Overview

Edit your notes with markdown highlighting, colored tags and subfolders

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Q for the Qt framework (opens new window) that is used
Own because you own your own notes
Notes for the notes you take

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QOwnNotes (opens new window) is the open source (GPL) plain-text file markdown note taking application for GNU/Linux, macOS and Windows, that (optionally) works together with the notes application (opens new window) of Nextcloud (opens new window) and ownCloud (opens new window).

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Understand the concept of QOwnNotes

Features

• You can use your existing text or markdown files, no need for an import
• QOwnNotes is written in C++ and optimized for low resource consumption (no CPU and memory-hungry Electron app)
• Evernote and Joplin import
• Compatible with the Notes (opens new window) application of Nextcloud / ownCloud and mobile and Nextcloud Text
• Create Nextcloud Deck (opens new window) cards and link to them in your notes
• Support for sharing notes on your ownCloud / Nextcloud server
• Manage your Nextcloud / ownCloud todo lists (Nextcloud tasks or Tasks Plus / Calendar Plus) or use another CalDAV server to sync your tasks to
• Older versions of your notes can be restored from your Nextcloud / ownCloud server
• Trashed notes can be restored from your Nextcloud / ownCloud server
• External changes of note files are watched (notes or note list are reloaded)
• Support for hierarchical note tagging and note subfolders
• Optional encryption of notes, AES-256 is built in, or you can use custom encryption methods like Keybase.io (opens new window) (encryption-keybase.qml (opens new window)) or PGP (encryption-pgp.qml (opens new window))
• The notes folder can be freely chosen (multiple note folders can be used)
• Searching parts of words in notes is possible and search results are highlighted in the notes
• Browser extension to add notes from the selected text, make screenshots or manage your bookmarks
• Spellchecking support
• Portable mode for carrying QOwnNotes around on USB sticks
• Scripting support and an online script repository (opens new window) where you can install scripts inside the application
• Vim mode
• Web application to insert photos from your mobile phone into the current note in QOwnNotes on your desktop

Appearance

• Markdown highlighting of notes and a markdown preview mode
• Dark mode theme support
• Theming support for the Markdown syntax highlighting
• All panels can be placed wherever you want, they can even float or stack (fully dockable)
• Support for freedesktop theme icons, you can use QOwnNotes with your native desktop icons and with your favorite dark desktop theme
• Distraction free mode, Full-screen mode and Typewriter mode
• Line numbers
• Differences between current note and externally changed note are showed in a dialog

Languages

• Available in more than 60 different languages like English, German, French, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Dutch and Spanish
  • Your help is very much appreciated to improve these translations or to translate QOwnNotes in more languages