Note-taking software

free-form note-taking app for personal computers and smartphones

note-taking service developed by Google

Prezi is a presentation software company founded in 2009 in Budapest. As of 2025, they have more than 160 million users worldwide who have created approximately 400 million presentations. In 2019, they launched Prezi Video, a tool that allows for virtual presentations within the video screen of a live or recorded video.

Evernote is a note-taking and task-management application developed by the Evernote Corporation. Evernote was founded in 2007 by Russian entrepreneur Stepan Pachikov. The company released the first public version of the Evernote web application on June 24, 2008. The service gained popularity for its ability to synchronize notes across multiple devices and platforms, allowing users to capture and organize information such as text, images, and web content.

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knowledge base and note-taking software

thumb|An example of an w:Generative artificial intelligence|AI-generated conversation by NotebookLM (January 2025) NotebookLM (Google NotebookLM; LM short for "Language Model") is a research and note-taking online tool developed by Google Labs that uses artificial intelligence (AI), specifically Google Gemini, to assist users in interacting with their documents.

productivity software

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Windows notetaking application

Freeplane is a free, open source software application for creating mind maps (diagrams of connections between ideas), and electronic outlines. Written in Java, it is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and is licensed under the GNU GPL version "2 or later".

conflation of two software applications developed by Apple Inc

GTK-based desktop wiki software written in Python

collaboration software

Diigo is a social bookmarking website that allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag Web pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. These annotations can be kept private, shared with a group within Diigo, or be forwarded to someone else via a special link. The name "Diigo" is an acronym from "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff".

thumb|350px|An outline in Emacs [[Org-mode.]] An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure or a tree view, for organization. Textual information is contained in discrete sections called "nodes", which are arranged according to their topic–subtopic (parent–child) relationships, like the members of a family tree. When loaded into an outliner, an outline may be collapsed or expanded to display as few or as many levels as desired.

Simplenote is a note-taking application with Markdown support. In addition to being accessible via most web browsers, cross-platform apps are available on Android, Linux, Windows, iOS, and macOS.

Mindomo is a web-based freemium collaborative diagramming and outlining tool that allows users to develop ideas and interactively brainstorm, with features including sharing, collaboration, task management. It is produced by Expert Software Applications.