Paperless Alternatives

Boostnote

WRITE OFFLINE You can write/edit your notes on your laptop even if you are offline. MULTIPLE DEVICES Boostnote is available for browser, desktop and mobile. SYNTAX HIGHLIGHT Boostnote can highlight code syntax in more than 100 languages.

Features:

• MarkDown support
• Syntax Highlighting
• Local Storage
• Search by tags
• Live Preview
• Works Offline
• Auto-saving
• Developer Tools
• Embedded media
• Hyperlinks
• Support for LaTeX
• No Internet required
• Notetaking
• Table creation
• Text formatting
• Typing in TeX itself

DEVONthink

DEVONthink is designed to manage and keep in order all those disparate pieces of information so important to your work or studies. As you become more experienced with DEVONthink and its easy, intuitive interface you will quickly find more exciting ways of using your data.

Features:

• File management
• File Tagging
• PDF OCR
• Built-in RSS reader
• DMS
• File-organization
• File Searching
• Indexed search
• Integrated Search
• Notetaking
• Scriptable

NixNote

NixNote, formerly Nevernote, is an open source client for Evernote . It is written in Java so it will also run on Windows & OS-X, but the primary focus has been to try and get a usable environment for Linux. Features Synchronizes with Evernote servers Local data caching Cross platform Local-only and synchronized notebooks supported Database may be encrypted locally

Features:

• Java
• Evernote Client
• Notetaking

Leanote

Leanote provides services for note and blog. You can use "note" as your personal notebook, if you want to share with friends, just publish note or notebook to the blog. The code of Leanote can be found on Github but you have to pay to get the app from the official website, hence this freemium license.

Features:

• Sequence Diagrams
• MarkDown support
• Export to HTML
• Full text search
• Latex Math
• Nested Notebooks
• Notetaking
• Portable
• Export to PDF

Inkdrop

Inkdrop enables hackers to keep track of their daily progress when it comes to hacking in one convenient spot without having to rely on traditional word processors. Inkdrop features support for #Markdown with the ability to do code syntax highlighting as well as built-in syncing capabilities. Users can organize their progress in a clean, uniform way that's focused on ensuring that the information is easy to work through and can be read uniformly.

Features:

• MarkDown support
• Cloud sync
• End-to-End Encryption
• Mobile apps
• Security & Privacy
• Colored tags
• Encrypted Notes
• Encryption
• Flow diagram visualisation
• Folder Hierarchy
• Latex Math
• Notetaking
• REST API
• Sequence Diagrams
• Share notes
• Support for Themes
• Todos

Trilium Notes

Features Notes can be arranged into arbitrarily deep hierarchy (tree) Notes can have more than 1 parents - see cloning Rich WYSIWYG note editing including e.g.

Features:

• Knowledge base
• REST API
• Tag based
• Electron based
• Note organization
• Notetaking

Paperwork

Paperwork is a personal document manager for scanned documents (and PDFs). It's designed to be easy and fast to use. The idea behind Paperwork is "scan & forget": You should be able to just scan a new document and forget about it until the day you need it again. In other words, let the machine do most of the work for you.

Features:

• Scan documents
• Document structure management
• Indexed search
• OCR
• Portable
• Scan to PDF
• Scanner

Note Board

Productivity app. Save information like a sticky notes. You can create notes with images, videos or whatever you want. Save pages to read later or capture any web content with the chrome or firefox extension. Share boards with your friends. Create public boards.

notesmartly

Currently not up to date. Has not been updated to run on IOS 11 or above. Notesmartly is a free app which makes organizing your stuff a breeze .Notebooks, ability to draw using Scribbpads, Wideboards to collaborate in real time and more. It lets you take notes be it text note, image note, audio note or video notes and chat within a document all in one place. Create tasks within a document, your to-do lists, scanned documents and task planner all in one place.

Features:

• Note organization
• Notetaking
• Todos

Scroll, Quill & INK

Fast and portable note editor. Supports: Mardown format, HTML previews, tagging, favorites, searching, Dropbox and Google Drive synchronization, embedded photos.

Features:

• Sync with Dropbox
• Favorites
• Sync with Google Drive
• Notetaking
• Portable
• Tagging