Utilities

Excellent Utilities: Tusk – Evernote desktop software

Last Updated on December 24, 2022

Summary

Why do so many people use Evernote? It’s an excellent planner, organizer, and notebook. And for many it’s the bread and butter of day-in and day-out project management. And why does Tusk get our recommendation for what is an attractive open source client to a proprietary solution? Above all else, it really helps focus on what’s most important.

There’s some important functionality I’d like added. Among the top of the list are support for spell checking and a grammar assistant. These are on the developer’s roadmap. I’d also like better support for PDFs, such as the ability to view PDFs without downloading them, the ability to export all notes with a single action, and multiple tabs. But the software has the essentials that I need.

The software uses Electron and Node.js, so I wasn’t expecting the software to be particularly frugal with memory. ps_mem reports that with minimal use, tusk consumes over 610MB of RAM. This takes into account the RAM consumed by Electron. Certainly not lightweight software, but it’s usefulness more than compensates. Under Windows, memory usage appears lower, although I spent little time with the unsigned app in that operating system. But if you multi-boot between Linux and Windows, the cross-platform nature of the software is likely to be very important.

Website: github.com/klaussinani/tusk
Support:
Developer: Klaus Sinani and contributors
License: MIT License

Tusk is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Other Features
Page 4 – Summary


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deion granger
deion granger
2 years ago

Amazing Linux program I wrote this written the last year for my class project

Joe
Joe
2 years ago
Reply to  deion granger

I assume you are referring to a program you wrote rather than Tusk. Tusk’s first public release was back in August 2017. The project is written by Klaus Sinani, Mario Sinani and Athan Gkanos.

The project has seen almost no code commits in the past few years.