Software · Office & notes
Lifeograph
Lifeograph is a cross-platform note-taking application that turns entries into structured data.
- Completely free
- Linux
- Open source
Overview
Lifeograph is a note-taking program, available on Linux.
Features described in its Flathub listing: data encryption, tags and folders.
Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.
Excerpts that establish this information
At a glance
Lifeograph is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.
Its licence (GPL-3.0) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.
Strengths
- Open source code
- Commercial use allowed
About
Lifeograph combines powerful features with a clean and thoughtfully designed interface. Your data stays on your device, and built-in encryption keeps privacy at the core. With WYSIWYG editing, your entries always appear in their final form. Integrated data extraction tools transform your journal entries into dynamic tables and charts. Main features of Lifeograph: Completely local workflow: all data is owned solely by the user Encrypted (with AES256) and unencrypted diaries Powerful and intuitive parametric tagging system Todo management system WYSIWYG rich text formatting (i.e. no separate edit & preview modes) Image thumbnails, tables, and charts in entries Extensibility via Python with support for editing and running scripts from within the program Text searching and replacing with Regex support Advanced filtering of entries Integrated map for travel notes and route planning Live tables that are created on the fly based on the user defined rules which can also be pasted into spread-sheet programs Live statistical charts that are created from the values in the tables Themes in text editor, including background images Favorite entries Spell checking Links between entries and to URIs Automatically created back-links to entries referring to the current entry Printing individual entries or whole diaries Automatically logs out when not used for some time (to protect encrypted diaries) Multiple automatic backups to prevent data loss
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
Sources and checks
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- Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
- Last technical check: 8 November 2026
- Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)
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