Notesnook
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
- Project Website
- https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook
- Platform
- License
- gpl-3.0
- Category
- Usecase
- Notetaking
- Technology
- Typescript Swift javascript Shell ruby c++ Makefile HTML SCSS Objective-C Objective-C++ OpenEdge ABL
- Offers premium version?
- NO
- Proprietary?
- NO
- About
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Notesnook
An end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
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Overview
Notesnook is a free (as in speech) & open-source note-taking app focused on user privacy & ease of use. To ensure zero knowledge principles, Notesnook encrypts everything on your device using
XChaCha20-Poly1305&Argon2.Notesnook is our proof that privacy does not (always) have to come at the cost of convenience. We aim to provide users peace of mind & 100% confidence that their notes are safe and secure. The decision to go fully open source is one of the most crucial steps towards that.
This repository contains all the code required to build & use the Notesnook web, desktop & mobile clients. If you are looking for a full feature list or screenshots, please check the website.
Developer guide Technologies & languages
Notesnook is built using the following technologies:
- JavaScript/Typescript — this repo is in a hybrid state. A lot of the newer code is being written in Typescript & the old code is slowly being ported over.
- React — the whole front-end across all platforms is built using React.
- React Native — For mobile apps we are using React Native
- Electron — For desktop app
- NPM — listed here because we don't use Yarn or PNPM or XYZ across any of our projects.
- Nx — maintaining monorepos is hard but Nx makes it easier.
Note: Each project in the monorepo contains its own architecture details which you can refer to.
Monorepo structure
Name Path Description
@notesnook/web/apps/web Web client@notesnook/desktop/apps/desktop Desktop client@notesnook/mobile/apps/mobile Android/iOS clients@notesnook/web-clipper/extensions/web-clipper Web clipper@notesnook/core/packages/core Shared core between all platforms@notesnook/crypto/packages/crypto Cryptography library wrapper around libsodium@notesnook/clipper/packages/clipper Web clipper core handling everything related to actual page clipping@notesnook/editor/packages/editor Notesnook editor + all extensions@notesnook/editor-mobile/packages/editor-mobile A very thin wrapper around@notesnook/editorfor mobile clients@notesnook/logger/packages/logger Simple & pluggable logger@notesnook/sodium/packages/sodium Wrapper around libsodium to support Node.js & Browser@notesnook/streamable-fs/packages/streamable-fs Streaming interface around an IndexedDB based file system@notesnook/theme/packages/theme The core theme used in web & desktop clientsContributing guidelines
If you are interested in contributing to Notesnook, I highly recommend checking out the contributing guidelines. You'll find all the relevant information such as style guideline, how to make a PR, how to commit etc., there.
Support & help
You can reach out to us via:
We take all queries, issues and bug reports that you might have. Feel free to ask.
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