Anything Else

I recently got a recommendation to use KeyNote. I have previously worked on [the development of] a note talking application called KnowIt by Michal R., for KDE. Though KnowIt is functional to the level of being useful in day to day life, but KeyNote is much closer to what I desired it to be. The real killer feature is the one click access to it, you are working on any application, just press the shortcut [mine is Ctrl-Shift-.] and it appears instantly, put down your thoughts/whatever, and press Escape, and its gone. No taskbar, no systray, no waste of any real estate. The notes are organized in multiple tabs, and within each tab you can then create a tree:



The default configuration is slightly heavy, you will have to disable a couple of toolbars from the View menu to make it look a little unintimating, but the UI and the application as a whole is extreamly configurable with lots of interesting features [support for strong encryption, configurable format for inserting date/time, configurable "formats", automatic capture of clipboard content, complete customization of eack keyboard shortcut, plugin system, special macro system, spellchecker, (external) dictionary , hyperlinking across notes, virtual notes to view/edit external file as a subnote, glossary/configurable text expansion, templates, rot13 etc etc comes packed with extensive documentation, go explore!] hidden in deep corners for the 133t users, in the true spirit of an open source project.

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