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Linwood Butterfly
Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app·butterfly.linwood.dev
Open source
Butterfly is an open-source note-taking app that provides a unified drawing and note-taking experience across platforms. It offers an infinite canvas, support for pen, markdown, and rich text input, and the ability to import PDF, SVG, PNG, and camera images into notes. Users can structure notes with areas, waypoints, and multiple pages, and choose to store data locally or via WebDAV cloud storage.
What it's for
Taking freeform notes on an infinite canvasDrawing with a pen, markdown, or rich textImporting PDF, SVG, PNG files or camera photos into notesStructuring notes with areas and waypointsOrganizing notes across multiple pagesStoring notes locally or syncing via WebDAV cloud storageExporting and importing note data as files
Features 20
- Areas and waypoints for structuring notes
- Camera rotation support
- Cross-platform availability (Linux, Android, Windows, Web)
- Custom color palettes
- Custom fonts for labels
- Export and import notes as files
- File/folder/template management with grid or list view
- Flip elements horizontally and vertically
- Import PDF, SVG, PNG files into notes
- Infinite canvas for notes and drawing
- Light and Dark templates included
- Local data storage option
- Multiple pages support
- OneNote importer
- Pen, markdown, and rich text input support
- Search for files
- Take pictures from the camera into notes
- Tool presets and favorites
- WebDAV cloud storage option
- Xournal++ exporter
At a glance
open sourceself-hostable
TypeDesktop app
DeploymentHybrid
PlatformsWeb, Windows, Linux, Android
LanguagesEnglish, Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Oriya, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese (Traditional)
Integrations
WebDAVXournal++OneNote
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