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Products that do what Marginotes, quick and elegant side notes for your paragraphs does

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Paragraphs▲272
A minimalist writing app for Mac
2015
2UN
Umbrella Note – Simple app for notes and journals▲71
2018 · umbrellanote.com
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SideNotes 1.3▲259
Quick Notes on Screen Side
2021
4TN
Trilium Notes – Scriptable note-taking application▲328
2019 · github.com
5SN
Simple note-taking and blogging▲57
2018 · notepin.co
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SideNotes▲290
Clean notes with superpowers on the side of your monitor
2019
7NM
Note, my simple command-line note taking app▲81
2021 · github.com
8OS
Open source non-linear notepad app▲222
2018 · getmicropad.com
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SideNotes▲134
Take notes on your screen side
May 2026
10OC
One-click citations for your essays▲65
2014 · speedcite.com
11VA
VNote, a fresh Markdown note-taking app▲80
2018 · tamlok.github.io
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a5▲181
Takes notes in your browser. Elegant & simple.
2015
13AM
A Markdown Notepad App▲57
2019 · github.com
14NE
Notepag.es - Markdown/LaTeX editor for quick technical documents.▲100
2011 · notepag.es
15PA
Posce, a note-taking toolkit for your command-line▲54
2020 · github.com
16CO
CrushPaper – Open-Source Workflowy and Evernote for Writers, Students▲56
2015 · crushpaper.com
17YA
YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first▲68
2018 · yournote.app
18S1
SideNotes 1.0 for macOS – Clean notes on the side of your monitor▲52
2019 · apptorium.com
19WA
WingNotes – A two-column, markdown notes web app for referential notes▲19
2019 · wingnotes.co
20CC
Collate: Cross platform note taking app based on plain text data format▲85
2017 · collatenotes.com
21SP
Spaceboard – Pinterest for Markdown Notes▲49
2020 · github.com
22NS
Notes. Simple flexible unix-y note taking▲15
2016 · github.com
23FL
Fast, Local, Linked Notes▲7
2020 · jottt.xyz
24AA
AlephNote – A Simplenote/Standardnote client▲44
2017 · mikescher.github.io

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