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Add to SafariWhen comparing Coggle vs Standard Notes, the Slant community recommends Standard Notes for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform note-taking app?” Standard Notes is ranked 5th while Coggle is ranked 56th. The most important reason people chose Standard Notes is:
Notes are encrypted and secured so only you can decrypt them.
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Pros
Pro Supports Markdown (their own variant)
Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax designed so that it can optionally be converted to HTML using a tool by the same name.
Pro Collaborative
Coggle allows inviting friends and colleagues to work collaboratively on notes and diagrams in real-time.
Pro Pretty diagrams
No effort to create beautiful diagrams.
Pro Supports LaTeX
LaTeX is a document preparation system and document markup language. It is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents.
Pro Allows easy color-coding of paths
Pro Versioning support
Enter history mode to view all changes to a diagram over time, and make a copy from that point.
Pro Optional Chrome store App
Pro Free
Pro Lots of export options
Exports to PDF, image, plaintext and .mm files.
Pro Encrypted
Notes are encrypted and secured so only you can decrypt them.
Pro Extensible
Editors, components, actions, and themes.
Pro Open-source
Pro Simple
Faster and lighter than most notes apps.
Pro Cross-platform
Available on Web, Mac, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux.
Pro Themes
Cons
Con Tree relations only; no non-parent links
Coggle's model allows a node to have multiple children, but only one parent, and no other connections of any sort.
Con Unconventional note taking style
Coggle is a mind mapping application, not a traditional text based note storage platform.
Con Formatting enabled only as extension for money
