When comparing Litewrite vs Tomboy, the Slant community recommends Tomboy for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform note-taking app?” Tomboy is ranked 14th while Litewrite is ranked 48th. The most important reason people chose Tomboy is:
All the components are free, opensource, and allows self-hosting the sync server.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Remote storage
Supports the remoteStorage protocol for privacy-aware personal data storage.
Pro Free and Open Source Software
Pro Distraction free
No markup.
Pro Completely browser based
Pro Very minimalistic
Its without any frills and quite unadorned and yet rather functional. For those who like it plain and simple and open source and non-corporate this is rather good.
Pro Free and open source
All the components are free, opensource, and allows self-hosting the sync server.
Pro Can be extended with add-ins
If Tomboy doesn't have the features you want out of the box, you may be able to find them here as a plug in.