Best private alternative to Evernote that won't read, scan, the contents of your notes? That will respect your privacy
This is a very good question. There are some open-source note-takers in Linux, but I haven't tried them. I like OneNote BUT I run this in an isolated virtual machine. I'm actually thinking of writing my own office suite plus encryption based on the Telerik WPF UI controls but with built-in encryption for every document, so that plaintext is never on the disk.