* Note-taking made easy: Leanote incorporates a clean and intuitive interface, the `tinymce` rich-text editor and a dedicated *markdown* editor, making your writing/typing more efficient and enjoyable.
* Knowledge management: The flexible and versatile notebook-note-tagging system of Leanote makes it an ideal tool for knowledge management.
* Sharing: Share your knowledge, thoughts and experiences with friends via Leanote. Invite your friends to join your notepad in the cloud.
* Cooperating: Collaborate with colleagues to improve skills, fertilize ideas and brainstorm on the fly.
* Blogging: Publish your work and make Leanote your personal blog.
We have been using the popular note-taking software/service `Evernote` as our knowledge management tool on a daily basis. Benefited from and inspired by `Evernote`, we decided to create a brand-new tool that provides everything `Evernote` has to offer, plus a bunch of new features that `Evernote` failed to deliver, such as:
* A more powerful editor: `Evernote`'s editor lacks the functionalities of **document navigation**, **syntax based code rendering** (as a programmer, syntax highlighted code rendering is a necessity), **image resizing** and so forth.
* Everybody loves *markdown*, however `Evernote` simply wouldn't add it despite of years' of requests from users. So we will do the favor and bring a *markdown* enabled editor to you, guess what, it is also rendered in real-time!
* We love managing knowledge and thoughts as much as sharing them, so everybody has their own note account (`Evernote`, `Onenote`, `Google doc`, `Wiz note` etc.) and social media account (`Facebook`, `Wordpress`, blogs, etc.). But why can’t those two be one? Leanote makes this first step to bridge the private note-taking and public knowledge sharing seamlessly.
* A complete and all-platform (sorry Windows phone) covering software suite: that includes Leanote Web & Server (this repository), [Desktop app](https://github.com/leanote/desktop-app), [iOS](https://github.com/leanote/leanote-ios), [Android](https://github.com/leanote/leanote-android). And they are all open source!
The Leanote software suite contains: Leanote Web & Server (this repository), [Desktop app](https://github.com/leanote/desktop-app), [iOS](https://github.com/leanote/leanote-ios), [Android](https://github.com/leanote/leanote-android).
Feeling suspicious about how those note-taking companies treat your personal data? You can install Leanote on your server, and use Leanote App (Desktop, iOS, Android) to sync notes with your self-hosted server.
* [Mac and Linux](https://github.com/leanote/leanote/wiki/Leanote-source-installation-on-Mac-and-Linux-(En))
## 4. Documentation
Please see [wiki](https://github.com/leanote/leanote/wiki) for detailed instruction on how to install Leanote on various platforms, trouble shooting and configuration explanations.
If you are a developer yourself and feel like to build on top of Leanote, please refer to [How-to-develop-leanote](https://github.com/leanote/leanote/wiki/How-to-develop-leanote-%E5%A6%82%E4%BD%95%E5%BC%80%E5%8F%91leanote).
Like or dislike Leanote, please leave your comments and suggestions to help us improve it.
If you encounter any issue, we suggest you first do a search in the issues section to see whether a solution already exists, or open up a new one otherwise.
