Notes-Up lets you write beautiful notes fast and easy using Markdown.
Notes-Up is made for elementary OS, but has been built and made available elsewhere by community members.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Multiple notebook support.
- Easy-to-use markdown editor.
- Tags, to quickly find and organize your notes.
- Exporting to PDF and Markdown.
- Built-In markdown cheat-sheet.
- Special plugins such as syntax highlight, links to other pages, inserting images, and setting font color!
- Spell check.
- Beautiful app themes.
Website: github.com/Philip-Scott/Notes-up
Support:
Developer: Felipe Escoto
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

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