QOwnNotes is the open source notepad for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that works together with the default notes application of ownCloud.

So you are able to write down your thoughts with QOwnNotes and edit or search for them later from your mobile device (like with CloudNotes or the ownCloud web-service.

The notes are stored as plain text files and are synced with ownCloud's file sync functionality. Of course other software, like Dropbox can be used too.

I like the concept of having notes accessible in plain text files, like it is done in the ownCloud notes app, to gain a maximum of freedom, but I was not able to find a decent desktop note taking tool or a text editor, that handles them well. Out of this need QOwnNotes was born.

Visit the project page here: QOwnNotes project page

You can visit the QOwnNotes project page for more screenshots.

• one or many notes folders can be chosen
• notes can be created, edited, viewed and removed
• list of notes is shown
• older versions of your notes can be restored from your ownCloud server (install QOwnNotesAPI on your server)
• trashed notes can be restored from your ownCloud server (install QOwnNotesAPI on your server)
• sub-string searching of notes is possible and search results are highlighted in the notes
• application can be operated with keyboard shortcuts.
• external changes of note files are watched (notes or note list are reloaded)
• differences between current note and externally changed note are showed in a dialog
• markdown highlighting of notes and a markdown preview mode
• notes are getting their name from the first line of the note text (just like in the ownCloud notes web-application) and the note text files are automatically renamed, if the the first line changes

To get the most current features you can build the application from the source code. Download the latest source here: QOwnNotes Source on GitHub as ZIP

Alternatively you can also checkout the code directly from the git repository:

git clone https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes.git -b develop

Then download Qt Creator, open the project file src/QOwnNotes.pro and clicking on Build / Build Project QOwnNotes.

Or you can build it at the command line:

cd QOwnNotes/src
qmake QOwnNotes.pro -r
make

Please feel free to contribute source code to this project, make suggestions or report troubles on the QOwnNotes issues page!

You can also visit QOwnNotes on GitHub.

• A desktop operating system, that supports QT
• QT 5.3+
• gcc 4.8+

Currently there are deb packages for GNU/Linux, DMGs for Mac OS X and ZIP-files for Windows. You can get them on the QOwnNotes project page or on the QOwnNotes releases page.

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