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If you find CherryTree isn’t well-suited to your workflow, there are plenty of other great alternativ­es. One such example is the Zim desktop wiki, which provides a cleaner and more intuitive interface but with slightly less functional­ity. Zim also saves your notes in a folder structure rather than a single .ctb file, which makes it much easier to publish your notes on a web server for other people to be able to view without needing extra software. Just like CherryTree, you should find Zim easy to install directly from your package manager.

Another great example is Turtl, which advertises itself as a free, fully open source, secure and private rival to the much-better-known

Evernote. Unlike CherryTree this applicatio­n will sync your notes across devices using a symmetric encryption key that only you have access to. Turtl also has client apps for Windows, Mac, Linux and Android for the service it hosts, with an iPhone app under active developmen­t as we went to press. You can download the Turtl client from https://turtlapp.com.

SimpleNote is a similar project, although it originally started out as an iPhone app that has since grown into a service with working clients across all the major desktop and mobile platforms. Annoyingly, there’s no RPM package, so Fedora and OpenSUSE users will need to build from source or install the provided Debian package with alien. However, it’s still worth pulling down from https://simplenote.com to tinker with because of its minimalist-style interface, excellent search tools and markdown support.

 ??  ?? Zim desktop wiki provides a cut-down alternativ­e to CherryTree that’s very straightfo­rward to publish on shared drives and web servers.
Zim desktop wiki provides a cut-down alternativ­e to CherryTree that’s very straightfo­rward to publish on shared drives and web servers.

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