Hey All, On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Jim Campbell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Charlie Kravetz > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:48:13 -0600 > >> Jim Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > Hi All, > >> > > >> > I'd like to recommend Gnote as a note-taking application for the > Xubuntu > >> > default installation. Gnote is an actively maintained C++ ongoing > fork > >> > of > >> > Tomboy. I know that Xfce has a notes plugin, but the functionality of > >> > Gnote > >> > is much better. > >> > > >> > Here's information on the Lucid package: > >> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/gnote > >> > Here's information on the software itself: > http://live.gnome.org/Gnote > >> > Commit info to show maintenance: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnote/ > >> > > >> > I am not necessarily recommending it for the default panel > installation, > >> > but > >> > just to be included. I've used it extensively from within Xubuntu > >> > Karmic > >> > and have been very impressed with how it works. It does not require > the > >> > xfapplets plugin to appear in the notification area. > >> > > >> > What do you think? > >> > > >> > Jim > >> > >> I personally install tomboy on all my systems. I tend to use it for a > >> lot of notes. Is it possible to port the tomboy notes to gnote? Do I > >> lose any functionality? > > > > Charlie, Tomboy notes can be imported into and opened in Gnote. I'll > provide > > further info about the other differences tonight. > > Sorry for adding to the confusion, but I wanted to point out that zim > is also a very nice note-taking application. > > Others can feel free to chime in with their thoughts, but here is a rundown on some of the different options for note applications: == Xfce4-notes-plugin: + After ~20 min of use uses 4mb of writeable memory + Can be set to sit in the panel + Easy to add notes and change between notes - Can't create notebooks (sets of notes around a topic) - Can't search notes - Can't link between notes == Gnote ~ After ~20 minutes of use, uses about 6.5 mb of writeable memory ~ Can sit in the notification area . . . not sure how it can be set to go there all the time, or if the user would need to launch it each time + Easy to add notes and change between notes + Can create notebooks, search between notes + Easy to link between notes, output to HTML, + Can import tomboy notes + several other plugins == Zim - Confusing start up UI - Uses 9.2mb of writeable memory on startup + Seems pretty powerful if you are familiar with how to use it. + The Sheep likes it +-x2 - I didn't really spend much time using it after the somewhat confusing UI at startup. This is a note taking application. It will not make users switch from Windows. But Gnote has pretty much all the features of Tomboy (just a few releases behind), and can provide good note-taking functionality with a minimal memory penalty compared to xfce4-notes-plugin. Your friend, Jim
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