Comparison of notetaking software

Comparison of notetaking software

The table below compares features of notable notetaking software.

Contents

General features

Name License Platforms Tabbed sections Synchronizing PDF annotate, save Whiteboarding Keyboard text entry Write notes via pen-ink Handwriting Recognition Printing Formats Remarks
A.nnotate Free or paid Web-based ? ? Yes No Yes ? ? Yes PDF, .doc, .docx, images, web pages Mostly oriented to including comments in PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
AllMyNotes Organizer Free or paid Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 ? ? No No Yes No No Yes 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 GPL Linux No No No No Yes No No No Rich text (export as HTML) Features adding, managing notes by category, importing text files, images, sounds, autosave.
CintaNotes freeware Windows ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? export to Unicode text or XML Tagging and searching for tags
DéjàClick Proprietary Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows ? ? No No Yes ? ? Yes 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 GPL Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows Yes No No No Yes No No Yes LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, Taskjuggler, PDF, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar org-mode is a major mode of Emacs, fully customisable, use only plain-text, includes ToDos, spreadsheet, deadlines, encryption, reminders, agenda, calendar and many more
Evernote Freemium Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7, Palm Pre and web application No Yes Yes No Yes Partial[Note 1] Yes Yes Notes stored as XML. Both Free and Paid version allows notes in any file type.
Gnote GPL 3 Linux No Yes Yes No Yes ? ? Yes NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF Port of Tomboy to C++, wiki-style linked notes
Google Notebook web service Web-based No ? No No Yes ? ? Yes Web-based; export to ODF, Microsoft Word, PDF etc. via Google Docs no longer maintained
Jarnal GPL Any Java enabled platform: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows No Yes[Note 2] Yes Yes Yes Partial[Note 3] ? Yes 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 Freemium Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile web application No Yes Yes No Yes No ? Yes 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 Yes Yes Yes[Note 4] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 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 Proprietary Windows XP/Vista/7 Yes No Yes No Yes No No Yes 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 GPL Linux ? Yes No No Yes No No No 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 Proprietary Mac OS X ? ? Yes No Yes Yes ? Yes 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 Proprietary Windows ? ? No No Yes ? ? Yes save as .NSE (NoteScribe), export to .rtf supports image, video, text, PDF, spreadsheet attachments, generate citations and bibliographies
Okular GPL Linux, Unix ? No Yes[Note 5] No Yes No No Yes PDF, PS, TIFF, CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS, ODF, various others Can export PDF + notes, for sending to other Okular users
PDF Studio Proprietary Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, web-based ? ? Yes No Yes ? ? Yes PDF Review and markup PDF documents.
Personal Knowbase Proprietary Windows ? ? No No Yes ? ? Yes export to RTF, HTML, TXT, CSV Supports tags, hypertext, attachments, passwords. Portable.
TiddlyWiki BSD cross-platform (browser, web-based) Via plugin Yes Via plugin No Yes ? ? Yes HTML extensible via plugins and user scripts
Tomboy LGPL cross-platform ? Yes No No Yes ? ? Yes NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF, wiki-formats Reminders, to do-lists, formulae in LaTeX
Windows Journal Proprietary Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Windows Vista, Windows 7 No ? No ? Yes Yes Yes[Note 6] Yes Proprietary
Xournal GPL Linux, Windows, Mac OS X No ? Yes No Yes Yes No Yes 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

Formatted text features, others

Software name Drawing atop text Text box, flow diagram Outline bulleting with indent Text and paragraph formatting Insert hyperlink Insert image Insert table Insert audio Insert video Insert SWF Other objects Attachment Spell check Search
AllMyNotes Organizer Yes Yes Yes No No No No Alarms, check-boxes, bullets, phones, advanced links Yes Yes Yes
BasKet Note Pads Yes Yes Yes No No No No tags (check boxes, etc.) Yes Yes No
org-mode Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No advanced linking, bullets, tags, checkboxes, full spreadsheet, embedding of programming code, formulars, markup Yes Yes Yes
Evernote No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Check-box, line, tags Yes Yes Yes
Microsoft OneNote Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes OLE, bullets, line, flags Yes Yes Yes
MyInfo ? ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No OLE, bullets, numbering, page breaks, advanced links Yes Yes Yes

See also

Notes

  1. ^ No support for ink notes in Mac version. Cannot mix ink with text
  2. ^ One instance can be begun in server mode or a web server (webdav?) used. See manual page
  3. ^ No pressure sensitivity
  4. ^ OneNote 2010 and OneNote 2007 Service Pack 2 and beyond have it built in. A Save As PDF add-in is available for earlier versions of OneNote 2007.[1]
  5. ^ Saved in separate file
  6. ^ Handwritten notes are searchable

References

  1. ^ Can save to PDF with this add-in: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=4D951911-3E7E-4AE6-B059-A2E79ED87041&displaylang=en

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