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neat, but why?

neat, but why?

Posted Aug 20, 2006 7:09 UTC (Sun) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
Parent article: Take notes with Tomboy (Linux.com)

why not just open note.txt in your editor of choice?


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doesn't scale

Posted Aug 20, 2006 9:52 UTC (Sun) by gvy (guest, #11981) [Link]

One might consider some of the notes more important; they might have metadata (like due date or creation date) and one might benefit from being able to e.g. sort by them (it's not exactly robust with just a text editor).

There are other things which sometimes make good old ~/TODO just tired.

neat, but why?

Posted Aug 20, 2006 19:22 UTC (Sun) by Tobu (guest, #24111) [Link]

The main benefit is that it's a little wiki. You just linkify a phrase, or use a WikiWord, and you have created a new note. You can then expand and organise your notes, mindmap-style.

You also get good desktop integration in the form of an applet, an recent notes, and especially search.

Recent projects aim at making tomboy more networked:

  • exposing notes to the outside - networked tomboy,
  • synchronising them with mail or files - conduit,
  • another synchronization project - blog
With these, tomboy will become still more of a wiki.

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