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Open Source Note Taking & Knowledge Management Tools
Open source note taking & knowledge management tools
All Note Taking & Knowledge Management tools
AI workspace for docs, projects, and wikis you control
Self-hosted timeline for quick notes, logs, and snippets
Encrypted note-taking that syncs across all your devices
Privacy-first knowledge management with block-level linking
Privacy-first knowledge base that connects your notes
AI-powered research notebook with full privacy control
Fast, collaborative wiki for teams who need organized docs
AI second brain for research, automation, and personal agents
Self-hosted wiki with AI, compliance, and real-time editing
Local-first, Git-native personal knowledge base with AI
Privacy-first knowledge base with any AI model you choose
Collect, organize, cite, and share research in one place
Zero-knowledge encrypted notes that sync across all devices
A pleasant note-taking platform in native C++.
AI-Powered Note Taking App
Private meeting notes, no bots, files you own
Private workspace for notes, tasks, and databases
⛷ Lightweight Markdown app to help you write great sentences.
Fast Markdown note-taking app for Mac and iPhone
Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app for Windows, Linux and macOS. Made with Godot.
Secure, encrypted notes for your digital life
An open source personal productivity platform built on Markdown, turbo charged with the scripting power of Lua
QOwnNotes is a plain-text file notepad and todo-list manager with Markdown support and Nextcloud / ownCloud integration.
A self-organizing Obsidian vault that gives AI coding agents persistent memory. Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI.
TagSpaces is an offline, open source, document manager with tagging support
The cross-platform open-source app built for handwriting
Fast and beautiful note-taking app written in C++. Write down your thoughts.
Mobile first Note Taking integrated with Git
Write Markdown with code assist and intelligence in the comfort of your favourite editor.
A simple command line notebook
Thinking notebook and Markdown editor.
A high-performance, cross-platform editor that supports WYSIWYG Markdown and general text editing.
🎨 Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app
TidGi is an privacy-in-mind, automated, auto-git-backup, freely-deployed knowledge management Desktop note app, based on Tiddlywiki, with REST API for web-clipp
Collaborative content creation for technical teams
【Zotero AI 管家】调用大模型,自动精读论文库里的论文,总结为Zotero笔记。支持主流大模型平台!您只需像往常一样把文献丢进 Zotero, 管家会自动帮您精读论文,将文章揉碎了总结为笔记,让您“十分钟完全了解”这篇论文!
Markdown knowledge graph — LSP for your editor, CLI + MCP memory for your AI agents
Open-source Reflect rewrite: A local-first AI agent-friendly Markdown note-taking app
Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through contextual micro tools.
A lightweight, rollbackable, and visual Long-Term Memory Server for MCP Agents. Say goodbye to Vector RAG and amnesia. Empower your AI with persistent, graph-li
Local-first notes app with no cloud, no AI, no tracking
Open-source knowledge management and collaboration platform
An app to help you capture thoughts and ideas
Git powered terminal-based todo/note manager -- markdown note page per task. Single binary!
Clean, distraction-free note-taking with local storage
A Beautiful Memo App written with Jetpack Compose. 开源Android闪念笔记App。
PM Brain OS: The Second Brain for Product Managers, Made of Markdown
An app to help you capture thoughts and ideas
Open-source coding agents memory. Records issues, attempts, fixes and decisions, then warns your agent before it repeats an approach that already failed. Native
One memory layer, every AI tool. Store anything once — recall it in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client. Self-hosted on Cloudflare's free tier.
A 100% private AI voice transcription app that converts speech to text in 100+ languages. Built with Compose Multiplatform for Android & iOS using Whisper AI -
Minimalistic Android note taking App | Notally, but eXtended.
Your thinking deserves a map: an infinite canvas where LLM conversations grow into an editable thought graph. Wires are the context.
OpenWiki — Mac desktop AI knowledge management tool. Capture clipboard, build personal wiki, get AI insights.
End-to-end encrypted visual note-taking tool with deep page navigation.
A persistent, file-based memory layer for coding agents — give Claude Code, Codex & others a project brain (durable decisions, requirements, constraints) via a
A minimal, distraction-free markdown editor built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript
The next-generation Markdown editor, with an AI writing assistant. Free and open source for macOS, Windows and Linux.
Kition brings Markdown, DataTable, WhiteBoard, a tool-using AI agent, browser research, and visual workflows into one desktop workspace.
Distraction-free note-taking with powerful features
Fast, secure, and free personal note-taking app
Privacy-focused note-taking made simple and fast
Self-hosted sticky notes with better organization
Frequently asked questions
How many open source Note Taking & Knowledge Management tools are there?
This registry tracks 63 open source Note Taking & Knowledge Management projects, with 655,544 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.
What is the most popular open source Note Taking & Knowledge Management project?
AppFlowy leads this category with 78,112 GitHub stars, followed by Memos.
Are these Note Taking & Knowledge Management tools free?
Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.