Notes & writing

Top 5 free

Week of 7 September

17-ZipNewly trackedNew
2AutoHotkeyNewly trackedNew
3EspansoNewly trackedNew
4Super ProductivityNewly trackedNew
5JoplinNewly trackedNew

Top 5 paid

Week of 7 September

1ActivityWatchNewly trackedNew
2MakeNewly trackedNew
3MemNewly trackedNew
4Napkin AINewly trackedNew
5NotionNewly trackedNew

Napkin AI

napkin.ai

Turns written text into diagrams that make sense.

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$9/monthNo training on your data

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Mem

get.mem.ai

Notes that organise and resurface themselves.

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$9/monthNo training on your data

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Standard Notes

standardnotes.com

No AI

Encrypted notes designed to still work in twenty years.

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$90/year

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Obsidian

obsidian.md

No AI

Local-first notes stored as plain markdown files you own.

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Logseq

logseq.com

No AI

Outliner notes with backlinks, kept as plain files on your disk.

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Free tierOpen source

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Joplin

joplinapp.org

No AI

Open source notes with end to end encrypted sync you can point anywhere.

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Free tierOpen source

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LibreOffice

libreoffice.org

No AI

The full office suite, free, offline, no account.

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Pandoc

pandoc.org

No AI

Converts documents between almost any two formats from the command line.

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CloudConvert

cloudconvert.com

No AI

Browser file conversion across a very long list of formats.

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Notion

notion.com

Hybrid

Documents, databases and wikis, with AI features you can ignore.

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£8.50/monthNo training on your data

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