RedNotebook

Productivity · Office

Windows

Desktop journal and diary (GPL) with calendar navigation, tags, templates, spell check and export to plain text, HTML, LaTeX or PDF. Data stored in plain-text files. Actively released (2.43, Oct 2026).

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The promise

✓ No ads
✓ No purchases
✓ No subscriptions
✓ No trials
✓ No nagging
✓ No surprise bundles

Transparency

✓ Open source

Something wrong?

Reports go to a human review queue. No timeline promised — this is a small pilot, but every report gets read.