The perfect notes app

[jerrrys]

Ok, before someone jumps me; just maybe its not perfect for you. But if Im going to spam the forum, just as well do it right. :D

QuickFox Notes

Its sooo simple; uses zero resources; fast; all notes in one window in multiple tabs; either a pop up window or fixed at a click of the mouse; bla,bla,bla.

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[Rory_Pond]

My favorite notes app is a word processing application.

I create a table that is 2x2. One side is "Explanatory Notes" and the other is "Critical Commentary". Then in the bottom half, I use bullets to do my notes. :popcorn:

[TheNessus]

I never get the point of "notes" applications.

If I use any, after writing a note I forget I ever made a note and then rediscover it months later. It's probably the same reason I keep buying a new journal each new academic year and then discover that i filled a date in it just once, six months later.

Now that I have a smartphone a note app does come in handy, it's a good substitute for both a journal or a note app on a computer, or when I don't have a pen on me, since the phone is always, always with me. But even then, I don't keep anything with dates on it, just a few lines of information that needs to be written down, and later it is processed into something, and note may be deleted.

[pr3zident]

My favorite notes app is a word processing application.

I create a table that is 2x2. One side is "Explanatory Notes" and the other is "Critical Commentary". Then in the bottom half, I use bullets to do my notes. :popcorn:

what word processing app is that

[BrokenKingpin]

I use Zim notes.

[koleoptero]

i use zim notes.

+1

[Copper Bezel]

I've just used Kate and gedit. Having a browser-based note-taking app has advantages in integration with the browser and disadvantages when the browser isn't involved, but the really important thing for me is to keep everything organised in one place, so a file manager and text editor provides that. The lack of any ready searchability is, of course, a disadvantage.

[Simian Man]

I just email myself notes on gmail. That allows attachments, formatting, replies, labels, searching tons of storage space, plus I can access them anywhere without installing other programs. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.

[Primefalcon]

I use Tomboy, and syncronize it through Ubuntuone, which btw even works on Windows....... or Mac

http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Installing/Windows
http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/Installing/Mac

btw even Ubuntu one raw is on Windows https://one.ubuntu.com/downloads/windows/install/

The power of Open Source.... use it anywhere!

[Docaltmed]

I use Tomboy, and syncronize it through Ubuntuone, which btw even works on Windows....... or Mac



I've been wondering whether Canonical will continue that now that Tomboy has been given the boot. I don't see why they shouldn't, but you never know.

[Incense]

BasKet (http://basket.kde.org/). Been using it for years.

[jerrrys]

BasKet? You got me curious so I downloaded it from the software center.

For being KDE it doesn't dump on my gnome to bad at all (7M with dependencies) and unlike other kde packages installed in gnome; its fast after the first load.

Nice call "Incense" but not for me. Too many bells and whistles for my simple note taking.

[jerrrys]

I've just used Kate and gedit. Having a browser-based note-taking app has advantages in integration with the browser and disadvantages when the browser isn't involved, but the really important thing for me is to keep everything organised in one place, so a file manager and text editor provides that. The lack of any ready searchability is, of course, a disadvantage.

I find myself depending more and more on my browser.

[Copper Bezel]

Yeah, I just can't quite do that yet. I'm not always online, simply because not every place I ever go has reliable WiFi, and there are real reasons to want to keep data local. Chrome is still just about every other window I open - but not every window. = )

Despite its undeniable KDEness, I'm really liking BasKet. Thanks for the suggestion, Incense.

[jerrrys]

Yeah, I just can't quite do that yet. I'm not always online, simply because not every place I ever go has reliable WiFi, and there are real reasons to want to keep data local. Chrome is still just about every other window I open - but not every window. = )

Despite its undeniable KDEness, I'm really liking BasKet. Thanks for the suggestion, Incense.

Maybe Im more browser dependent than I realize. I use my browser off-line. (http://www.zotero.org/)

[pr3zident]

I use Tomboy, and syncronize it through Ubuntuone, which btw even works on Windows....... or Mac

+1 on tomboy you can also use it on your android fone ... Are you using ubuntu 11.10 ? Tomboy gave me a lot of problems in 11.10 ...

[kellemes]

keepnote (http://keepnote.org/)

[BrokenKingpin]

I just email myself notes on gmail. That allows attachments, formatting, replies, labels, searching tons of storage space, plus I can access them anywhere without installing other programs. Sometimes the simplest solution is the best.
I did this in the past, but it gives you no hierarchy, which is a must have for me.


keepnote (http://keepnote.org/)
This looks pretty good. How does it store the notes on the backend? The nice thing about Zim is that it is just all plain text files, so I can still open them on a machine that does not have it installed (which is nice, but not a must have). EDIT. It appears KeepNote stores the files in HTML, which should work for what I want.

[Rory_Pond]

what word processing app is that

LibreOffice Writer.

[Rodney9]

+++ Zim

[Dngrsone]

I have a Palm T|X which I faithfully use, but the ShadowPlan Outliner is no longer supported and the Linux Desktop for it is not very usable...

I would love to find an outliner that would work on both my laptop and the PDA, but I am thinking that is not to be.

Does anyone know if TreeSheets is any good?

[matthew.ball]

I'm somewhat surprised it hasn't been mentioned, kind of makes sense I suppose, but org-mode (http://orgmode.org/) is fantastic... The draw back is that it requires emacs, however 10 minutes on the tutorial and you should be comfortable enough to use org-mode.

- Plain text.
- Crazy linking between documents, directories, web-pages, and email.
- Tons of export abilities (LaTeX, HTML, ODT, DocBook, Freemind Mind Map, iCalendar).
- Organisation/Journal/Diary/Calendar capabilities.
- Excellent for a Getting Things Done™ (http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/gtd_workflow.html) management process.
- Render LaTeX symbols and display LaTeX equations in the document.
- And more!

I don't use emacs because I am a programmer (which I am not), I use emacs purely because of org-mode. I'm sure there are others who do the same. This little system is *amazing*.

Of course, the default settings for emacs are a bit odd, but if you were interested, I could happily tell/show you some saner set-ups.

[jerrrys]

I guess all the major players have come out, so its time to mark this solved.

[StephanG]

+1 For Basket.

The beauty of Basket is that you can just copy any file into it. Pictures, videos, sounds, Skyrim saved games, etc. And the beauty of it is, that it's actually copied into the baskets, instead of just using links. Which means those files stay permanently even if you move the originals around.

Theoretically, it would be possible to use it to back up episodes, all grouped by seasons, with drop down lists to the episodes in each season. Though I don't think it was built to handle that kind of data, and it still crashes occasionally, so I highly doubt if that would work.

[cap10devnull]

For me the most important feature in a note taking application is "sync"
*Opera has a built in note feature that also sync with your opera account, that means using Opera - but Opera is available on most of the platforms
*Option 2 Tomboy with Ubuntu One

[keithpeter]

For me the most important feature in a note taking application is "sync"
*Opera has a built in note feature that also sync with your opera account, that means using Opera - but Opera is available on most of the platforms
*Option 2 Tomboy with Ubuntu One

Option 3 could be a couple of lines in the .bashrc and a Dropbox account, or lftp to a directory on a Web server if you don't like using 'cloud' services.

This is what I use anyway when I do notes (I'm a bit lazy about note taking and tend to make them anywhere on bits of paper &c)

http://onethingwell.org/post/457674798/a-poor-mans-notational-velocity

Interesting thread. Org mode is just a bit too much for me.

[doublewitt]

ZIM is the best for me. The new version adds the ability to have a floating bookmark widget that helps to structure and organize your notes - great feature.

Zim...!