Applications to help you take and organize notes on your computer are available dime-a-dozen. Linux purists will, ofcourse, give their vote to text editors such as Vim or Emacs but there are also applications such as Tomboy and BasKet available for the non-geeky users that make taking and organizing notes on Linux a breeze.
Ofcourse, taking things a bit further, using a wiki as a note taking tool sounds like a great idea and depending on your usage, might even prove to be a better solution than the general purpose note taking applications that we’ve mentioned above.
Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor which aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop. The individual pages are all saves in plain text so they can still be edited using any text editor that you fancy or if you’re not the text editor types, the Zim GUI is great for a beginner to get used to.
Zim, just like a web based wiki, handles various types of markups, such as bold, italics, lists etc and makes it really easy to link your notes together. And of course it has an autosave feature so you don’t need to worry about losing any of your data.
According to the developers Zim is intended to be used to keep track of TODO lists or serve as a personal scratch book. In my testing, however, I’ve not found any reason to believe that Zim can’t be used as a replacement for a regular note taking application.
What note taking applications do you guys use on Linux ? Let me know in the comments and I’ll make sure I check them out.
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I use (and develop) a Linux note taking application called Luminotes. It has some similarities to Zim, with WYSIWYG note editing. But Luminotes also has a focus on wiki-like linking between notes, so you can make connections between your ideas. Check it out at http://luminotes.com/
@Dan: Thanks for letting me know of luminotes. It looks promising. I’ll definitely check it out.