20 best alternatives to SnippetsLab as of 2018 - Slant

Boostnote

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Great for developers

Boostnote is great for developers looking to take programming notes with code snippets and such. See More

Top Con

Some of the features are not consistent

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Free

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Must use third-party service for sync-ing (Dropbox, etc.)

Boostnote does not have sync-ing capabilities and relies on third-party services to fulfil notes storage. There are additional steps involved to set this up. See More

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Markdown support

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Very poor syncing

Data loss may occur on syncing. See More

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Supports code snippets and syntax highlighting

Boostnote has the ability to store code snippets and comes with syntax highlighting out of the box, supporting many languages. See More

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Works offline

Boostnote doesn't require an internet connection to work. You can write notes offline and sync later. See More

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Global search, tag feature

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Open source

https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote See More

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Cross platform support

Supports Windows, macOS and Linux. See More

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Comes with many themes

Boostnote comes with many themes out of the box, most of which are popular themes and color schemes for code editors: e.g. 3024, base16, solarized, tomorrow. See More

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vim/emacs key bindings available

Boostnote supports vim/emacs key bindings. If you're a developer familiar with either of them, navigation should be easy to pick up. See More

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Platforms:Windows/MacOS/Linux/Andoid/iOS

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Elephant

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Only the essentials

Only basic features are added to Elephant so users aren't overloaded with the interface. See More

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No mobile app

No mobile apps (can use common sync tools to edit plain files, though). See More

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Files are stored locally

Instead of moving files over the cloud, files are stored locally for extra privacy. For syncing, any cloud service can be used. See More

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No WYSIWYG editor

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Open source

All features can be used or edited at will for free. See More

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Light on features

While not labeled a beta, Elephant is a new note program and doesn't offer all the bells and whistles. See More

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Markdown supported

This can be useful when formatting files in HTML. See More

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Files can be uploaded by drag'n'drop

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Highly compatible

Elephant is compatible with Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. See More

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Active development

The developer has replied, and added many features which users have suggested in the comments on the website. See More

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Platforms:Windows; Linux; OSX

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Quiver

Top Pro

Has more features than just a simple Markdown editor

Quiver is a notebook and note-taking app akin to Evernote which happens to also be able to edit Markdown files. As such, it has a lot of useful features such as: image support, file attachments, web content support and more. See More

Top Con

No iOS apps for editing, only a viewer available

I'd LOVE to edit and create quiver notes on my iPad! See More

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Supports code highlighting

Has syntax highlighting for more than 120 programming languages. See More

Top Con

The line in focus shows a border around it which is distracting

The line in focus in the editor shows a rounded rectangular border around it, which is unappealing and distracting. See More

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Supports vi keybindings

For people used to vi keybindings, Quiver can be set up to work with them. See More

Top Con

Much more than a simple Markdown editor

Since it's more like a note-taking app (and a note-taking app built for developers) than a Markdown editor, it may be a little excessive to use it only for its Markdown editing features. See More

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Live preview

Quiver has live preview for both Markdown and LaTeX. This helps users to better understand the way they are formatting their files. See More

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Notes can be linked to each-other

Quiver notes have unique links that can be copied and pasted into other notes to gain quick access between them. See More

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Combination of different types of writing in one note

The most outstanding thing for me. Use HTML line breaks while writing MD text. Also, unlike most hybrid editors like Bear, it supports instant image sizing and respective preview. See More

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Cloud syncing

Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, or any other file-based cloud services. See More

Specs

Platforms:macOS

License:Proprietary

Export:Text, Markdown, LaTeX

Preview:Live Preview

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{CodeStore}

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Multiple languages

{CodeStore} is available in English and German. See More

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No export

No export supported. See More

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Multiple platforms

Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac and also brings a web client. See More

Top Con

€10 per year for unrestricted use

For unrestricted use of all features, an account is required that costs €10 per year. See More

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Free to use

{CodeStore} is free to download. See More

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Java required

Requires a Java installation to run. See More

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Share with users

Supports sharing snippets with other users or setting a snippet as "public" to make it visible on the website for all developers in the world. See More

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Cloud synchronization

Automatic synchronization with the {CodeStore} cloud. No iCloud or Dropbox required. See More

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Syntax highlighting

Syntax highlighting for over 25 programming languages. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Windows, Linux, Mac

Price:Free / €10 p.a.

Sync:{CodeStore} cloud (proprietary)

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Joplin

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Supports markdown

Top Con

Sync issue under Linux

The Linux client has a bug that requires the user to click the mouse frequently in order for sync to proceed. This bug has been open for a while. See More

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Offline access

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No dark theme

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Cross-platform

Supports Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. See More

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Can't create tags from the mobile app

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Supports tags for notes

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Supports multiple languages

English, French, and Spanish. See More

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Supports file attachments

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Encryption

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Web Clipper

Browser extension saves full pages, clean content, or screen selections to new notes. See More

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Open source

Peace of mind that there is no malicious piece of software in the app. See More

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Nextcloud support

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Active user forum with support from app creators

Support, troubleshooting, and new feature requests are easy to make at the user forum and you can contact the app creator directly. See More

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Optional CLI interface

Provides a CLI interface for terminal lovers. See More

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Timed alarm reminder for to-do lists

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Platforms:Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS

Cross Platform:Yes

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Zoho Notebook

Top Pro

Completely free, ad-free, with unlimited devices

Zoho (the company behind Notebook) has been providing free, advertisement-free, productivity applications for over a decade, and this one is no different. See More

Top Con

Migrate from Evernote non functional

The migrate from Evernote function resulted in blank notes. The headers are there but blank notes See More

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Cloud sync

As an Evernote alternative, Notebook securely stores notes to the cloud, allowing you to access notes on all of your mobile devices, while the sync is seamless. Also, web app support is coming soon. See More

Top Con

Available on limited platforms

Currently there is no web app or Windows version available. They are working on both, but there is no set release date. See More

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Pre-built checklist and audio notes

Rather than create a checklist within a text note, Notebook has a pre-built checklist card, which makes creating them really easy. Plus the items you check off move to the bottom of the note. Audio notes work the same way. Rather than treat audio notes like attachments (as Evernote does), Notebook has a pre-built audio note which is really nice, very similar to Evernote in that fashion, which makes it a good alternative. See More

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Great UI

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Easy to use

If you've ever used Evernote, then you know it has lot's of menus and that doing simple things requires lots of taps. Notebook is designed to be more functional, and lets you take and access notes quickly. See More

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Platforms:Mac, iOS, Web, Android

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NoteLedge

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Essential brush kit

NoteLedge comes with 6 built-in brushes (pencil, crayon, spray gun, ink brush, pigment liner and fountain pen) for versatile note-taking purposes. You can get advanced pens like vector brush, smart pen for shape recognition, marker and rainbow brush through subscription or in-app purchase. See More

Top Con

Not available for Linux

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Cross-platform

NoteLedge is available on iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8. See More

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Clip everything from the Web to your notes

There's a built in browser where you can select and paste texts to your notes, clip images, clip and ember online videos and audio clips, or crop screenshots on webpages. It's very useful for collecting information from the web. See More

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Multimedia supported

It is possible to record or insert videos, record audio, and take notes simultaneously. It is easy to put text, handwriting, drawings, audio and video recordings altogether in one note. See More

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Personalize your own notebook

NoteLedge comes with tons of built-in papers, covers and stickers. You can also customize your own paper, cover or stickers with your own photos. It's easy to make scrapbook style notes with NoteLedge. See More

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Share and back up notes easily

NoteLedge supports major cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box. Additionally, you can use the developer's own cloud service, Kdan Creative Cloud, to sync and access the notes across device with ease. You can share notes as images on Facebook, Twitter, or Email. See More

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Platforms:Windows; OSX; iOS; Android

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Notebooks

Top Pro

You control how to sync the data - better privacy

Services like Paper (Dropbox), Evernote, Google, OneNote (Microsoft)... and many others, keep your data in format they can read when it syncs with their servers. That means their admins can read your data (see recent scandal with Evernote privacy policy), they can be compelled to give it to law-enforcement and, if hackers manage to breach their servers, the hackers can read it too. With Notebooks, you choose how to sync your data, which means that you can do it using a privacy-friendly service, such as SpiderOak, Tresorit, Sync.com or iDrive, which sync your data using end-to-end encryption. This means that although they use their servers to sync your data, their servers store an encrypted version to which the service does not hold the key. Your data stays private. See More

Top Con

No Linux support

Not able to install on any Linux-based OS. See More

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Powerful and grows according to your needs

Notebooks have many features including WYSIWYG editing and Markdown support. While these may be considered power-user features, they are there if the user ever needs them. This makes the app versatile, as it can appeal to the user who just wants to take notes just as much as the user who needs to edit complicated documents. See More

Top Con

Each platform app has an individual cost

Say if you want to use the desktop app on OSX, that will have an individual cost. This cost does not carry over if the Windows app needs to be used as that has its own cost as well. Basically you have to pay for each platform you want to use this app on. While there are no recurring fees, the individual cost for each platform can add up. See More

Top Pro

No recurring fees

There are no reoccurring fees connected to this app: pay once for the platform you would like to use it on, and that's it. See More

Top Con

Cloud sharing has to be done with a third party

Notebooks does not provide its own synchronizing and back-up. The user will therefore need to use a service (such as Dropbox) which has built-in support, but which is a service not connected with the creators of this app. See More

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Available on multiple platforms

As an Evernote alternative, Notebooks is available on iOS as well as OS X and Windows operating systems. This makes for a convenient way to manage one's notes or tasks on multiple devices See More

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Unclutter

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Keep desktop clean(er)

Instead of keeping commonly used files on the desktop, you can tuck them away to the top of the screen. This can unclutter your screen, or create more room for more icons if you like quick access to everything. See More

Top Con

Can't keep visor open when typing in other applications

The unclutter visor will not stay open when working/typing in other apps. Sometimes it is desirable to use the visor to re-type things, it's not possible outside of copying and pasting, or opening and re-closing the visor. See More

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Convenient and fast access to files and notes

Unclutter lives in the navbar at the top of your screen, and is always accessible. Any files and notes stored in Unclutter can be quickly accessed from anywhere, with just a mouse movement and scrolling down. See More

Top Con

$10 seems a bit much for what it does

Specs

Platforms:MacOS

Sync:Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, etc.

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Emacs Org-mode

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Files are usable anywhere at anytime

Users are not tied to one service provider, program, platform, or database engine. See More

Top Con

Android app isn't very good

There are several user-created apps for Android, but none seem to offer the same level of functionality as other to-do apps. See More

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Ultimate flexibility

This app's flexibility is based on its minimalist approach, giving the user near-infinite freedom. See More

Top Con

By default, a hard-to-read display

The default way of writing an outline or checklist creates a very messy wall of text that's difficult to read with no vertical spacing. You can manually add vertical spacing, but the Org operations don't preserve it. There are pretty-display modes, but you need to remember how to enable them, etc. etc. See More

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Agenda views

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Unintuitive user interface

The key combinations are unintuitive and difficult to remember. This is probably because there are a lot of hidden "modes" depending on where the cursor is. Actions aren't paired with reversing actions like in other todo apps. For example, hitting shift-tab does NOT reverse the effect of hitting tab. See More

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There are a lot of extensions, for exporting to html, bootstrap, js-reveal and much more.

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Absolutely free

Emacs with Org-mode is free as in beer and free as in speech – that is, it costs nothing and it’s totally open source. See More

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Incredibly extensible

There are many plug-ins for Org-mode, including Org-habits and Org-notify. If Org-mode lacks some piece of functionality, it is very easy to add it. See More

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Supports plaintext spreadsheets

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Efficient features for deadline organization

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Quickly add rich text

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Excellent unofficial Android app (orgzly)

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Platforms:Linux / OSX / Windows

Collaborative:no

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Turtl

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Good security

After assigning a password to your account in Turtl, a key is created to encrypt the entire account. No data is stored on their servers meaning they have no access to unencrypted content. This is a huge leg up when comparing to other Evernote alternatives. See More

Top Con

No image embedding

Instead of image embeddings, there's a sort of poor man's substitute: image + description. If you add an image, you can create a description of any size and with all the formatting features. It can be used instead of image embedding but much more limited: only one image and only at the very top. See More

Top Pro

Multiple Platforms (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, Firefox, Chrome)

Turtl has applications for all the major operating systems, as well as Android. In addition, there are extensions available for Firefox and Chrome that cooperate with the downloadable applications. See More

Top Con

Internet dependent

Requires Internet connection to initiate offline mode, loses access to notes without Internet or server. See More

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Open source

The app is licensed under GPLv3 making it open source. This means that anyone can use the code and contribute. This also makes it easy to use on one's own server or for company solutions. See More

Top Con

No iOS app

While many other operating systems have a client, iOS does not have one yet (though it is planned). See More

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Platforms:Windows, Linux, Android

Cross Platform:yes

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Dash

Top Pro

Great fast documentation lookup

Has a handy sublime plugin. Press CTRL-H and it jumps straight to the docs for that object. See More

Top Con

Forced wait time to view docs

If you use the free version you are very often forced to wait 10 seconds to view something you've chosen to look at. If you change apps or lose focus of Dash, it'll start that 10 second timer over again. A real crappy thing to do to your users in order to get them to buy it. Forcing you to waste your time. See More

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Integrates well with a good selection of apps

They provide very useful integration with apps that are very fitting with using Dash's features. Once integrated, you can really get the feel for being a must have part of the app its integrating with. See More

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Great utility app to use for snippets

Snippet apps come in various forms, such as basic snippet (text) containers and added features with text / keyboard utilities to name a couple. This app not only includes this feature, but takes it a bit further than most by adding unique ways to further customize this practice to your own preference. See More

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Easy to create new docsets in case there isn't one that exits already

Gives plenty of guides and information on how to generate a docset. See More

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RhodeCode

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High security

It's open source and it can be installed on your own machine, which gives high security and isolated environment for the codes. Whole application installation is super easy and independent from the Linux distribution. See More

Top Con

Hard to maintain and upgrade

The documentation is not very clear and it's hard to troubleshoot if there is a failure. See More

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Supports 3 major version control systems

RhodeCode supports Mercurial, Git and Subversion in a unified way that allows you to do code-reviews and other stuff on each of them. See More

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Centralized user management

User management is centralized around administrators which can give granular permissions to individual users or user groups/. These permissions can be related to allowing contributions, editing, or simply giving read-only access to users. See More

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Powerful and flexible code review

Code reviews can be done via Pull Requests, or simply commit-by-commit. There are voting rules, random reviewers pools, and smart comment invalidation logic. Pull requests are also versioned so it's easy to review partial changes after the author has updated his code. When you create a Pull-request you can add set of reviewers. They all have to vote and approve the PR. There's some flexibility on how the voting is accepted, it can be majority wins, or all-agree. Good practice is to add BOT accounts like jenkins, that also will vote on the review, based on for example tests run, and can forbid a merge because of a negative vote. In addition users can leave special type of comments that will also prevent merges, aka TODO notes. Once TODOs are resolved a Pull Request can be merged. See More

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Free and Open Source

RhodeCode CE (Community Edition ) is free and open source. Enterprise Edition (EE) adds premium support, corporate authentication. and tool integrations on top of the RhodeCode CE. See More

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Integrates fully with LDAP/AD and others

RhodeCode has auth plugins, now supported include: LDAP, LDAP with user groups, TOKEN, Container auth, PAM See More

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Online editing with preview

Files can be added, modified and deleted from the web interface, including adding directories, and uploading files. See More

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Best in class permission system

RhodeCode have the most advanced Permission system on the market, allowing things like permission inheritance, permission delegation. All comes in a format that doesn't get hard to manage at scale. See More

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Header authentication plugin allows auth delegation to 3rd party systems

The builtin header auth can delegate authentication to other existing systems for further validation chain. See More

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Simplenote

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Geared towards fast usage

Unlike alternatives (such as Evernote) that are laden with features, Simplenote is fast to use and sync. Reviews from the Verge, Lifehacker, and a variety of other sources all describe using the Simplenote apps as very fast. While it may not be as feature-rich as other apps, the responsiveness of the app and simple interface keep it easy to use while never slowing down the user when they need to quickly take a note. See More

Top Con

Search is limited to one tag

There seems to be no way to find notes that have both tag X and tag Y. This isn't a big deal until you have a large library of notes, and want to cross-search for two things at the same time to vastly narrow down your search. See More

Top Pro

Works offline

Users can edit and create documents offline, can then sync their content the next time they are online. This way a user can work even when there's no data connection without the worry of losing work. See More

Top Con

Limited ways to reorder notes

You are able to sort your notes alphabetically, date modified, or by last created. There is no way to drag and drop the notes to create a custom order. See More

Top Pro

Very simple and clean interface

Simplenote takes a minimalist approach to its interface. There are no toolbars full of formatting options or extra features like notebooks to group notes. The entire desktop interface consists solely of a sidebar with your tags and trash filters, the list of existing notes with search, a button to add a new note and a simple view for looking an existing note or writing a new one. See More

Top Con

No 32-bit version

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"Time machine" style revision control on the notes

Each edit of a note is saved in order to allow the user to go back to a previous version of a document. This way, if mistakes are made or something is deleted, you can go back to the previous version without any hassle. See More

Top Con

No widgets on Android

There is no way to view a list of the notes in Simplenote via a Widget on Android. See More

Top Pro

Markdown support via web interface

There is support for Markdown when using the web app. This can be convenient for those who want to use Markdown in a particular note. See More

Top Con

No support for file attachments

Simplenote doesn't provide support for embedded attachments. This can limit the use for some as many other note-taking apps do support this type of feature. See More

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Desktop app is open source

The desktop version of Simplenote is hosted on the GitHub and since it is open source, it can allow developers to fork the code in order to improve the app. See More

Top Con

No reminders

You cannot set reminders to revisit a specific note or complete a task. See More

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Can export your data

The program enables exporting of notes as text documents. See More

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No way to import notes from anywhere

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Linux client available

Top Con

The search function doesn't see tags

If you search for 'foo' you won't find notes with tag foo. In that regard, tags are completely isolated from the search. See More

Top Pro

Wide range of great clients with great sync

Official native apps are available on popular platforms such as Android, iPhone, iPad, Kindle, OS X, Windows and Linux. Open-source clients extend this support even more widely to various other platforms, such as webOS and the BlackBerry PlayBook. These apps embody the core philosophy of Simplenote: minimalism and focus on the note taking. There are multiple unofficial clients (including the excellent Notational Velocity and NValt, a fork of the app with markdown support and other goodies.) See More

Top Con

No way to bulk-apply a tag

This is a typical workflow action in other apps: Do a search, multi-select notes among the matches, then apply or de-apply one or more tags to all these notes at once. There's no way to do this in Simplenote. The only bulk operations are Delete and Pin-to-top. See More

Top Pro

Excellent iOS app

Top Con

No notification when changes made on a shared note

Currently, there is no way to be alerted when a change is made by another contributor on a shared note. See More

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Collaborative features

Notes can be shared with others or worked on collaboratively. See More

Top Con

Save-to-disk feature is poor

The only way to download your data off Simplenote is via a "download zip" feature that unfortunately loses all the semantic structure of your data (tags, for instance). See More

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Excellent desktop client in the form of nvAlt

Top Con

No integrated social media sharing

The only way you can share notes with others is with a link you're given when you publish your note. There is no integrated social media sharing if you directly want to post your note to Twitter, Facebook, etc. See More

Top Con

Lack of color impacts usability

There are two themes available, the default theme and a dark theme. Both use only the single solid color (either white or black) for the background, so there is a lack of visual cues to separate what you're looking at. See More

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Platforms:Android / iOS / OSX / Windows / Linux

Collaborative:yes

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