Checkvist vs Fractal Note

Checkvist is a keyboard-first outliner and online task manager for people who organize work and ideas in lists. Its lists support deep hierarchy, keyboard shortcuts, Markdown, code, tables, bulk operations, sorting and backlinks. Tasks can carry tags, due dates, notes, assignees, file attachments, priorities and progress counters. Lists can be shared privately or publicly with read-only or write access, password protection, expiration times and task assignment. Integrations include Zapier, Dropbox, Google Calendar sync, Jira, YouTrack, Slack, browser extensions and an Open API. Its mobile experience is a progressive web app for iOS and Android that syncs and works offline; the Web Clipper can collect tasks, bookmarks and notes from web pages and services including Gmail, Zendesk, Jira and GitHub. The free plan includes unlimited hierarchical lists and sharing, Markdown, due dates, tags, mobile offline use, browser extensions and Open API. PRO costs $3.90 per person per month, billed at $39 per year, and adds features such as task assignment, repeating tasks, Google Calendar synchronization, 2 GB of file storage and MCP access. A 14-day PRO trial is available without a credit card.

Fractal Note is a free, MIT-licensed note environment inside VS Code. It combines a WYSIWYG Markdown editor with outliner, database, mindmap, and file-manager views. Notes remain plain Markdown and JSON files organized through a virtual folder and file tree. Full-text search covers outlines, Markdown pages, and PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint attachments. A built-in viewer handles Office documents, PDFs, HTML, images, and text or code files. The Chrome extension clips web pages into an outliner or Markdown and writes them to disk through the File System Access API. Backlinks, collapse and expand controls, subtree scoping, filtering, and PDF or Markdown export support navigation and sharing. Bidirectional S3 sync and Amazon Translate require AWS credentials; HTTP(S) proxy connections for those services are not supported. Published AI skills support note searching, reading, and writing in named AI IDEs.