Gnote is a desktop note-taking application for GNOME that helps users capture information and organise related ideas. Notes can contain formatted text, lists and hyperlinks, with facilities for connecting individual notes into a navigable collection.
The application is particularly useful for maintaining information that changes over time, such as meeting records, research material, project notes and personal reference documents. Rather than requiring an elaborate filing structure, Gnote makes it possible to connect related information through links that behave much like those found in a wiki.
Notes can also be grouped into notebooks, providing another way to manage collections. Search facilities help locate information across notes, while formatting and spell-checking tools make longer documents easier to prepare and maintain.
Gnote originated as a port of Tomboy designed to provide similar functionality without a dependency on Mono. It has subsequently evolved with closer integration into the GNOME desktop. Additional functionality is available through plugins, including importing notes, exporting information and examining links between notes.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Create notes containing formatted text, lists and links.
- Connect related notes using wiki-style links.
- Organise notes into notebooks.
- Search note collections and highlight matching text.
- Format text using bold, italic, strikethrough and highlighting.
- Choose fonts and adjust text sizes.
- Create bulleted lists with automatic list formatting.
- Check spelling as notes are edited.
- Undo and redo editing operations.
- Print individual notes.
- Export notes as HTML documents.
- Use plugins for additional formatting, backlinks, note importing and document navigation.
- Synchronise notes between supported locations.
- Integrate with the GNOME desktop environment.
Website: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnote
Support:
Developer: Aurimas Černius
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Gnote is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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