Tomboy, A Desktop Note-Taking Application With A Wiki-Like Linking System, Development Version 1.1.4 Released
Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop note-taking application for personal information management. Its interface is a notepad with a Wiki-like linking system to connect notes together. Words in the note body that match existing note titles automatically become hyperlinks, making it simple to construct a personal wiki.
Below is an example. “Book 1″ is our first note, with the word “Tomato” in the content. Then when we create a second note “Book 2″. The title is “Tomato”, Tomboy instantly finds that there is a note called “Book 1″ that contains the word “Tomato”, so it create a link in “Book 1″ linking to the new “Book 2″ automatically. Also, during writing “Book 2″, “Book 1″ was mentioned, so Tomboy creates a link to automatically there as will.
If names or note titles are changed, Tomboy will ask users if links should also be updated.
Book 1 & Book 2
Development version is meant for developers and for those who want to download and try out the latest features and improve Tomboy. This version is likely to have bugs.
Tomboy is an application for Linux and Unix; Windows and Mac OS X versions are also available.
Instructions for installing a Tomboy Windows release
- Make sure at least .NET 3.5 is installed (this should be included by default in Vista and Windows 7, but may require an additional install for Windows XP)
- Install Novell’s gtk-sharp 2.12.8 or newer.
- Restart
- Download and run Tomboy installer
- Done
Instructions for installing a Tomboy Mac release
- Install Mono for Mac OS X.
- Download the Tomboy disk image.
- Open the disk image, and drag Tomboy.app to Applications folder (due to a bug in the disk image it may be difficult to select the Tomboy.app. If so, try selecting it by dragging a square around it).
- Open Tomboy.app and Done
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