 3	Linux									NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF	Port of Tomboy Tomboy (software) Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Unix-like and Microsoft Windows operating systems, written in C# using Gtk#. Tomboy is part of the GNOME desktop environment, often for personal information management. Its interface is a notepad with a wiki-like linking... to C++, wiki-style linked notes
Google Notebook Google Notebook Google Notebook is a free online application offered by Google that allows users to save and organize clips of information while conducting research online. The browser-based tool permits a user to write notes, clip text and images, and save links from pages during a browser session. The...	web service	Web-based									Web-based; export to ODF, Microsoft Word, PDF etc. via Google Docs	no longer maintained
Jarnal Jarnal Jarnal is an open-source cross-platform notetaking and sketching application similar to Windows Journal. It is written in Java.Jarnal can be used with mouse or graphics tablet for freehand notetaking or it can be used for annotating imported PDF files and other importedpictures.It has a feature...	GPL	Any Java enabled platform: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows									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
Memonic Memonic Memonic is an online notetaking application that allows users to save and organize information while conducting research online and offline. A clip may be a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a document or document excerpt, a text note, or a screenshot. Memonic was launched early 2010.-Product...	Freemium Freemium Freemium is a business model that works by offering a product or service free of charge while charging a premium for advanced features, functionality, or related products and services...	Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile web application Web application A web application is an application that is accessed over a network such as the Internet or an intranet. The term may also mean a computer software application that is coded in a browser-supported language and reliant on a common web browser to render the application executable.Web applications are...									Notes stored as XML. Can attach any filetype.	Integrates into a number of different platforms.
Microsoft OneNote	Proprietary	iOS (iPad, iPhone), Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7, web, mobile web									Proprietary	Supports image search, audio and video-recording, screen clipping, importing from Web pages, and drawing; import from any Windows application by means of a simulated printer. Software can search audio files and pictures. Files can by cynchronized to skydrive for cloud access and can be synced among multiple devices such as home desktop, laptop, work computer, and mobile phone. It is important to note that this software allows you to ADD any file type to the notebook and allows users to open/edit the files within the tabs for changes and all file types. Good integration with other applications from vendor's Office suite. Tabbed interface provides good features for organizing and re-organizing pages. When used with Tablet PC ink, can search ink for text across all notes or a subset. For Andriod devices it is recommended to use MobileNoter SE for best performance on the device.
MyInfo MyInfo MyInfo is a personal information manager developed by Milenix Software. MyInfo collects, organizes, edit, stores, and retrieves personal-reference information like text documents, web snippets, e-mails, notes, and files from other applications....	Proprietary	Windows XP/Vista/7									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 MyNotex MyNotex is a free software dedicated to notetaking. It offers several features for redaction, classification and search according to certain criteria...	GPL	Linux									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.
Circus Ponies NoteBook Circus Ponies NoteBook Circus Ponies NoteBook is Macintosh software offered by Circus Ponies Software, Inc. that can be used for taking class notes, documenting research, journaling, scrapbooking, creating photo albums, making to-do lists, organizing projects, creating travel guides, and other things.In late 2008 Circus...	Proprietary	Mac OS X									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.
NoteScribe NoteScribe NoteScribe is a Microsoft Windows based hierarchal organization notetaking software designed for school, business, and at home. Developed for students and business people, NoteScribe, a digital organizational tool, is a way to categorize and archive information; notes , pictures, graphics, photos...	Proprietary	Windows									save as .NSE (NoteScribe), export to .rtf	supports image, video, text, PDF, spreadsheet attachments, generate citations and bibliographies
Okular Okular Okular is the document viewer for KDE SC 4 . It is based on KPDF and it replaced KPDF, KGhostView, KFax, KFaxview and KDVI in KDE 4.Its functionality can be easily embedded in other applications....	GPL	Linux, Unix									PDF, PS, TIFF, CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS, ODF, various others	Can export PDF + notes, for sending to other Okular users
PDF Studio PDF Studio PDF Studio is a commercial software program for end-users to create, review, annotate, and edit PDF documents. Platform-independent, it will run on any Java-enabled platform, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris and AIX....	Proprietary	Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, web-based									PDF	Review and markup PDF documents.
Personal Knowbase Personal Knowbase Personal Knowbase is a freeform notes database application for MS Windows. Personal Knowbase was first released in 1998 on the CompuServe Information Service and is an example of a personal knowledge base....	Proprietary	Windows									export to RTF, HTML, TXT, CSV	Supports tags, hypertext, attachments, passwords. Portable.
TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki TiddlyWiki is an open source single page application wiki. A single HTML file contains CSS, JavaScript, and the content. The content is divided into a series of sections, or Tiddlers. A user is encouraged to read a TiddlyWiki by following links rather than sequentially scrolling down the...	BSD	cross-platform (browser, web-based)									HTML	extensible via plugins and user scripts
Tomboy Tomboy (software) Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Unix-like and Microsoft Windows operating systems, written in C# using Gtk#. Tomboy is part of the GNOME desktop environment, often for personal information management. Its interface is a notepad with a wiki-like linking...	LGPL	cross-platform									NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF, wiki-formats	Reminders, to do-lists, formulae in LaTeX
Windows Journal Windows Journal Windows Journal is a notetaking application, created by Microsoft and included in Windows XP Tablet PC Edition as well as Home Premium or superior editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. It allows the user to create and organize handwritten notes and drawings and to save them in a JNT-File...	Proprietary	Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Windows Vista, Windows 7									Proprietary
Xournal Xournal Xournal is a notetaking application written for Linux and other GTK+ platforms. It bears some similarity to Windows Journal, Jarnal and Gournal. It is designed to be used with either a stylus or a mouse...	GPL	Linux, Windows, Mac OS X									XML, export to PDF	Fast boot, smooth curves
Name	License	Platforms	Tabbed sections	Synchronizing	PDF annotate, save	Whiteboarding	Keyboard text entry	Write notes via pen-ink	Handwriting Recognition	Printing	Formats	Remarks

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Software name	Drawing atop text	Text box, flow diagram	Outline bulleting with indent	Text and paragraph formatting	Insert hyperlink Hyperlink In computing, a hyperlink is a reference to data that the reader can directly follow, or that is followed automatically. A hyperlink points to a whole document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks...	Insert image Image An image is an artifact, for example a two-dimensional picture, that has a similar appearance to some subject—usually a physical object or a person.-Characteristics:...	Insert table Table Table or Tables may refer to:* Table * Table * Deliberative procedures: Table , deferral or commencement of consideration Table , contrasting usages* Tables , a class of board games...	Insert audio Audio file format An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. This data can be stored uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size. It can be a raw bitstream, but it is usually a container format or an audio data format with defined storage layer.-Types of...	Insert video Video Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...	Insert SWF SWF SWF is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript. Originating with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and then coming under the control of Adobe, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function.,...	Other objects	Attachment	Spell check	Search
AllMyNotes Organizer AllMyNotes Organizer AllMyNotes Organizer is an outliner application for Windows, and it allows you to store all documents and notes in single storage file. Documents are organized in a hierarchical tree representation for quick browsing by topic...											Alarms, check-boxes, bullets, phones, advanced links
BasKet Note Pads BasKet Note Pads BasKet Note Pads is a KDE program for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. It can manage various types of information such as to-do lists, links, pictures, and other types, similar to a scrapbook.-Version History:1.0.3.1 - 2008-06-30...											tags (check boxes, etc.)
org-mode Org-mode Org-mode is an editing mode in the text editor Emacs which supports the editing of plain text hierarchical documents. It has specific support for a number of different use cases, such as writing to-do lists, project planning, and writing web pages...											advanced linking, bullets, tags, checkboxes, full spreadsheet, embedding of programming code, formulars, markup
Evernote EverNote Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formatted text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments...											Check-box, line, tags
Microsoft OneNote											OLE Object Linking and Embedding Object Linking and Embedding is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. For developers, it brought OLE Control eXtension , a way to develop and use custom user interface elements... , bullets, line, flags
MyInfo MyInfo MyInfo is a personal information manager developed by Milenix Software. MyInfo collects, organizes, edit, stores, and retrieves personal-reference information like text documents, web snippets, e-mails, notes, and files from other applications....											OLE Object Linking and Embedding Object Linking and Embedding is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects. For developers, it brought OLE Control eXtension , a way to develop and use custom user interface elements... , bullets, numbering, page breaks, advanced links

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