Editing Software Alternatives (section)

=== GUI-based ===
These are more alternatives of Onenote/Evernote since they have a GUI:
* Spiral (https://mitchellaugustin.com/spiral/) - VERY similar to OneNote with notebooks/sections/pages infinite canvas and floating text boxes. WYSIWYG editor (for people who don't want to edit markdown). Does not have drawing but this could be used with Xournalpp and conversion to images. Does not have file attachments though, so use a separate folder for that. Good text formatting features (except for fonts). A native app (not web app), don't have to figure out self-hosting, and notebooks are stored in HTML.
* Xournalpp (https://github.com/xournalpp/xournalpp) (rewrite of Xournal in C++. Text features aren't the best. But it is very active. Not quite there yet in terms of features to OneNote) siliconninja personally recommends this one the most and uses it the most often.
* μPad (https://github.com/MicroPad/Web) (basically a clone of Onenote's note organization, but with no drawing color (yet). Not WYSIWYG in terms of text. EDIT 2/27/19: rich text was added! Thanks to the μPad developers! Paid sync service - probably can self-host, or just use the webapp offline and sync note data with your own cloud storage.) siliconninja personally recommends this one.
* CherryTree (https://github.com/giuspen/cherrytree) (recently updated to support Python 3! has hierarchy, like a binder.)
* Trilium (https://github.com/zadam/trilium) (Very active project. has a different type of way to organize your notes. Need your own server to sync. Uses the Electron library - you might not like this.) siliconninja sort of recommends this one - the GUI functionality (bold text, etc) is really hidden, but the note organization features such as relation maps and JavaScript scripting are neat and something worth your consideration.
* Joplin (https://github.com/laurent22/joplin) (Active project. iOS app has issues on newer iPhones with showing text at the bottom. Markdown, desktop application annoying to use, WYSIWYG for desktop in beta. Syncs with Nextcloud/Owncloud/WebDAV servers. Has mobile applications (yay!) Uses the Electron library - you might not like this.)
* Bakoma-TeX (http://bakoma-tex.com/) (If you like LaTeX for note-taking, this includes a WYSIWYG editor. Probably no WYSIWYG drawing capabilities. Handwritten math only on Windows because it uses its math writing input thingy. Has Linux version. Bakoma-TeX is somewhat expensive.)
* Nixnote 2 (http://nixnote.org/NixNote-Home/) lets you work with Evernote, and offline. Simple WYSIWYG editor and tagging. Has not been updated since late 2017.
* LyX (https://www.lyx.org/) (If you like LaTeX for note-taking, this includes a WYSIWYM editor, which is not exactly WYSIWYG. siliconninja personally noticed that its line spacing functionality doesn't always work well and you might need to change the LaTeX "preamble" by hand for all files to solve this issue.)
* Turtl (https://github.com/turtl) (Recently had a big update. More like sticky notes with limited text input capabilities. Has mobile applications (yay!) Uses the Electron library - you might not like this.)
* Xournal (http://xournal.sourceforge.net/) (for handwriting/text anywhere on page) (Old, no longer being maintained (probably))