After I destroyed what credibility I had left with the Open Source community last week, gushing over and, in particular,, a Mac user emailed me and asked if I knew of any cross-platform tools that were similar to OneNote. I figured it was worth taking a step back from my love of OneNote and poking around to see what I could find. As it turns out, there are a lot of applications that work well across browsers or in the cloud for taking notes. Although none, in my opinion, work as well or as intuitively as OneNote, all of the applications listed below are either free and/or open source and will do the trick in many settings. In fact, if you're looking for a note-taking App, they're all worth a look. Just because OneNote works best with my little brain, others may find software devoted to mind-mapping or that follows more of a wiki format works better for their particular brains. Type Name OS Summary Text/Freestyle Windows, Mac, Linux (it works and looks best on Windows and Linux) • Supports mouse and touch pen input/hand drawings • Supports multiple pages • Looks and feels like a 'notebook', lined paper and all Windows, Mac, Linux • Still in alpha • Mac application would not open Windows, Mac, and iPad/iPod • Cloud sync • Rich, notebook-style interface • Easy integration with web browsers to clip links and pages • Check boxes, to-dos, etc.

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Jul 3, 2018 - Looking for lightweight and free OneNote alternatives? Here are top 10 OneNote alternatives (free and paid) for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android,. Gorillized's Outline was developed to be a OneNote alternative before OneNote hit the Macintosh last year. It was originally designed as a mere reader of OneNote files on iPad, but turned into a full-blown editor and has since added Mac support too.

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