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Note-taking Software for Unix?
donniejones18 asks: "I've been trying to find note-taking software for my university classes, work, etc. but all I can seem to discover is Windows-based software, such as OneNote or GoBinder. I would like to know what software Slashdot readers use for note-taking in Linux? If not, would anyone be interested in working together on this project? Ideally the software would support the insertion of PDFs, images, and other documents for handwritten annotation from a tablet PC, PDA or by mouse from a PC."
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/21/21182
Use openoffice so you can add pictures, spreadsheets and crap as well as being able to save them in a PDF format for printing on campus. I have used OO for 3 years of uni note taking, happily.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
It seems to me like you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Just suck it up and write in a notebook. You'll spend more time on the solution to your contrived problem than paying attention in class, which is what you shoulda been doing in the first place.
http://notecase.sourceforge.net/ is really nice.
especially the tree view on the left.
Also if you dual boot, then you can use the same dat file.
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Freemind is a mind map tool written in Java. I use it on Linux and Windows. I can live without it for my day to day work... http://freemind.sf.net
I've been using LyX (http://www.lyx.org/) to take research notes for quite some time. It has all the advantages of Latex (it runs latex in the background to generate the PS, PDF, etc..) combined with a sexy GUI with floating menus for the math stuff (so you don't have to remember all of those "crazy" names) as well as letting you directly type the ones you do know by heart... All in all, the best thing since sliced bread... at least for note taking (notes in sliced bread tend to get mouldy after a couple of weeks!)
Yes, Vim for taking notes.
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:help browser
He mentioned mkdir and ln as a way to organize stuff, and insert multi-media, or any kind of elements.
Vim can conveniently be used as a file browser, try:
(that's an uppercase S), then walk around with cursor keys, use enter to edit a file or enter a directory.
Use
for more info.
All of the above recommendations clearly illustrate a common problem with a lot of Linux users. It seems that although they are quick to deride Microsoft and their software, they don't actually have the slightest clue what the software is or what it can do. Certainly they have never actually used the software so they are completely unqualified to make ANY statement at all. But, that doesn't stop them for even one second. Here's a news flash, Microsoft has advanced beyond Windows 95, which you like to use as a benchmark. Microsaoft is about to release its fourth operating system since Windows 95. It is called Vista and it is amazing!
The Microsoft OneNote software that the original poster referenced is a wickedly cool piece of software that came out in 2003. There is nothing like it in the Linux world. Nothing like it! OneNote goes far beyond recording quick thoughts in a text editor. OneNote can store, organize, format, and search notes(more accurately, information) of any kind including
OneNote is a KILLER application that Microsoft hardly even talks about. Here is a Flash demo of OneNote 2003 for the unwashed masses.
While I support users of Microsoft systems, I use Linux exclusively and resent the fact that there is a plethora of really amazing software out there which there are no Linux equivalents for and worse yet, no one working on the problem. OneNote is a great example of this. But, the zealots would rather blindly mouth off against Microsoft than realize that while they are mouthing off Microsoft IS innovating. Microsoft is creating wickedly cool software that the Linux community isn't even aware of but, is quick to deride simply because it comes from Microsoft. The original poster even went so far as to ask if someone wanted to work with him to develop something like OneNote if nothing else existed. No one has offered or commented about this. All the posts have either been flames or recommendations of software that are nothing like OneNote.
Microsoft IS innovating. You, and me, are being left behind! I am sick of it and after six years of using Linux exclusively, I am considering switching to Microsoft Vista and leaving all this BS behind. How sad is that?