Other note taking apps

Today, there is an informative thread on HackerNews about a new note taking app, kobble.io. Kobble itself uses markdown and JSON structures, stored in Github Gists, to store content.

Kobble has a nice design, but has a data model that sticks to terminology from streaming services like channel, playlists, and track, which is a bit strange for a note taking app.

Kobble claims to be the only note taking app where you own your data. This, of course, is an alternative fact. At least for Knowfox I am pretty sure that I own my data. And it is quite easy to install, too.

Nicely enough, the comment thread about Kobble collects a fair number of alternative note taking apps:

• https://blankslate.io/
• https://standardnotes.org/
• http://public.docs.xstatic.site
• Another list of alternative apps
  • https://leanote.com/
  • http://strlen.com/treesheets/
  • http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
  • http://zim-wiki.org/
  • Any text editor + Syncthing https://syncthing.net/ + TagSpaces https://www.tagspaces.org/
  • http://www.qownnotes.org/
  • https://nimbus.everhelper.me/note.php
  • https://laverna.cc/
  • https://turtlapp.com/
  • https://simplenote.com/
  • http://www.wiz.cn/
  • https://keep.google.com
  • https://www.onenote.com/
  • http://happenapps.com/#quiver
  • http://getnotation.com/
  • http://www.fetchnotes.com/#/
  • http://www.resoph.com/ResophNotes/Welcome.html
  • http://www.connectedtext.com/
  • http://rednotebook.sourceforge.net/
  • http://www.notebooksapp.com/
  • http://keepnote.org/
  • http://cintanotes.com/
  • https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork
  • http://www.horstmuc.de/wmem.htm

When I decided to write Knowfox, I had a similar list. Ultimately, non of those stuck. I am quite happy with Knowfox now that I finally came around to writing it :)