QuillPad
Minimal note-taking app with notebooks and tags
Quillpad is an open-source note-taking application focused on a clean, distraction-free writing experience with rich text formatting. It organizes notes into notebooks and supports tags, search, and offline use.
Key features
- Rich text notes
- Notebooks and tags
- Offline-first design
- Lightweight footprint
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-3.0 license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- Active community (1.4k GitHub stars)
- Written in Kotlin
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