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Tangent Notes vs Trilium Notes

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

Tangent Notes

Tangent Notes

Office & Productivity

Tangent Notes is a free, open-source note taking app for Windows, Mac and Linux. It allows you to take notes, annotate PDFs, organize research papers and more. Key features include backlinks, Markdown support, tabs and more.

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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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