Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft OneNote
A note-taking and knowledge-management platform that lets users create, organize, and share digital notebooks across devices via a web interface, supporting text, images, drawings, and audio recordings.
Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Microsoft OneNote give you an option you fully own. Run them on your own server or desktop, so your data stays under your control. This page lists 4 open source alternatives to Microsoft OneNote. The most popular are Joplin, Zim and P3X OneNote. Most use the AGPL-3.0 or GPL-2.0 license, and 1 offers an official Docker image.
Joplin
Manage notes and to-do lists with markdown support, end-to-end encryption, and synchronization across multiple cloud services.
Zim
A graphical text editor for maintaining a collection of wiki pages stored as plain text files.
P3X OneNote
An independent desktop wrapper for OneNote that allows multiple account sessions on Linux and other platforms.
Darkwrite
An offline first note editor with rich text formatting, custom themes, and local storage for private note taking.
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