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Simple Notes vs Trilium Notes

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

Simple Notes

Simple Notes

Office & Productivity

Simple Notes is a free, open-source note taking app for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. It has basic formatting options, tagging, searching and organizing capabilities. Simple Notes emphasizes simplicity rather than extensive features.

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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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