Notemeister
October 16, 2008 at 3:04 pm
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...I have decided that I will take over development of the Notemeister project. In the absence of any contact from the original author, and in note of the fact that the code is licenced under GPLv2, I have created a fork of the project that can be found at http://github.com/robotii/notemeister/tree/master. No changes have been made to the original code as yet, although one thing I’m considering is to change the name of the project.
Future enhancements are likely to include OPML support for exporting and importing, and a general tidy up and freshening of the UI. I would appreciate any ideas or comments on what to do with the project, as there are sure to be some ideas that I haven’t yet thought of.
The original Sourceforge page of the project is here if anyone wants to look and see what the project is all about. I have included the project description below.
Notemeister is a small, simple note organizer made for the GNOME2 desktop. It’s features include:
- Notes stored in a tree view and structure
- Drag and drop support for reordering notes
- Simple text formatting by highlighted bounds
- Auto-save feature
- Import/Export to/from text files
- Link notes to a file on disk
Currently, dependancies include:
- Python 2.3.3
- PyGTK >= 2.3.92 (unstable 2.4)
- PyOrbit 2.0.0
- GNOME-Python 2.0.2
Currently I am unable to maintain the sourceforge page for the project, so this is a code only fork.
Ideas and suggestions can be posted below until I get a better solution in place.
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Tomboy notes
October 3, 2008 at 5:32 pm
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Currently I am using a tool called Tomboy to store notes and other information. Tomboy allows you to store notes with wiki linking and formatting. There are also plugins that allow you to add sketches to notes, set reminders and add the current time and date to a note.
It is also possible to export notes in various different formats and, thanks to the d-bus interface, possible to interact with Tomboy programmatically. In short Tomboy is an excellent tool for Linux users — and hopefully soon for windows users.
About Tomboy
Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day.
Have you ever felt the frustration at not being able to locate a website you wanted to check out, or find an email you found interesting, or remember an idea about the direction of the political landscape in post-industrial Australia? Or are you one of those desperate souls with home-made, buggy, or not-quite-perfect notes systems?
Time for Tomboy. We bet you’ll be surprised at how well a little application can make life less cluttered and run more smoothly.
Tomboy is currently in pre-release development, but you can still try it out. Tomboy is written in C# and utilizes the Mono runtime and Gtk#. Automatic spell-checking is provided by GtkSpell.
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Getting to comment on other people’s giraffes, like blog posts
June 11, 2007 at 9:30 pm
(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Here are my top three tips for getting people to comment on your site. If you think of any others I would be pleased to hear them, and possibly even take your comment on board. Anyway, here they are, even though you must have heard them a million times before, or rather read them. If you can improve on my meager list, I would urge you to do so.
- Make it easy for people to post. No one wants to jump through hoops to write a quick comment.
- Respond to comments in a personal way. Make your readers feel like they’re part of a community.
- Include YOU in your posts so people feel they are reading a real person, which you are… right?
He he, used one of them already. Let me know what you think of the comments system. Anything really, I would like to hear it.
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Another week
February 9, 2007 at 9:57 pm
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Hopefully during the next week I should have time to work on several open source projects for a few days. Trouble is… where is the best place to begin? There are so many good projects out there, covering a wide variety of applications, tools and other things, that it is hard to know where to contribute to make a difference.
What I would be interested in, however, is something that makes organising (yes, this is British English after all 
information, and retrieving it easier. Unfortunately, there are a number of projects out there, that whilst good, have no intention of moving into the arena I’m interested in. Several of these applications are Tomboy, Labyrinth to name two in particular. Where I would like to see the two of these projects going is in the direction that neither seems to be taking, namely that of allowing information to be structured in a way that mirrors the brain. I would like to see Tomboy develop a viewing layer on top of the xml data that allows data to be viewed in more than one way, perhaps through the use of xslt and plugins designed to be used with this. It would need two way transformation, as well as the ability to edit in any form. I think this is a pretty tall order. However, the program is not currently structured to allow this.
The above is not a criticism as such of Tomboy, for it is far far better than any desktop tool I’ve seen before, but rather an indication of the direction I’d like to see it take. Unfortunately, if you look at the website, it seems to be merely replicating the functionality of a wiki on the desktop, albeit very elegantly. Having said the above, it is a tool I use daily, and is miles ahead of any windows program that attempts to do a similar job.
Labyrinth, which someone has mentioned as a possible link in to tomboy is again another very useful tool, although not yet as mature as Tomboy. When I say mature I mean its practicality in using the tool everyday is not quite as good as Tomboy, although it is still a pretty useful thing.
I particularly like the idea of a labyrinth style display onto files and folders, showing how they are related in a non-hierarchical manner, such as libraries used by this program, source files for it, and header files and so forth.
I hope to write sometime about Beagle, which is a tool I love and hate at the same time. This relationship will become more clear when I have formulated the post.
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