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Mind Mapping

15 Best Free and Open Source Mind Mapping Software

September 21, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Roundup

Mind mapping software offers an excellent way of capturing your thoughts in a structured way, brainstorming new ideas.

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Diary

TUI-Journal – terminal-based diary and note-taking application

May 16, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

TUI-Journal manages dated notes from the terminal with three storage backends, a built-in editor, tags, fuzzy search and import/export.

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Text Editor

Toney – terminal based note taking app

February 8, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Toney is a fast, lightweight, terminal-based note-taking app for the modern developer. Built with Bubbletea, it brings a sleek TUI interface.

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Notes

FuzPad – minimalistic note management solution

February 7, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

FuzPad is a minimalistic note management solution. It’s powered by fzf.

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Notes

Notesnook – private workspace

October 24, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open-source note-taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use.

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Notes

Noteworthy – Markdown notes app

August 5, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, GUI

Noteworthy is billed as a modern, fast, and version-controlled Markdown notes app.

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Bookmark manager tool

nb is a command line and local note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base

May 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, Productivity, Utilities

nb creates notes in text-based formats like Markdown, Org, LaTeX, and AsciiDoc, can work with files in any format

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Notes

Tangent – clean and powerful notes app

February 21, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Tangent is designed to let you write the way you think. Your thoughts are connected; Tangent lets you link to existing notes and make new ones with ease.

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Notes

Logseq – privacy-first platform for knowledge management and collaboration

December 26, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge management and note-taking software designed to enhance productivity

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Text Editor

idea – keep ideas safe

October 4, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

idea is a lightweight CLI tool and module for keeping ideas in a safe place quick and easy.

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Text Editing

tdo – opinionated command-line note-taking system

October 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

tdo is a opinionated, command line based note-taking system.

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Butterfly – cross-platform note-taking app

October 2, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Butterfly is a note taking app where your ideas come first. It provides a simple UI with powerful customization.

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jot – note management for the terminal

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Jot is a feature-stripped version of Obsidian focused on rapid note management through the terminal.

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Machine Learning in Linux: Reor – AI note-taking app

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity, Reviews, Scientific, Software

Reor is a private AI personal knowledge management tool. Each note is saved as a Markdown file to a “vault” directory on your machine.

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Notes

Folio – Markdown note-taking app for GNOME

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

Folio is billed as a beautiful markdown note-taking app for GNOME. It’s a fork of Paper.

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Notes

SilverBullet – note-taking application

September 28, 2024 Steve Emms Productivity

SilverBullet is a note-taking application optimized for people with a hacker mindset.

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Notes

CherryTree – hierarchical note taking software

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms Documents, GUI, Productivity

CherryTree is a hierarchical note-taking application for Linux with rich text, embedded files, code boxes, searchable notes and encryption.

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Notes

Joplin – note taking and to-do application with synchronisation capabilities

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Joplin is an offline-first note-taking app for Linux with Markdown, notebooks, encrypted synchronisation and research organisation.

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Diary

Lifeograph – private journal and note-taking application

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Productivity

Lifeograph offers encrypted diaries, rich-text editing, advanced filters, parametric tags, charts, task tracking and Python scripting.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Rnote – sketch and take handwritten notes

December 23, 2022 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

Rnote is a vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. Here’s our review.

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