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CLUSTER END-ENCRYPTS-NOTE · 7 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-12-07

Encrypted private note-taking apps

Cluster of 7 note-taking applications that emphasize strong encryption, often end-to-end or self-hosted, to keep personal notes private. The dated history, from 5 members with creation dates, begins with one entry in June 2005, skips to December 2020, then appears three times in 2026 (February, May, June), indicating a pattern of recent activity. The highest activity signal among members is 0 stars, shared by librenotes-bin, clin-rs-bin, and standardnotes.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUN 2005: 1DEC 2020: 1FEB 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 2
JUN 2005AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 indie · 5 open source

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01librenotes-bin0★1 moliveopen sourceSelf-hosted note-taking application that encrypts notes end-to-end so users retain full privacy and control over their data.
  2. 02clin-rs-bin0★26 daysliveopen sourceTerminal note-taking application that encrypts notes and lets users write and store personal notes via command line.
  3. 03standardnotes0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceNote-taking application that encrypts notes and files end-to-end so users can store private thoughts and documents securely.
  4. 04standardnotes-bin0★1 molivehand-codedopen sourceNote-taking application that encrypts notes end-to-end and is distributed as free open-source software for private storage.
  5. 05gringotts0★11 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop application that stores and encrypts personal notes for secure record keeping on UNIX-like systems.
  6. 06PrivateNotes0★unknownliveindieNote-taking application that encrypts entries using strong cryptography to keep personal ideas and information private and secure.
  7. 07NoteLocker0★unknownliveai-builthobbyWeb app that lets users write and securely store private notes behind a lock.

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