Zim Alternatives

Zim is described as '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"' and is a leading Note-taking tool in the office & productivity category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Zim for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Android apps. The best Zim alternative is Obsidian, which is free. Other great apps like Zim are Joplin, Notion, Anytype and CherryTree.

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Zim alternatives are mainly Note-taking Tools, but if you're looking for Todo List Managers or Task Management Tools you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Open Source, Mac and Android. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Zim.
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  1. OrgPad icon
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    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

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    • Online
     
  2. Notedrafts icon
     5 likes

    Notedrafts is a powerful note-taking app that lets you write, draw, and organize your thoughts across different types of documents. Whether you're marking up a PDF, writing on a large canvas, or taking notes in a long vertical layout, Notedrafts adapts to your workflow.

    65 Notedrafts alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. MyNotex icon
     3 likes

    MyNotex is a free software for Gnu/Linux useful to take and to manage textual notes, also a large number of them. Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length text.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Mars Notebook icon
     17 likes

    This is the very useful tree-styled personal information manager. English, Russian, Spanish, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, German, Polish, French. You can use it every day as your assistant in your work and life. It always can be close to you - in system tray and ready to help. If you fo.

    102 Mars Notebook alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Iotas icon
     6 likes

    Iotas is a simple but elegant solution for notes especially but not only for GNOME users. Through Nextcloud integration, all notes can be kept in sync and accessed on different devices.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. A beautiful markdown note-taking app for GNOME (forked from Paper).

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    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. Write beautifully. Organize easily. Find everything. Fuss free writing. Saves notes as RTF files on user specified folder. Can search across all notes. No sign up/log in required. Portable application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Tiddloid icon
     3 likes

    Tiddloid Lite, a lightweight version of Tiddloid, is an app to work with locally stored TiddlyWikis. Once have some ideas, you can immediately write them down and save it in a tiddler, and sync the Wiki to your other devices so that you can access these ideas anywhere.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. Telekasten icon
     2 likes

    A Neovim (lua) plugin for working with a markdown zettelkasten / wiki and mixing it with a journal, based on telescope.nvim.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. MemPad icon
     29 likes

    MemPad is a plain text outliner and note taking program with a tree structured index. All pages are stored in a single file. User interface available in 20 languages.

    21 MemPad alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. OutWiker icon
     35 likes

    OutWiker is designed to store notes in a tree. Such programs are called "outliner", personal wiki, or tree-like editors. OutWiker's main difference from the other similar programs is keeping the tree of notes in the form of directories on disk, and encouraging...

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    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  12.  11 likes

    TiddlyDesktop is a special purpose web browser for working with locally stored TiddlyWiki.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • node-webkit
    • TiddlyWiki
     
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