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My new favorite note-taking app for MacOS and Linux checks this crucial box - and it's free

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Trilum is a note-taking app for Linux and MacOS.

This note-taking apps has tons of features, including local sync.

Trillium is free to install and use.

Note-taking apps are a dime a dozen. Go to your device's app store and you'll find myriad apps for this purpose; some of them are good and some of them are not.

Many note-taking apps check almost every box, but there's one feature I want that only a select few offer: local sync.

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Most note-taking apps offer remote sync by way of cloud or third-party storage. Although I'm not taking notes of a terribly sensitive nature, I do have some notes that I'd rather a third party not have access to. For example, I have an important project I launched a few months ago, and I keep several notes (along with a Kanban board) about that project to keep me moving forward.

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