CintaNotes vs Zim

CintaNotes automatically captures links from webpages and local documents, so you can quickly go back to the note's source.

Create notes by clipping text from any application that works with the system clipboard. Just select the text and press CTRL+F12.

The program rarely crashes and is extremely quick.

You can search your notes by titles, fields, text, links etc.

Notes in CintaNotes are organized into a crystal clear hierarchy tags. A hierarchy consists of 2 or more tags where the top tags is a parent tag and the one at the bottom is a child tag. This makes it easy to find your notes.

CintaNotes stores all attachments in the notebook file so you can remove the original file after it's been attached.

If you want to keep your notes private you can encrypt notebooks with sensitive data using AES-256 algorithm.

The app is really easy to use and the interface is extremely simple.

Notes are organized into sections or tabs. This is done to keep notes on the same topic separate while still having them in one notebook file.

CintaNotes can be synchronized with Simplenote or Dropbox. The first option makes you notes available on mobile devices via the Simplenote app and the second one allows you to share you notebooks with other people.

Notes can contain links to other notes, allowing you to reference important information when needed. This way the user can connect and reference many different pages in the app, keeping things clean and structured, unlike Evernote, which makes this a good Evernote alternative.

If/when the app is no longer developed (or if the user simply decides to no longer use the application or view/edit it on a non-supported platform), this can still be done with any plain-text editor.

Zim will automatically create a folder structure that fits your page hierarchy and adds/removes files such as images to/from appropriate folders.

Zim supports HTML, LaTeX, Pandoc Markdown, and RST. This allows ones documents to be easily used in a wide selection of other apps.

Windows, Linux, and BSD are supported with their own clients. This is nice for those that use multiple operating systems but still want to use the same app on each.