| Name
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License
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Platforms
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Tabbed sections
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Synchronizing
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PDF annotate, save
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Whiteboarding
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Keyboard text entry
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Write notes via pen-ink
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Handwriting Recognition
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Printing
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Formats
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Remarks
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| A.nnotate
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Free or paid
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Web-based
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?
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?
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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?
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?
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Yes
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PDF, .doc, .docx, images, web pages
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Mostly oriented to including comments in PDF and Microsoft Word documents.
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| AllMyNotes Organizer
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Free or paid
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Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
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?
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?
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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Proprietary, encrypted. Supports import from plain text, RTF, images. Exports to plain text, html, rtf.
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Access restriction by password, alarms, tasks, icons, rich text, file attachments, outlining, portable, skins, multilingual, autobackup, capture text via tray icon, spell checker, auto-backups (history).
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| BasKet Note Pads
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GPL
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Linux
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No
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No
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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No
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Rich text (export as HTML)
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Features adding, managing notes by category, importing text files, images, sounds, autosave.
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| CintaNotes
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freeware
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Windows
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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export to Unicode text or XML
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Tagging and searching for tags
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| DéjàClick
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Proprietary
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Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows
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?
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?
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No
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No
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Yes
|
?
|
?
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Yes
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XML
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Features ability to annotate live web pages via DéjàNotes and share scripts. Notes may include rich text or HTML and can be printed and saved as a normal web page via the Firefox browser.
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| org-mode
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GPL
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Linux, Mac OS X, Unix, Windows
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Yes
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Yes, third party programs for Android and Iphone, other via version control
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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No
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Yes
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LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, Taskjuggler, PDF, Freemind, XOXO, iCalendar
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org-mode is a major mode of Emacs, fully customisable, use only plain-text, includes ToDos, spreadsheet, deadlines, encryption, reminders, agenda, calendar and many more
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| Evernote
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Freemium
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Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7, Palm Pre and web application
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Maybe. No support for ink notes in Mac desktop version; can't mix ink with text
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Yes
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Yes
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Notes stored as XML. Both Free and Paid version allows notes in any file type.
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| Gnote
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GPL 3
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Linux
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No
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Yes
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Yes, print to PDF
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No
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Yes
|
?
|
?
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Yes
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NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF
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Port of Tomboy to C++, wiki-style linked notes
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| Google Notebook
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web service
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Web-based
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No
|
?
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No
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No
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Yes
|
?
|
?
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Yes
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Web-based; export to ODF, Microsoft Word, PDF etc. via Google Docs
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no longer maintained
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| Jarnal
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GPL
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Any Java enabled platform: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
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No
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Yes, various client/server options[1]
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes, but no pressure sensitivity
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?
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Yes
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ad-hoc (zip compatible archive containing an SVG per page, a config file, optional background PDFs/images). Can export to txt, html, jpg, pdf.
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Requires Java
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| Windows Journal
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Proprietary
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Windows XP Tablet PC edition, Windows Vista, Windows 7
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No
|
?
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No
|
?
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Yes
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Yes
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handwritten notes are searchable
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Yes
|
Proprietary
|
|
| Memonic
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Freemium
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Android, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile web application
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
|
?
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Yes
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Notes stored as XML. Can attach any filetype.
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Integrates into a number of different platforms.
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| Microsoft OneNote
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Proprietary
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iOS (iPad, iPhone), Windows XP/Vista/7/Mobile/Phone 7, web, mobile web
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Yes
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Yes
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OneNote 2010 and OneNote 2007 Service Pack 2 and beyond have it built in. A Save As PDF add-in is available for earlier versions of OneNote 2007.[2]
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Yes, Office OneNote version
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Proprietary
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Supports image search, audio and video-recording, screen clipping, importing from Web pages, and drawing; import from any Windows application by means of a simulated printer. Does not support regular expression searching. Good integration with other applications from vendor's Office suite. Tabbed interface provides good features for organizing and re-organizing pages. When used with Tablet PC ink, can search ink for text across all notes or a subset.
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| MyNotex
|
GPL
|
Linux
|
?
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Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Sqlite based, zipped attachments, export to HTML
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Features text formatting, file attachments, tagging, searching, notes management by subject, encryption with AES algorithm, text files and OpenOffice.org documents import. Multilingual.
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| Circus Ponies NoteBook
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Proprietary
|
Mac OS X
|
?
|
?
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Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
?
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Yes
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Proprietary, export: html, opml, rtf, txt, doc, pdf
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Features adding, managing note entries, outlining, tabs, tagging, automatic indexing, audio recording, screen clipping, importing files (text, audio, video), link or embed files, etc.
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| NoteScribe
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Proprietary
|
Windows
|
?
|
?
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No
|
No
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
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Yes
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save as .NSE (NoteScribe), export to .rtf
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supports image, video, text, PDF, spreadsheet attachments, generate citations and bibliographies
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| Okular
|
GPL
|
Linux, Unix
|
?
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No
|
Yes. Notes saved in separate file
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
PDF, PS, TIFF, CHM, DjVu, DVI, XPS, ODF, various others
|
Can export PDF + notes, for sending to other Okular users
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| PDF Studio
|
Proprietary
|
Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, web-based
|
?
|
?
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
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Yes
|
PDF
|
Review and markup PDF documents.
|
| Personal Knowbase
|
Proprietary
|
Windows
|
?
|
?
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
|
Yes
|
export to RTF, HTML, TXT, CSV
|
Supports tags, hypertext, attachments, passwords. Portable.
|
| TiddlyWiki
|
BSD
|
cross-platform (browser, web-based)
|
Yes, via plugin
|
Yes
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Yes, via plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
|
Yes
|
HTML
|
extensible via plugins and user scripts
|
| Tomboy
|
LGPL
|
cross-platform
|
?
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
?
|
?
|
Yes
|
NoteXmlFormat, HTML, PDF, wiki-formats
|
Reminders, to do-lists, formulae in LaTeX
|
| Xournal
|
GPL
|
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
|
No
|
?
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes, with pressure sensitivity
|
No
|
Yes
|
XML, export to PDF
|
Fast boot, smooth curves
|
| Name
|
License
|
Platforms
|
Tabbed sections
|
Synchronizing
|
PDF annotate, save
|
Whiteboarding
|
Keyboard text entry
|
Write notes via pen-ink
|
Handwriting Recognition
|
Printing
|
Formats
|
Remarks
|
