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Notion

Notion is a versatile all-in-one workspace that blends notes, docs, wikis, and project management databases. Its project...

Productivity Easy To Use Modern Project Management

9.5 Brilliant

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Heptabase

Heptabase is a visual knowledge management tool that combines notecards with an infinite whiteboard. Users create cards...

Multimodal Research Whiteboard Visual Thinking

9.3 Excellent

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RemNote

RemNote is a powerful all-in-one knowledge management tool that integrates note-taking with a robust spaced-repetition s...

Productivity Note Taking Researcher Student

9.2 Excellent

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Mem

Mem is an AI-first note-taking app designed to eliminate the need for manual organization. It uses artificial intelligen...

Lightweight NLP Meeting Notes Chat Interface

9.2 Excellent

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Glean

Glean is an AI-powered knowledge management platform that integrates with various business applications, including sprea...

Productivity AI Data Analysis AI Powered

9.2 Excellent

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base and note-taking application built on Markdown. Its unique linking and backlinking...

Productivity Privacy User Friendly Self Hosted

9.0 Excellent

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Notability

Notability is the leading note-taking app for iPad users who rely on handwriting and audio recording. It is famous for i...

Productivity Easy To Use Subscription Apple Pencil

9.0 Excellent

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Joplin

Joplin is a free, open-source note-taking application with a strong focus on Markdown support and cross-platform synchro...

Affordable User Friendly Open Source Cross Platform

8.8 Great

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Supernotes

Supernotes organizes knowledge into 'cards' instead of pages, which can be nested, tagged, and linked. It has a social l...

Lightweight Card Collaboration Note Taking

8.6 Great

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GoodNotes

GoodNotes is a powerhouse for digital handwriting and PDF annotation, widely considered the best app for digital plannin...

Productivity Note Taking Ipad Student

8.5 Great

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Mendeley

Mendeley is a comprehensive reference manager and academic social network owned by Elsevier. It excels at managing large...

Collaboration Cross Platform Note Taking Bibliography

8.5 Great

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Roam Research

Roam Research pioneered the concept of networked thought with its bidirectional linking and daily notes page. Its block-...

Productivity Content Creation Research Academic

8.2 Great

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Wiki.js

Wiki.js is a modern, Node.js-based wiki platform with a clean and intuitive interface. It leverages Markdown for content...

Analytics Self Hosted Markdown Enterprise Wiki

8.2 Great

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Logseq

Logseq is an open-source, privacy-focused knowledge management tool built on a block-based outliner. It emphasizes conne...

Productivity Privacy Task Management Open Source

7.5 Good

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Outline

Outline is a modern, open-source knowledge base built for teams. It emphasizes real-time collaboration, allowing multipl...

Project Management Collaboration Open Source Search

7.5 Good

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SiYuan

SiYuan is a powerful, open-source personal knowledge management system with a block-based editor and an outliner. Data i...

Android Privacy Open Source Sqlite

7.1 Good

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Google Keep

Google Keep is a lightweight note-taking app that uses a post-it note aesthetic to keep information organized. It is inc...

Free Lightweight Easy To Use Affordable

7.0 Good

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Foam

Foam is a personal knowledge management system built as an extension for Visual Studio Code. It is designed for develope...

Backlink Open Source Markdown Vscode

6.6 Fair

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Notable

Notable is a note-taking and knowledge management tool that allows teams to collaborate on notes, share files, and organ...

Organization User Friendly Real Time Collaboration Search

6.0 Fair

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Notist

Notist is a SaaS platform designed to improve knowledge management and team workflows. Its real-time editing capabilitie...

Organization Project Management Team Collaboration Integration

5.4 Mediocre