It's a personal knowledge management solution (PKM) built specifically for developers and integrates natively with IDEs like VS Code and VSCodiumĭenote is simple notes for Emacs with an efficient file-naming scheme.įoam describes itself as a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code and GitHub. It is open source.ĭendron describes itself as an open-source, local-first, markdown-based, note-taking tool. Importing contents such as images and documentsįor now just a list of various KMS that were brought up in these discussions.Īnother notes app is an Android app that strives to provide a simple way to take notes.īookStack is an open source self-hosted, easy-to-use platform for organizing and storing information.ĬherryTree describes itself as a hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.Searching based on contents, metadata and folder.Meta data such as title, keywords, abstract, name and date of creation, name and date of editing etc.Simple markup such as Wiki or Markdown, typically bold, italics, strike through, underlining.To retrieve information you need keywords, title, abstract, categories, and complexities quickly increases. Instead you end up with the 'sunflower syndrome' - yellow paper bits surround your monitor until it looks like a deranged sunflower.

The problem comes when you want to retrieve information and yellow notes do not scale. This sounds simple, and yellow post-its abound. KMS is simply about collecting information so that you can easily retrieve it and also share it with other people. People talk a lot about KMS but usually it is too abstract stuff and colorful presentations with fashionable drop shadows, and when everything has been said and done, too much has been said and nothing has been done. This page is meant to collect useful information and make sure future discussion keep progressing rather than noodling around in small circles. Every now and then there is a discussion on /g/ or /sci/ about note taking, notes, second brain or knowledge management systems (KMS).

Cherrytree notes platforms