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MindForger – thinking notebook and Markdown editor

MindForger is billed as a human mind inspired personal knowledge management tool.

This program helps you to organize, store, and access knowledge effectively. With MindForger, you can create and maintain a workspace of your thoughts, ideas, notes, and any other kind of information you want to store.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

  • Knowledge manager.
  • Markdown editor (which supports maths, diagrams, images, table of contents generator).
  • Outliner. An outliner is a feature used in word processing, note-taking, and organizational software to help users outline and structure their ideas. Outlining actions in MindForger allow users to create hierarchies or levels of information by, making it easier to organize and navigate through a Notebook.
  • Live preview – toggle live HTML preview of edited Markdown with shortcut or edit panel buttons.
  • Spell-check.
  • Markdown IDE (multi-document workspace, section refactoring, cloning, scopes and stencils).
  • Organizer (Eisenhower matrix, Kanban).
  • Knowledge graph navigator.
  • Knowledge autolinking.
  • Export (CSV with OHE for machine learning, HTML) and import (TWiki).
  • Think as you browse.
  • Think as you write.
  • Search functionality – quickly locate specific pieces of information within your knowledge workspace:
    • Find by name/tag/text/regexp.
    • Find similar sections (associations).
  • Wingman – a large language model (LLM) based MindForger’s tool which brings note-taking and knowledge management to a new level. With the wingman you can easily expand your notes and knowledge by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence. Whether you need to write an in-depth analysis, draft a blog post, prepare a plan, or simply generate ideas. It uses OpenAI as the LLM provider.
  • Tagging.
  • Emojis.
  • Checklists.
  • Recent sections.
  • External section editor.
  • Themes.
  • Internationalization support.
  • Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, and Windows.

Website: www.mindforger.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Martin Dvorak and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v2.0

MindForger in action
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MindForger is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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