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Bookends vs Trilium Notes

A side-by-side look at Bookends and Trilium Notes. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Bookends

Bookends

Education & Reference

Bookends is a reference management software for macOS. It allows users to create and organize bibliographies and citations when writing essays and research papers. Key features include citation formatting, note taking, file attachment, and syncing across devices.

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Trilium Notes

Trilium Notes

Office & Productivity

Trilium Notes is an open-source hierarchical note taking application focused on building large personal knowledge bases. It has a tree-structured notes system allowing easy organization of ideas and supports features like linking between notes, embedding media, tagging, encryption, etc.

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