Marknote lets you create rich text notes and easily organise them into notebooks. You can personalise your notebooks by choosing an icon and accent color for each one, making it easy to distinguish between them and keep your notes at your fingertips.
Notes are saved as Markdown files in your Documents folder, making it easy to use your notes outside of Marknote as well as inside the app.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Notebooks.
- Supports a wide range of formatting options usefully for taking every day notes, like bold, italic, underlined and strike through fonts as well as headings, lists, check boxes, images and more.
- Import from Maildir and KNotes.
- Sort notes list by name or date.
- Colour themes.
Website: apps.kde.org/marknote
Support: Code Repository
Developer: Mathis Brüchert and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

Marknote is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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