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Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Drafts

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Simplenote Standard Notes Logseq FSNotes nvALT Joplin QuickJots Smart Text Editor Org mode Taskwarrior

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Drafts are Simplenote, Standard Notes, and Logseq. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.
  1. The simplest way to keep notes. Light, clean, and free. Simplenote is now available for iOS, Android, Mac, and the web.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Task Management #Note Taking 83 social mentions

  2. A safe place for your notes, thoughts, and life's work
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Notes #Private Journal #Personal Notes 129 social mentions

  3. 3
    Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Knowledge Management #Notes #Note Taking 289 social mentions

  4. File system notes manager
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Knowledge Management #Notes #Note Taking 22 social mentions

  5. 5
    A fork of the original Notational Velocity with some additional features and interface modifications
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Notes #Note Taking #Todos 12 social mentions

  6. 6
    Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Notes #Note Taking #Todos 354 social mentions

  7. Jot down quick notes and auto-save them with QuickJots. Use GitHub Flavoured Markdown to easily embed images, or even task-lists to track to-dos. It's private — all notes stay local; no login or downloads are needed. There's a dark mode too!
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free

    #Task Management #Open Source #Note Taking

  8. The text editor that requires only a browser and a keyboard
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Text Editors #Open Source #Note Taking

  9. Org: an Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Task Management #Note Taking 179 social mentions

  10. Taskwarrior is an ambitious project bringing sophisticated capabilities to a simple and elegant...
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Task Management #Note Taking 54 social mentions

  11. Track your tasks and projects in a plain text file, todo.txt. A todo.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Project Management #Task Management #Note Taking 40 social mentions

  12. Make plans inside an individual markdown note for every day in your calendar. Use it as a journal for your daily tasks and plan todos in advance. For Mac, iPhone and iPad.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Productivity #Task Management #Note Taking 35 social mentions

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