Open source notebook projects
Every project in the registry tagged notebook, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
AI-powered research notebook with full privacy control
Zero-knowledge encrypted notes that sync across all devices
AI-Powered Note Taking App
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + mo
Fast Markdown note-taking app for Mac and iPhone
Infinite canvas drawing/whiteboarding app for Windows, Linux and macOS. Made with Godot.
📚 Parameterize, execute, and analyze notebooks
A simple command line notebook
Thinking notebook and Markdown editor.
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
Glamorous Toolkit is the Moldable Development Environment. It empowers you to make systems explainable through contextual micro tools.
开源自托管笔记与私有知识库，支持 Markdown/富文本、AI 写作、思维导图、任务管理、全文搜索、多级笔记本和 Docker 一键部署。
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Frequently asked questions
How many open source notebook projects are there?
This registry tracks 12 projects tagged notebook, with 106,807 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is Open-Notebook at 41,377 stars.
Are these notebook projects free to use?
Yes — 12 of the 12 carry an explicit open-source licence across 7 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.
Which notebook project should I choose?
The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.
Are these notebook projects still maintained?
11 of the 12 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.