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, Anytype, Notion 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 and Android. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Zim.
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  1. Forensic Notes - Digital documents are easy to fabricate, lose or get hacked. Take you digital documentation into the 21st century with Forensic Notes. Secure. Private. Credible.

    Court-verifiable documentation - Replicates paper notebooks.

    81 Forensic Notes alternatives

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    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Self-Hosted
    • Microsoft Azure
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  2. QuickNote icon
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    Virtual scrapbook for Desktop with a plain text editor. With Quicknote, in its resizable window you can jot down your notes and organize them in categories. Beneath the normal text functions, it can let you directly access frequently run programs, manage windows tasks, and even...

    146 QuickNote alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. ruff is your pocket-sized best friend that aims to make writing on the go fun and sharing it fast & easy. It's a single sheet of text with your progress automatically saved and restored between sessions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Android
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  4. AM-Notebook icon
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    AM-Notebook is an english/german multi-featured personal information manager that provides an easy and reliable way to save notes, formula supported spreadsheets, diagrams/flowcharts, to do lists, tasks and contacts within a light weight tray icon tool.

    136 AM-Notebook alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  5.  2 likes

    LionWiki is a minimalist Wiki engine programmed in PHP. It is extensible, templatable, file based (it doesn't need database like MySQL) and requires just one file to function. It is suitable for small websites, personal notebooks or journals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Online
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  6. Boardist icon
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    Perfect personal productivity tool 🙀 Never lose your data again and store your notes, links, files, and a lot more. The whole infrastructure is designed to help an advanced user to be in a good shape with data.

    242 Boardist alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  7. Encryptic icon
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    Encryptic is an open-source note-taking application heavily focused on encryption. When you start writing, no one will know what you write except for you. We don’t know and we don’t want to know. That’s between you and your work.

    59 Encryptic alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • RemoteStorage
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  8. Windi icon
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    Windi is a knowledge management app that helps you take short notes, make sense of them, and share with your communities.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Dark Note icon
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    Dark Note offers a wide range of features for taking notes, creating checklists, and keeping track of your budget. Its simple and elegant user interface makes it easy to use and navigate, allowing you to quickly and easily create and manage your notes + checklists.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
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  10. Docspell icon
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    Docspell is a personal document organizer. You'll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess 😉.

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    • Self-Hosted
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