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Memos

Open-source, self-hosted note-taking tool built for quick capture. Markdown-native, lightweight, and fully yours.

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SiYuan

A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.

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Logseq

A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV

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SilverBullet

An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua

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QOwnNotes

QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.

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