warreno
August 15th, 2009, 09:58 AM
Howdy, all. Very recent user of Ubuntu — I installed it earlier this week on my Acer Aspire One because I got tired of waiting 30 seconds or more for an HTML page to render in Firefox or Chrome on the factory install of XP — and this is already my third post on the subject of Ubuntu in general. (For the record the last Linux I did was Red Hat about ten years ago. Prior to that, it was Slackware, and yes, I did install Xwindows as well. From floppy disks. Getting startx to work was a three-day-long process that involved a lot of profanity and no little celebration when I finally got a GUI.)
My desktop machine at home is a Mac Mini running OSX.5.8. At work it's a G5 tower (PPC dual core; I missed the Intel chipset by about three months) running OSX.4.11 (because 5.x hoses Adobe CS2 (http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2007/12/04/osx-leopard-and-adobe-cs2-bad-juju/), which is a staple of my work life, and which for financial reasons we haven't upgraded yet).
I've been a writer for as long as I've been a reader, almost; and on Mac I use an application called DevonNote to do my composing:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonnote/index.html
I like it because it's very flexible, allows me to organize documents (chapters) in any order I want in its editing interface, and permits very good rich text editing with export to multiple formats.
Tomboy does something similar, but not quite the same. What I'm wondering is whether anyone knows of an Ubuntu app that behaves a bit more like DevonNote, or if Tomboy is the closest match.
Thanks for any suggestions, and best to all.
My desktop machine at home is a Mac Mini running OSX.5.8. At work it's a G5 tower (PPC dual core; I missed the Intel chipset by about three months) running OSX.4.11 (because 5.x hoses Adobe CS2 (http://indigestible.nightwares.com/2007/12/04/osx-leopard-and-adobe-cs2-bad-juju/), which is a staple of my work life, and which for financial reasons we haven't upgraded yet).
I've been a writer for as long as I've been a reader, almost; and on Mac I use an application called DevonNote to do my composing:
http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonnote/index.html
I like it because it's very flexible, allows me to organize documents (chapters) in any order I want in its editing interface, and permits very good rich text editing with export to multiple formats.
Tomboy does something similar, but not quite the same. What I'm wondering is whether anyone knows of an Ubuntu app that behaves a bit more like DevonNote, or if Tomboy is the closest match.
Thanks for any suggestions, and best to all.