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I need a desktop application for organizing notes (or outliner, journal …) with powerful tagging feature. I will use it for writing a lot of ideas and conclusions, so I need tags for quickly filtering very large number of texts. Tree structure is ok, but it is not enough for this purpose.

I tried about 20 different apps but I still can't find one that have all of this features:

  • powerful tag support (multiple tags can be assigned to one note, and later easy filtering notes using existing tags)
  • offline storing notes in (SQLite) database
  • strong encryption support
  • working on Linux and Windows
  • open source
  • rich text formating (it's ok to have just basic options for this)

I found a lot of good applications but often they haven't tag feature or it is useless. Good examples are Personal Historian and CintaNotes (have very nice tagging and save data in SQL Lite), but they are not open source or there is no Linux version.

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The best option I know of is zim wiki. It doesn't have encryption support but you could store notebooks in an encrypted volume with veracrypt or similar. The rest of the features you want it meets.

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  • It doesn't store data in single database file (which can be useful for data migration later), but it's probably the closest solution in this situation. Thanks!
    – R2-D2
    Sep 14, 2016 at 20:46
  • Hmm, I was pretty sure I had seen the ability to save in or export to a database. Can't find it now, sorry. I agree it's still your best option though. Everything being text files makes it simple to do whatever you want with them.
    – Tanath
    Sep 14, 2016 at 21:22

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