![]() ![]() Folders give an additional structural element to your notebook. In addition to pages, KeepNote also lets you create folders that contain sub-trees of pages. There are a greater number of built-in icons to choose from, to associate with nodes. You can open multiple tabs, with each tab exposing different sub-sections of the notebook tree. ![]() The user interface does not cease to amaze. An Evolution-like interface lets you see the notebook tree in the left pane, with the right pane split horizontally, allowing you to view notes like email. It is a shade better than the previous two tools. KeepNoteĪ gem of an outliner, this one does not give you much to complain about. However, this version is available under a BSD licence, so people have the freedom to fork the project if they’d like to modify it. The free/open source version seems to have been abandoned by the author in favour of the Pro version, though it is still available in the Ubuntu repository. There is a paid-for “Pro” version of NoteCase available, which has more features. Exporting to HTML creates a single huge file for the entire notebook, which will not suit certain kinds of content. A parent node is also a page, and you can make it look like a ‘Table of Contents’ by creating hyperlinks to the child pages. Hyperlinking across pages is possible just select the text for your hyperlink, and use the link wizard on the tool bar. You can then drill down another level for multiple project entries in your journal. To use NoteCase as a journal, all you have to do is use the date/time string (a T gets you the date string in five formats) to name a child node. If you visit “Node Properties” (click the secondary mouse button on the node), you can add tags that will help you with searching the notebook, or associate an icon with a particular node. You will miss the bulleted list format option, though. Wiki syntax does not work, but you can use the toolbar to format your text. To get a feel of what a fully populated notebook looks like, check out the Help section, which opens up a Help notebook. From this point, you can type into the right pane (corresponding to the active node), or keep inserting child nodes, delineating the structure of your notebook. The first node is the root node for your notebook. Just do an “Insert Node”, or hit the key to get started. Of course, you can always create multiple journals as a trivial solution. Multiple entries (say, for different projects), under different exclusive categories for a particular date, are not possible within the same journal. It is possible to export journal entries to HTML, filtered by categories and a date range. Once you have created an entry, at the right-most pane, use the “New Entry” button to assign a category and a sub-category to your journal entry. With weekday templates, you can automatically log those pre-scheduled activities like the staff meeting on Mondays, and the design review meeting on Thursdays. For instance, the journal template for Friday is 5.txt. A neat feature is templates based on weekdays. Wiki syntax is supported: _underline_, **bold**, and =Title = work as expected. Make sure you are in edit mode - the Edit/Preview button toggles this. To create an entry, just click on a date and start typing. Actually, the right-most pane is a distraction, except when you create a new journal entry. The left top is the calendar, and the left bottom is a search pane with a weighted keyword cloud, and a search-as-you-type text entry pane. ![]() RedNoteBook is feature-rich, and simple to use, even if it has a slightly odd way of assigning categories and tags to journal entries.įrom the screenshot in Figure 1, you will note the three vertical panes. There aren’t very many pure journal applications in Linux at least, I could not find any that stand out. What these tools (also called “outliners”) bring you are additional facilities that paper and pencil just cannot match. ![]() You may have discovered the convenience of a wiki format for taking notes. You may have written datelined journals, or notes in folders. The tools we are going to discuss mimic typical note-taking styles that you are already aware of. ![]()
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