CherryTree
Giuseppe Penone
Hierarchical notes in a tree, with rich text, code boxes and tables — a whole technical notebook in one file.
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Freeplane
Freeplane team
Mind maps and tree structures — project breakdowns, fault trees, report planning and study summaries.
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GNU TeXmacs
GNU TeXmacs project
A WYSIWYG scientific document editor with maths, and direct sessions in Maxima, Octave and Python.
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JabRef
JabRef community
BibTeX and BibLaTeX reference manager — papers, standards and theses, working with LaTeX and LyX.
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Joplin
Joplin
Notes and to-do app with encrypted sync — site diaries, checklists and project documentation.
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Logseq
Logseq
Outliner-style notes and a daily journal kept as local text files — for meeting notes, tasks and technical know-how.
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LyX
LyX team
A graphical LaTeX-based document editor — theses, papers and technical reports with equations.
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Obsidian
Obsidian
A local knowledge base of Markdown files with links and a graph view — for project notes, design decisions and lessons learned.
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OpenBoard
OpenBoard (Canton of Geneva education department)
Interactive whiteboard for teaching and presentations — write on screen with a pen or mouse, for classrooms and lectures.
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Pandoc
John MacFarlane
A universal document converter — Markdown, Word, LaTeX, HTML and PDF, so a report is written once and exported anywhere.
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QOwnNotes
QOwnNotes project
Markdown notes as plain text files, with Nextcloud sync, to-do lists and encryption.
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Typst
Typst
Modern typesetting for technical reports and equations — simpler syntax than LaTeX and instant compiling.
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Zettlr
Zettlr project
A Markdown editor for technical writing and theses — Zotero citations, LaTeX equations and export via Pandoc.
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Zim Desktop Wiki
Jaap Karssenberg
A desktop wiki that stores pages as plain text files — project logbooks, procedures and meeting notes.
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Zotero
Corporation for Digital Scholarship
Reference and bibliography manager — save papers and standards, annotate PDFs and cite automatically in Word.
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Rnote
Rnote project
Sketches and handwritten notes on an infinite canvas — mark up PDFs and images with a pressure-sensitive pen.
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TriliumNext community
A hierarchical knowledge base for large engineering notebooks — code, canvas, diagrams, encryption and self-hosted sync.
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