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24 alternatives to Jot: Rapid note management for the terminal, inspired by Obsidian
⚡Rapid note management for the terminal. Contribute to shashwatah/jot development by creating an account on GitHub.
Jot is a command-line tool for managing notes quickly in the terminal, taking design inspiration from Obsidian. It's built for developers and power users who prefer working in the terminal and want to organize notes… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Jot: Rapid note management for the terminal, inspired by Obsidian launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Jot▲115Simplest notes app for the Mac Menu Bar the world has seen.
2020 · getjot.app · its alternatives →
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for thoughts you’re embarrassed to open Notion for.
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Jots▲292Unlock the benefits of journaling to become a better dev.
2025 · daily-jots.com · its alternatives →
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Jot▲120An essential app for quickly collecting thoughts and ideas
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Daily notes command line tool. Contribute to tomlockwood/dn development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A fast journal app for those spontaneous thoughts and ideas
2017 · jot.webflow.io · its alternatives →
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Jot & Paste▲85Keyboard-oriented desktop app for fast note-taking and paste
2022 · jotnpaste.com · its alternatives →
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A command line simple note taking app. Contribute to wsw70/note development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everybody! We (lukeflo and me) have made a little notes management tui written in bash based on fff by Dylan Araps, which we've improved a lot to make it a notes management tui. It uses your editor of choice to edit and create notes, you can fuzzy search your notes and search them by tags you give them by writing them in the markdown yaml or emacs org header. All in all it turned out to be a surprisingly good project that we now want to refine after just releasing v1.0, so any feedback, suggestions or criticism is very welcome!
2024 · codeberg.org · its alternatives →
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Create notes, to-do lists and complete upcoming tasks
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, Motivated by this discussion https://goo.gl/te4BFv, I have created a simple (free and open-source) command line note organizer. The tool, called npmnotes, take a folder with notes (written in markdown/texdown) and creates a webpage that lets you search and browse through the notes. You can then publish this webpage or use it locally. The result (built with npmnotes) looks something like this https://npmnotes.org. Currently, this is just a (working) prototype and I plan to add more features soon (based on the feedback I get). What do you think of it?
2018 · its alternatives →
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QuickJots▲64Jot down & auto-save quick notes, in Markdown or plain text
2019 · quickjots.app · its alternatives →
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Simple tool for creating and organizing daily notes on the command line - dkaslovsky/textnote
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi! I've been using a similar browser extension for a long time. It kept me motivated. I decided to create the same thing for the terminal where I spend a lot of time.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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