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Awesome note-taking apps for hackers & pentesters !

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💀 Awesome note-taking apps for hackers !

A collection of awesome note-taking apps, plugins and techiques for pentest report generation, bug-bounty hunting & building a knowledge base tweet

Created by nil0x42 and contributors


Trilium Notes is a hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.
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✔️ Pros (for hackers)

  • supports relation maps
  • handles massive amount of notes
  • easily scriptable (js)
  • sync accross devices is possible (server mode)
  • notes can have multiple parents
  • main dev (@zadam) is very active & addresses issues quickly

❌ Cons (for hackers)

  • heavy app (electronjs)
  • no command-line interface

🔌 Useful plugins/extensions (for hackers)

  • zadam/trilium-web-clipper
    • web browser extension which allows user to clip text, screenshots, whole pages and short notes and save them directly to Trilium Notes.
  • nil0x42/singlefile2trilium
    • Save faithful copy of a web page in Trilium notes with SingleFile web extension
A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting
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✔️ Pros (for hackers)

  • beautiful rich-text
  • very used among pentesters

❌ Cons (for hackers)

  • monolythic hierarchical system
  • no note-tagging system

🔌 Useful plugins/extensions (for hackers)

A pentest reporting application making it simple and easy to write your findings and generate a customizable Docx report.
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✔️ Pros (for hackers)

  • Manage reusable Audit and Vulnerability Data
  • Multi-User reporting
  • Docx Report Generation
  • Docx Template customization

❌ Cons (for hackers)

  • not a knowledge base, focused on generating pentest reports
A cross-platform note-taking & target-tracking app for penetration testers built on ElectronJS.
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✔️ Pros (for hackers)

  • Focused on target-tracking (good for bug-bounty hunting)
  • importable hacking checklists

❌ Cons (for hackers)

  • heavy app (electronjs)
  • Last commit is from Jul 19, 2019

🔌 Useful plugins/extensions (for hackers)

Create modular and automated penetration testing frameworks utilizing Jupyter Notebooks.
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✔️ Pros (for hackers)

  • Focused on OSINT
  • in-notes executable scripts for result insertions
  • Automate / parse recon to excel

❌ Cons (for hackers)

  • Recent (small community)

🔌 Resources