Terminal Velocity AlternativesNote-taking Tools and other similar apps like Terminal Velocity

Terminal Velocity is described as 'Fast, cross-platform (pip installable) note-taking application for the UNIX terminal, it’s a clone of the OS X app Notational Velocity that runs in a terminal and uses your $EDITOR' and is a Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are eight alternatives to Terminal Velocity for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD and Self-Hosted apps. The best Terminal Velocity alternative is Zim, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Terminal Velocity are Trilium Notes, Tomboy, Notational Velocity and Quiver.

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  1. Zim icon
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    Zim brings the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Store information, link pages and edit with WYSISYG markup or directly typing some lightweight markup syntax and see it previewed as-you-type. Creating a new page is easy by either clicking on the "Create new note"...

    361 Zim alternatives

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  2. Trilium Notes icon
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    The original trilium is transfered to this repo by its owner and the app continues to develop here as stated here: https://github.com/TriliumNext/Trilium

    432 Trilium Notes alternatives

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    • Google Chrome
    • Cloudron
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  3. Tomboy icon
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    Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.

    236 Tomboy alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  4. Quiver icon
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    Quiver is a notebook built for programmers. It lets you easily mix text, code and Markdown within one note, edit code with an awesome code editor, live preview Markdown and LaTeX cells, and find any note instantly via the full-text search.

    243 Quiver alternatives

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  5. Hyperdraft icon
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    Turn your notes into a website.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • RemoteStorage
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  6. nvPY icon
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    nvPY is a note-taking tool inspired by Notational Velocity, nvALT and ResophNotes. It syncs with simplenote, and runs on Linux, Windows and OSX.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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  7. vim-pad icon
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    a quick notetaking plugin. Contribute to fmoralesc/vim-pad development by creating an account on GitHub.

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    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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