1. Keepnote Alternatives
2. Keepnote App Alternatives
3. Keepnote Alternatives

Free alternative: KeepNote; I tried to steer away from Evernote as although strictly speaking it's a note-taking application (and a very good one at that), it doesn't (in my opinion) replicate the functionality of a standalone note taking application on your computer. KeepNote, however, does. It's a nice, simple note taking client that supports.

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NoteCase has always been an indispensable application in my productivity toolbox. So the news that NoteCase's developer ceased its development sent me scrambling for a replacement for this excellent note-taking tool. It didn't take me long, though, to discover KeepNote. Similar to NoteCase, KeepNote is a hierarchical note manager, which means notes in the application are organized in notebooks and subnotebooks that act as nodes in an hierarchical tree. You can assign different icons to each notebook and note (or page, in KeeNote's terminology), which makes it easier to identify and find specific pages and folders.

As you would expect from a note-taking application, KeepNote supports different text formatting options, including bold, italics, underlined, and monospaced. Using the available tools, you can also tweak font properties, apply different text and background colors, and choose between several text alignment options. Like any note-taking application worth its salt, KeepNote lets you insert links and images. In addition to that, KeepNote features its own screenshot tool. Choose Edit -> Insert Screenshot (or press Ctrl+Insert), and you can take a screenshot of any currently opened window. KeepNote then automatically inserts the screenshot into the currently opened note. Other nice touches include an integrated spell-check with automatic in-line spell check and a search feature that allows you to search the current page or all existing notes. All pages in KeepNote are stored in the HTML format, and you can view them in the browser or edit them in an external editor. The only missing feature here is the lack of import and export functionality and the ability to encrypt notebooks. There is, however, the Backup Notebook feature that can save the currently selected notebook as a tar.gz archive.

KeepNote is a note-taking and organization. KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. Simplenote is one of the best alternatives to Evernote – even on other platforms, not just Linux. There’s a dark mode too (as you can see in the image above). It is a completely free and open-source note-taking app developed by Automattic (the team behind WordPress.com).

All in all, while KeepNote is still missing a few features some users might consider important, it already provides a viable alternative to the now-defunct NoteCase.

Comments

• Keepnote not stable

  Update your Linux distribution or try to run Keepnote on a different PC at home or work: You can never be sure to have keepnote still available. It seg-faults or behaves strange. It depends too much in odd libraries and packets. Python based applications are low-availability apps in this sense.
  This is a perfect no-go for the storage of important information I want to access in one year on the system I run in one year. I'm forced to stay with ugly notecase.
  

• use Zim

  I use Zim in my daily work, and is great: (http://zim-wiki.org/). It does the work of gnotes, and adds much other goodies

• NoteCase Pro Available

  Why not consider NoteCase Pro?
  Yes, I know it costs money...but it's available, cross-platform, and supported with recent new release..has more features than NoteCase...
  Also, NoteCase is still available, just not supported by developer....
  Anyway, just curious....
  

• the only missing feature here is ..

  Without the chance, to save a file with a password, there is no alternative solution for NoteCase! What a bummer!

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What is KeepNote

KeepNote is a note taking application that works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS X. With KeepNote, you can store your class notes, TODO lists, research notes, journal entries, paper outlines, etc in a simple notebookhierarchy with rich-text formatting, images, and more. Using full-text search,you can retrieve any note for later reference.

KeepNote is designed to be cross-platform (implemented inPython and PyGTK) and stores your notes insimple and easy to manipulate file formats (HTML and XML). Archiving andtransferring your notes is as easy as zipping or copying a folder.

Read moreabout KeepNote'sdesign philosophy or follow my development ideas on twitter (@mattrasmus).

Features

• Rich-text formatting (e.g. Bullet point lists, Inline images)
• Hierarchical organization for notes
• Web links and note-to-note links
• Full-text search
• Integrated screenshot
• File attachments
• Spell checking (via gtkspell)
• Auto-saving
• Built-in backup and restore (archive to zip files)
• Extensions (i.e. 'plugins')
• Cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS X)

Updates

2012.03.26 - Released KeepNote 0.7.8

I just released KeepNote 0.7.8. It should havefaster startup and save performance compared to version 0.7.7.KeepNote has also been officially submitted to Debian and is now available as a package.Thanks Khalid!

2012.01.01 - Released KeepNote 0.7.7

Happy new year! KeepNote 0.7.7 is nowreleased. Please backup your notebooks whenever you upgrade KeepNote.

2011.11.20 - Released KeepNote 0.7.6

KeepNote 0.7.6 is now released. Please backup yournotebooks whenever you upgrade KeepNote. This is especially important ifyou are a current user of KeepNote 0.7.4, as there is a known issuewith using KeeppNote 0.7.4 on newer notebook formats.

Download

See change log for update details.Installation instructions are available in the INSTALL file.The platform independent downloads are known to work forLinux, Windows (XP, Vista), and Mac OS X platforms.The software is licensed under GPL.All versions are also available.

Keepnote Alternatives

KeepNote is open source. If you like it, you can contribute $10 towardsfurther development.

Download extensions

There are a growing number of extensions available for KeepNote.

Help me test the next release

I am currently testing out the next version of KeepNote.Try out the latest features and help me fix any remainingbugs by submitting abug report. As always, please backup your notebooks before using a testing version of KeepNote. All previous testing versions are also available.

Last updated: 2012-07-04 07:40

Keepnote App Alternatives

Keepnote Alternatives

Requirements

KeepNote is developed to be cross-platform. It is known to work on the following platforms (but possibly others as well):

• Linux
• Windows (Win2000, XP, Vista)
• Mac OS/X

All dependencies are included for the Windows version of KeepNote.

To use KeepNote on Linux or MacOS X, the following third-partylibraries are needed (they are all cross-platform):

• Python2.5 (or any greater 2.X)
• sqlite (version >= 3.5.0)
• gtkspell (optional)

On Debian, required packages can be install with this command:

Spell checking is enabled with an optional package:

where XX is your language if it is not english. Otherplatforms will probably name their packages similarly.

Notes

KeepNote is provided as-is. I only make it available in the hope that someoneelse will find it useful. If you find any bugs or experience any other problems I would be interested to know. My email is rasmus@alum.mit.edu.