On Oct 6, 2009, at 5:46 AM, Matt Graham wrote:

From: Josef Lowder <[email protected]>
Is there a digital sticky notes utility for Linux?

Ideally, it should allow quickly typing a short note on the command
line to be displayed as a *very small* note (about 2" wide by 1" tall)
in a pre-defined spot on one of the multiple desktop/workspaces ...
with no title, no menu, no icons, no border, and no other clutter?

name=`dcop knotes KNotesIface newNote "title" "new note contents"`
dcop knotes KNotesIface resize $name WIDTH HEIGHT
dcop knotes KNotesIface showNote $name
(moving it to a specific virtual desktop probably requires using
wmctrl, but that's pretty easy.)

...however, there will be a title bar on that, and it's sort of
KDE-specific.  There's a *lot* you can do with dcop.  Finding a
"notes" program that lacks a title bar will be the hardest part
of this question, I think.

I like Tomboy for this kind of thing. They look like OSX Stickies, but add a taskbar menu which lets you see all your notes quickly. It supports wiki-like inter-note linking. I'm not sure Tomboy supports the 'enter a note on the command-line' part, but you might be able to bash-script your way to happiness using Tomboy as a foundation.

http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/
The NoteDirectoryWatcher plugin might be useful : http://automorphic.blogspot.com/2009/05/tomboy-0150-development-release-brings.html .

alex

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