Cherrytree for Windows, macOS, and Linux is a free hierarchical note-taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single XML or SQLite file.

Cherrytree v0.99.52 changelogs:

• moved encryption and backup to a separate thread to improve performance; implemented integrity verification of the document before encryption and backup rotation (#2148)
• code execution: added new tag to allow placing the code directly into the terminal rather than in a temporary file (#1772)
• assigned hard coded keyboard shortcut to change codebox properties ‘Ctrl’+'[‘ (#2138)
• fix import from gnote/tomboy (#2152, #1991, #1686)
• linux support path links starting with ~/ (#2149)
• fix paste from gnome-characters in fedora (#2094)
• using github.com instead of giuspen.net to retrieve the latest version released as some users have issues to access giuspen.net (#2162)
• added support for typescript syntax highlighting (#2161)
• updated languages Chinese Simplified, Dutch to 100% (still incomplete ar, el, fi, hi_IN, lt)

Cherrytree v0.99.52 features :

• rich text (foreground color, background color, bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, small, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, subscript, superscript, monospace)
• syntax highlighting supporting several programming languages
• images handling: insertion in the text, edit (resize/rotate), save as png file
• latex math equations rendering
• embedded files handling: insertion in the text, save to disk
• multi-level lists handling (bulleted, numbered, to-do and switch between them, multiline with shift+enter)
• simple tables handling (cells with plain text), cut/copy/paste row, import/export as csv file
• codeboxes handling: boxes of plain text (optionally with syntax highlighting) into rich text, import/export as text file
• execution of the code for code nodes and codeboxes; the terminal and the command per syntax highlighting is configurable in the preferences dialog
• alignment of text, images, tables and codeboxes (left/center/right/fill)
• hyperlinks associated to text and images (links to webpages, links to nodes/nodes + anchors, links to files, links to folders)
• spell check (using gspell)
• intra application copy/paste: supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
• cross application copy/paste (tested with libreoffice and gmail): supported single images, single codeboxes, single tables and a compound selection of rich text, images, codeboxes and tables
• copying a list of files from the file manager and pasting in cherrytree will create a list of links to files, images are recognized and inserted in the text
• print & save as pdf file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
• export to html of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
• export to plain text of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
• toc generation for a node / node and subnodes / the whole tree, based on headers h1, h2 and h3
• find a node, find in selected node, find in selected node and subnodes, find in all nodes
• replace in nodes names, replace in selected node, replace in selected node and subnodes, replace in all nodes
• iteration of the latest find, iteration of the latest replace, iteration of the latest applied text formatting
• import from html file, import from folder of html files
• import from plain text file, import from folder of plain text files
• import from basket, cherrytree, epim html, gnote, keepnote, keynote, knowit, mempad, notecase, rednotebook, tomboy, treepad lite, tuxcards, zim
• export to cherrytree file of a selection / node / node and subnodes / the whole tree
• password protection (using http://www.7-zip.org/) – NOTE: while a cherrytree password protected document is opened, an unprotected copy is extracted to a temporary folder of the filesystem; this copy is removed when you close cherrytree
• tree nodes drag and drop
• automatic link to web page if writing the URL
• automatic link to node if writing node name surrounded by [[node name]]

The author’s web link:https://www.giuspen.net/cherrytree/