Tomboy Alternatives

Tomboy is described as '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' and is a very popular Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Tomboy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based apps. The best Tomboy alternative is Notesnook, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Tomboy are Zim, TiddlyWiki, Trilium Notes and CherryTree.

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  1. Tusk icon
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    Tusk is an unofficial, featureful, open source, community-driven, free Evernote app.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. MeisterNote icon
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    MeisterNote, part of the Meister Suite, is an online documentation software that offers teams functionality for content creation and organization.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  3. Speare icon
     5 likes

    Capture, organize, and work with ideas easily. Speare's intuitive and flexible side-by-side writing interface makes content creation a breeze.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. AlephNote icon
     9 likes

    AlephNote is a lightweight note taking desktop app usable with multiple backends:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. The safest site on the web for storing your text! Enter any URL, e.g. protectedText.com/anything You find it - its yours! Encrypt all your notes, access anywhere. Simple. Fast. Free. No ads. Secure - don't trust us, check the code yourself.

    10 Protectedtext (Safe Notes) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
     
  6. Flashnote icon
     16 likes

    Flashnote is a quick notes manager created for such cases. When you need a rough copy to save or to process some pieces of a text, Flashnote is small, quick and convenient. Press the shortcut-key combination and a rough copy is on the screen in a flash of a second.

    191 Flashnote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Memo icon
     1 like

    Memo is a beautiful history-based notes app built with iOS design guidelines in mind. Additions and deletions are automatically stored in the history timeline, which can be scrubbed to travel forwards and backwards in time through the note.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  8. Steno Notes icon
     5 likes

    Steno is a lightweight note taking and writing app centered around minimalism to avoid all the unnecessary and distracting stuff.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
     
  9. ATWiki icon
     8 likes

    TiddlyWiki for Windows. A unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information. ATWiki is an independent project of TiddlyWiki.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. OrgPad icon
     3 likes

    Do you like to spend time figuring out how to use that overcomplicated tool? No? We don't like it too. We focus on minimalistic design. We do the heavy lifting for you. One example: we spend three days choosing colors that look great so you don't have to.

    43 OrgPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. AceText icon
     13 likes

    AceText is a smart software tool that simplifies working with text by enabling you to store, manage, edit and reuse text from a central location.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Vimwiki icon
     9 likes

    Vimwiki is a personal wiki for Vim -- a number of linked text files that have their own syntax highlighting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
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