![]() ![]() Tip: Zim’s performance can really be improved performance by turning off spelling on large notes.The easiest way to do this is to go into the folder where the notes are and create their own folders for them. Tip: If you have a lot of topics like me, a general topic can be made and then others dropped on it.This was easy to fix by right clicking a folder and in “Open With” reselecting Nautilus. Zim installation did unfortunatly take over the file:/// mime type so all folders I tried to open did so through vim. The entire process took about 15 minutes so I shouldn’t gripe, the script did pretty good including indenting, bulleted lists, formatting and all links. So I had to manually grep through my 1dlasdfaXXXYYY.notes and discover the offending ones independently and move them. The best thing about Zim is there turned out to be a conversion script for tomboy notes! Unfortunately the conversion script is a bit dated and would fail on some notes – it would convert them but the conversion process would stop. Zim felt pretty responsive – alot better than tomboy, but not close to Notecase. It has support for all types of formatting, linking to other notes and webpages, heirarchical notes views, and understands wiki formatting. Zim is written in Gtk2-Perl and proposes to me leaner on resources then tomboy. Labeled a notepad wiki is may be a bit more extravagant than I was looking for. Almost instant loads times and responsiveness its what I was looking for in a note taking app. Notecase is written in C++ and feels like it. ![]() Support for linking to other notes and to weblinks are a plus. ![]() The setup, though a bit eccentric, (notes are called nodes) is very nice. Notecase keeps track of notes in a seperate pane. Notecase support hierachical note taking, meaning notes can be nested within notes – a nice feature. Originally I was expecting something similiar to xpad but it has more features (though I feel overcompicatedly so). The only thing putting me off would be having to manually transfer and reformat all dozens and dozens of notes. I copied my largest notes onto an xpad window and it handled them without a problem. It does support multiple notes and it extremly lightweight. Basically it’s sticky notes with gtk support and ability for simple formating (Bold, Italic….). I began research if any alternates were available besides just using gedit. So my “OMG this is taking a dam week”, with Tomboy reached such a pitch I began just thinking of using gedit as my new notetaker. Seconds going by can mean the deterioration of an idea. For instance just copying the information on one note took minutes to do. The large notes have become almost impossible to edit on my iBook. I can wait 5 seconds when I click the tomboy icon just for the notes to show. The incredible number of links to other notes (I have a lot of them) creates a terrible amount of dependencies. Thats the way a note taking application needs to be. We all like apps that when we get an idea the pen and paper is right there. By reverting back 0.6.3 and mono-1.2.2.1 it is functional again the bad news it that it’s horribly unusable. Good news is, I finally got tomboy to work. On my MacBook it was a livesaver but since I ditched that rag, I’ve missed tomboy alot. Comparision of Notetaking Apps - From an earlier post I noted that tomboy (my favorite notetaking app) fails to run on my iBook. ![]()
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